There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana
(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)
Trump’s mass deportation as forever war. Unfortunately fitting analogy. The militarized War on Drugs is too. With all the problems that entails.
Except terrorism and drugs are real dangers, and immigrants are not.
In other words, the problem isn’t just ICE. It’s the growing ICE-industrial complex.
It's time to end for-profit private prisons.
Corporations shouldn’t be incentivized and make billions of dollars off putting people behind bars.
I’m leading the charge to end this broken and inhumane system.
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
Watch this.
Louder for the people in the back, this was never about illegal immigration but about stopping legal nonwhite immigration
Minnesota still needs your attention
The Migrant's Jail by @briannanofil.bsky.social is very on point as well, speaking to local communities and their role in shaping or resisting detention centers and the practices of detention.
Reminds me of the work of Patricia Macias-Rojas, who followed the money for her first book, From Deportation to Prison, and showed how the process of criminalization and immigration enforcement reshaped detention and deportation policy in dramatic ways.
"The Hagerstown facility is the first of what leaked documents suggest could be a network of up to 25 detention sites under consideration nationwide. Six other facilities have been purchased in Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona." Where is the money coming from? And who is profiting?
@projectsaltbox.bsky.social is doing phenomenal work digging up data that is not readily accessible for most of us.
If you're in Baltimore and the DMV area, please join us on April 17 for a timely discussion about immigration history and law. A symposium commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Page Act: (schedule) history.jhu.edu/event/schoul...
Recent PhDs! Here's an excellent postdoc opportunity in a super cool city with some pretty awesome colleagues.
krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
Mass deportation is not inherently more practical, feasible, or realistic than open borders, but the collective imagination in this country can picture one much more easily than the other. There is a politics to what we see as im/possible.
