Chris Levesque

I don’t care if the man had a gun. By all accounts he was disarmed & on the ground when he was shot 5 times. You don’t get to shoot people unarmed on the ground point blank 5 times. I know this sounds crazy under fascism but standards for law enforcement should be higher not lower than civilians!

For @thenation.com, I wrote about Alice Driver’s book, The Death and Life of the American Worker, about Mexican and Central immigrant organizing in the poultry processing plants of Arkansas—an important contribution to US labor journalism: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

In a new article with Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock, and Weston Ley, we find growing double penalties in crime-based removal proceedings, racial disparities in detention and removal outcomes, and more favorable outcomes for non-white immigrants with same-race judges: minnesotalawreview.org/article/raci...

ICE camping outside immigration courts to arrest people is one way to get around court proceedings & expedite removals. And it's a double-edged sword -- if this scares people away from court they'll be up for automatic removal anyway, @mattcameron.bsky.social said theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in a “timely manner” citizens who were being deported by the Trump administration. Follow updates. nyti.ms/42wKSAx

My discussion with Gustavo Solis for KPBS/NPR: "When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives." Read/listen/watch here: www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Higher education should absolutely *not* act this way in light of the graduate student arrests we’ve seen at Tufts, Alabama, Minnesota, Columbia, and a growing number of schools. And yet here we are. Faculty and admin must work together to value and protect our students.

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

White House declaring that any Venezuelan man/teenager 14 years or older, who (the government says) is a member of Tren de Aragua, and who isn’t a citizen or green card holder, are “subject to immediate apprehension, detention and removal.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

Mahmoud Khalil is being held in an ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, according to ICE’s Detainee Locator webpage. Thank you to @petrulis.bsky.social for flagging this. locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search

In 1993, the Supreme Court said that immigration court proceedings are “domestic procedures ” which are not relevant outside the United States, specifically as relates to people detained at Guantánamo Bay. So I just can’t see how it would be legal to use Gitmo for “domestic” ICE detention purposes.

It's a real honor that @prismreports.bsky.social was able to publish this piece today by the brilliant Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, who argues that "election postmortems that do not address xenophobia do not get to the heart of the 2024 election." Please read and share widely.

Trump's early moves on immigration policy signal that DHS is likely to detain and forcibly remove more migrants without a criminal history just like during Trump’s first term. Read more at Immigration Law Unhinged open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/c...

Our story on the stunning firings at the U.S. immigration court: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

This is absolutely wild, and a horrible loss at just about the worst time.

In sad news, TRAC, the immigration court data portal which has been a vital resource for years, appears to be completely down following its departure from Syracuse University. It's unclear when (or if) it will come back.

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At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

I’m at the Senate Judiciary hearing on Mass Deportations with @njaij.bsky.social. 🧵🪡Thread incoming:

Check out the latest DHS Climate Change & Health Research Hub post, which discusses the importance of supplementing spatial analyses with qualitative methods! tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...

Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on impact of mass deportations. Watch livestream Tuesday December 10 at 10am: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

Me when starting to read this book review: "Why would any sane person want to read a whole book about principal component analysis" Me after finishing this excellent book review: "WTF inject it right into my veins" loreley.one/2024-09-pca/

In a new open-access article in Population and Development Review, our team provides a much-needed empirical starting point for future research on the globalization of international migration. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #sociology #demography #migration

Yesterday was Bessie’s gotcha day. Here she is .02 seconds before a cheeseburger magically disappears.

Hey folks, help me out with this one? I'm putting together a starter pack for socio-legal scholars for @slsauk.bsky.social and others to use. Let me know if you or anyone else should be added! go.bsky.app/T5W1tVv

Hey tech wizards and nerds 🧙‍♂️ this holiday season, we've got a resource you can share to help answer tech questions your family and friends might be asking you around the dinner table.

“Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator?” is a question I didn’t originally have on my bingo card, but it’s definitely going into the syllabus for my upcoming Law, Tech, & Society seminar.

We’re among the organizations urging an immediate halt to the Department of Homeland Security's use of non-compliant AI systems, which could be used to facilitate civil rights violations, mass detentions, and deportations under the incoming administration. abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

Guatemalan exchange visa holders came to the US to pursue an internship at a Nebraska pork producer. Instead, they were put to work without training cleaning barns, assisting with sow birthing, and tagging new-born piglets, they claim in a lawsuit alleging exploitation of the J-1 visa program.

For next semester’s undergraduate crimmigration law class, I just added to the syllabus this excellent op-ed from @daralind.bsky.social.

Timeline cleanse: Bessie meeting enemy (?) goats in Kentucky.

Had the pleasure of reading early drafts of this. It’s a GREAT piece. Go read it.

Just found out I'm going to be presenting a new paper at @popassocamerica.bsky.social this April on racial/ethnic disparities in temporary release from immigration detention, along with my co-authors Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock, and Weston Ley. Here's the abstract:

Finally moving on from Twitter and hoping to reconnect with folks in greener pastures (and bluer skies I suppose). Hi! Thought I’d share a new paper for my first post, but for the algorithm here’s Bessie instead 🐶