Graeme Blair

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

An injunction that barred indiscriminate immigration sweeps in the Central Valley was lifted in August. Social media has recently been flooded with videos showing a growing ICE presence, and advocates say at least 100 people have been detained @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...

We know our community is concerned about reports of increased ICE presence in LA. Federal agents seen in DTLA on Oct. 8, were part of an operation by LAPD to make arrests tied to alleged high-level narcotics sales. According to the LAPD, it was not immigration enforcement. Here's what we know.

🗓️ Access to government documents is essential for advocates trying to change the criminal legal system. But requesting records can be intimidating, as agencies use jargon & loopholes to throw you off. In this webinar, we'll demystify records requests 👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"The federal government risks losing a large segment of the $26bn in payroll taxes from unauthorized immigrants who help to support the US social security fund that pays out to American seniors – while not being able to access those benefits themselves."

Children detained for long stretches are usually sent to Dilley. But the Trump administration has also held children and families for shorter stints in locations that lawyers say are “black boxes,” where families and lawyers cannot find them. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/i...

Martin Soto was "detained by federal agents in Feb. while buying diapers for his two young children. Though he has no criminal record, he spent eight consecutive months in ICE detention, incl. several months in solitary confinement—retribution, his wife Gabriela said, for his role as an organizer."

We're launching a dashboard to track ICE arrests, detentions and deportations of children. The numbers and charts on this page represent our best estimates of how many children under the age of 18 have been swept into the immigration enforcement system. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/c...

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Please do not make puns in your academic article titles about ICE 😔

States with the strongest protections have fewer ICE arrests, and those with wishy-washy policy like New Jersey have arrest rates similar to collaborator states like Florida or Georgia.

New analysis of ICE detainers and arrests in 2026 with @bson.bsky.social for @prisonpolicy.org shows that law enforcement collusion tends to expand ICE arrests, and that the mass deportation project falters in places that resist. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/10...

"In the past, most unaccompanied minors in ORR custody were children who had recently crossed the US-Mexico border by themselves—not kids who arrived with a parent and had been living in the country for years." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal building.

We documented 40 cases of LGBT migrants who were deported by the US to third countries in Africa that either criminalize same-sex relations or have been described by the State Department as hostile to LGBT people. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

NEW: Dozens of Wisconsin sheriffs have rushed to help ICE's deportation agenda by joining the 287(g) program. In 2 swing counties Trump narrowly won, this has now become a campaign issue. And Democrats are running for sheriff in Sauk and Winnebago on a promise to quit the program:

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

Today Refugees International and Global Strategic Litigation Council published a report based on months of research and interviews with third country nationals removed by U.S. to Costa Rica. Have a read! www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

Using data from The Deportation Project, L.A. TACO broke down the nearly 4,000 logged apprehensions in L.A. County by neighborhood and city. The full story: lataco.com/ice-kidnappi... By @eltragon.bsky.social

🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀

We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.

NEW: The Supreme Court, over the objections of the 3 liberal justices, grants a stay in the D.V.D. litigation, authorizing the Trump admin to resume third country removals without any notice to people being sent to countries they've never been to. The Court also agrees to hear the case in December.

It's really that simple: the federal government want "Jewish" to be defined as holding specific policy attitudes

Maybe my brain is broken, but I don’t understand how anyone is talking about anything other than the Google satellite images of the south of Gaza. I have felt disassociated from humanity all day.

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

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When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.

A new report from the ACLU and Amnesty International USA says universities like UCLA violated free speech laws and imposed severe punishments on students, faculty and staff who expressed support for Palestinian rights. laist.com/news/educati...

Horrific: “In one case, a 16-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted by a gang member in Honduras and feared that if she returned, she would be assaulted, kidnapped and enslaved by the gang. The court stated that those fears are ‘not a basis for protection in the U.S.’ and ordered her removal.”

We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

Happy to share a new report on immigration enforcement in Los Angeles since 2025. deportationdata.org/analysis/imm... If you don't care about LA like I do, we've made it possible to adapt each figure to your area of interest (click "Open this chart in data explorer" on each chart).

A really great analysis from @graemeblair.com on migration enforcement in Los Angeles over the first 20 months of the second Trump administration. deportationdata.org/analysis/imm...

Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.

Check out the LA Times story on the faculty response to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk’s statement seeking to distance the university from a law school symposium marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 (which we sponsored). www.latimes.com/california/s...

You can’t just deport people to third countries because you paid off that country’s government for an assurance no rights violations will occur. That’s just not what US law says and not how the Refugee and Torture conventions work. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I was on 1A this morning on third country deportations. Points: They are cruel, coercive, unnecessary, undermine due process, undermine refugee & torture conventions, disconnect foreign policy from support for human rights and democracy, use tax dollars to separate families & send refugees to harm.

NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa

A federal judge just enjoined one of the US Administration’s sharpest attacks on international students. The ruling references research by me & my stellar co-authors six times. Facts matter. Facts are necessary for democracy, accountability, and the rule of law. Research delivers them.