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I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

A federal judge found that ICE agents' sworn testimony bears the hallmarks of fabrication. That is wrong, and it should alarm everyone, wherever they stand on immigration. When ICE agents lie under oath, people get locked up and deported because of it.

We need a Department to protect us from the Department of Homeland Security

Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

RAMPELL: “.. I initially assumed this must have had some boring technical explanation—until I talked to the experts and learned just how truly insane the story is.” @crampell.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/europe-gol...

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

‘Nowhere left for us’: the refugee who has known no peace since she was 10

Bill you should've seen into the future

Who could have ever predicted that someone in the Trump administration would lie?

📣Send an urgent message to your members of Congress & demand they take back the $240 billion they gave ICE and CBP: act.nilc.org/page/100389/...

We don’t talk enough about how amazing the people in the immigration advocacy-research-comms-policy ecosystem are. Every time I get a room w/ folks, I’m like, dang, everyone’s so committed and smart and working like crazy and trying to build/uphold community. This is where hope springs eternal.

Capital One closed HUNDREDS of bank accounts associated with Trump & his businesses in 2021 for "anti-money laundering reasons." Any President engaging in money laundering should be a national scandal. But in the Trump era, this news is barely a blip. Disgraceful.

I work on an issue where, fundamentally, the people who are most directly affected can’t vote. That means there actually is a moral obligation on the part of those who can to understand how things work, and what needs to be done to fix them.

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

Starting in one hour. My live conversation with journalist Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin on a decade of global migration photography begins at 10am Eastern on Substack Live. Still time to join us. austinkocher.substack.com/p/global-mig...

I knew this would happen. The conservative answer to everything is to monetize people’s pain.

Got a lot of reposts for antisemitism thoughts this morning but I’m not a professional Jew. I am a professional immigration analyst. And as a professional: pay attention to this, it’s important. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

THAT’s what it is. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it’s the “under the guise of” aspect that makes it so fucking worse somehow

$500,000 a year. The Atlantic's conservative estimate of what it costs to hold one person at Alligator Alcatraz, over 16x what Florida spends per prisoner. Detention as political theater. See the data here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...

This is criminal and the number of people who see it and are working hard at every level to stop keeps growing. At the same time there's no sign that deportations like this are slowing down. We need asking to electeds to explain publicly explain why they're using our tax dollars for this.

ICE's flight taking persecuted people from safety into a civil war is on its final leg to the Central African Republic, a country so dangerous the United States recommends all Americans avoid traveling there for any reason whatsoever. So much for supporting the people of Iran.

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

No more resource stealing excursions until you finish your healthcare homework

How is Cuba a threat? What is actually happening?

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

This is their worldview—might makes right

Congress needs to shut down the gov't until DOJ dissolves this settlement.

If you were unable to donate to our campaign because you weren’t an American citizen or even just located outside of the U.S., you CAN donate to our legal defense. (But please only do so if you’re able!) Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far: tinyurl.com/katandre

It was one of the best commencement speeches ever given.

The determination to end TPS was made illegally

There are no illegal people. There is an illegal ballroom.

Dog imitating Penguins 🤣

GO BLUE

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Protection should not depend on political cycles. The U.S. must extend TPS or build a durable pathway not dismantle a lifeline that tens of thousands of families have built their lives around. Read: theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/force...

Trans people deserve to live openly, safely, and fully every single day. Today, we honor Trans Day of Visibility. Every day, we keep fighting for dignity, safety, and the freedom to be exactly who you are. 🏳️‍⚧️

The basis of his argument is that it's wrong to take your kids out of a warzone

Paktiawal survived the Taliban. He did not survive ICE. That contrast demands a reckoning, not just about one man's death, but about the system that produced it. My full analysis and the complete dataset of detention deaths is here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

I knew there was a reason I became a bandwagon fan of this guy tonight

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel,” Joe Kent, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center wrote in a resignation letter to President Donald Trump.

Vote Kat

I feel this way too. It’s sickening.

Watch and learn GOP. AOC made three claims and all three of them are true. That’s how it’s done.

Michigan Republicans want to put a 25 foot total immunity zone around ICE officers

All faith leaders must speak out www.ncronline.org/pope-warns-t...

a "preemptive strike" on elementary school girls. dear god

WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side. Will DHS retract the prior claims?