Sarah R. Meiners, PhD

Robert Gasser (MIL) @ TB: 6 IP 1 H 0 ER 1 BB 3 K 75 pitches - Left with Brewers ahead 10-0.

Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff. n.pr/48eAvU9

Story is updated with attorneys’ emergency filing, video from activists who watched the plane board yesterday, and news that the plane has taken ooff. Still awaiting response from the judge. 🤷🏻‍♀️ prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

BREAKING: Fifth Circuit, on a 10-7 vote, says no bond hearing for detained immigrants pending removal proceedings, no matter how long they're detained — reversing panel decision and district courts. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

🎧 My pleasure to talk with Jamila Michener & Neil Lewis. You can find Futures Forum podcast on all platforms. We discussed my book TROOP MOVEMENTS — the links between war and justice, from the 1940s to 1960s to 2020s. While it's a serious topic — this is a fun & accessible chat! Check it out...

On behalf of Paul Lombardo at GSU Law, keep your eye on buckvbell.com/index.html. Prof Lombardo is compiling documents and materials he's been collecting for decades and they will be available soon. This will a valuable online resource for those of who study eugenics and the law! Sneak peek here.

American Samoa's government opposes the US plan to initiate deep-sea mining near its waters, raising concerns over environmental impacts.

Smuggler is out today! We were first drawn to Bob Boulé’s story by the landmark Supreme Court case (Egbert v Boule) and the quirky bed and breakfast directly on the US-Canada border, but what we found was something different and more interesting...

New article by Amanda C Demmer on "Suffering and Sovereignty: Moral Authority and Diplomatic Norms in the 1940s and 1970s" academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

In this explosive follow up to the story about the American Historical Association's use of DC lobbyists to silence AHA member Palestine advocacy, we have this: AHA is conducting a witchhunt of its Council. Loyalty oaths. Lawyers. Threats. Authoritarian behavior. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

New: Mahmoud Khalil is asking the Supreme Court to review his case. He's challenging a court ruling that essentially deprived immigrants like him of the right to habeas corpus, forcing them to possibly remain in detention for years — even if the point of their detention was to punish their speech.

🧵1/3 We've just released "Architecture of Cruelty," the first major legal and empirical analysis of the U.S. third country removal system based on 18 months of research with @forbidden-stories.bsky.social #DeportationProject: 📖 Read the full report: humanrights.berkeley.edu/publications...

Congratulations to our IEHS members @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @julimwest.bsky.social for receiving awards from the Western History Association!!

New book from IEHS member, Juan Ignacio Mora: Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) uncpress.org/978146969385...

happy John Brown day!

BREAKING: Milwaukee Brewers sweep Los Angeles Dodgers to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS I FUCKING LOVE YOU WISCONSIN FOREVER

Join us for a screening & discussion of Harsh Legacy, a documentary marking the 30th anniversary of IIRIRA—the 1996 law that dramatically expanded immigration enforcement & deportation. Date: Nov 9, 2026 Time: 4- 6 p.m. Location: UMN Law School, Mondale Hall Rm 25 RSVP: z.umn.edu/HarshLegacy

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff knew in 2024 that a student had reported being gang raped at a fraternity house, but never followed up to learn what had happened to her or whether any of the accused students had been punished. https://to.pbs.org/4ypJJaO

Congrats to @renatakeller.bsky.social on winning the Friedrich Katz prize from the @historians.org! The first of what I expect to be many prizes for the Interconnections series at @uncpress.bsky.social. @juliairwin.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social 🍾🎉

Twenty-eight years ago today, after sustaining a vicious antigay assault, Matt Shepard succumbed to his injuries in a Colorado hospital. He should still be with us, as should so many other LGBTQ+ people lost not only to sudden, brutal attacks like this one, but also to the slow violence of hatred.

Many stories of illegal detention (while still in active TPS status) and just brutal treatment in detention. People so brutalized that they ask to be deported— one man asked every week — but remained detained for 6 additional weeks! He could have been put on several previously deportation flights!

And so many of them deported without any documents— with basically this fake form that DHS made up and the Haitian “government” agreed to accept — which was just an expulsion paper. They’ve got no ids.

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.

Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.

Publication day!

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

The written version of my Bernath Lecture is now available! Read on to learn more about the intersection of war, human rights, humanitarianism, NGOs, and moral authority! You'll also get sneak peak of the subject of my current in-progress biography, Ginetta Sagan. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

This week was the 30th anniversary of IIRIRA, the 1996 law that laid much of the groundwork for today's mass deportation agenda. So this week's edition of This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers does something a little different. 🧵

No refugee fleeing religious persecution was resettled in the U.S. in fiscal year 2026 through July, per World Relief and Open Doors US, likely the first such year in at least a quarter century. austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries that are not identified in their removal orders. It also plans to hear full arguments on the case. n.pr/3U2Gnwh

US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z

My conversation with Jill Williams of @acaciajustice.org and Becky Wolozin of the National Center for Youth Law on habeas petitions for children in ORR custody is now up. Here are the CliffsNotes of what you need to know. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-child-s...

Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

New book forthcoming next week from @wwnorton.com: Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control by Kelly Lytle Hernández wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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.

📣 NYC people — I have an event on September 24 at NYU. I'm on booktour for my new book, TROOP MOVEMENTS. On Sep 24 (a Thursday) at 6pm at NYU — I'll speak in conversation with Adrian De Leon and Ruth Milkman. RSVP today — and come through on Sep24! ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

I can’t believe the Babadook tweet lady just won an Emmy lmao never tell me online isn’t real

***Book Reviewers for the Journal of American Ethnic History ( JAEH, @illinoispress.bsky.social ) Needed*** If you are interested in reviewing books for the JAEH, please complete the volunteer reviewer form: iehs.org/review-books...

I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...

As part of its mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration is secretly deporting immigrants to countries that they have no ties to.

my latest: Massachusetts is one of the safest states for trans people—but multiple hospitals preemptively ended youth trans care over Trump admin threats to cut fed funding. on Wed, trans activists took their HRT at a govt office and refused to leave without a commitment to fight those hospitals.

My new book is out this month! “Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II” — by Tejasvi Nagaraja Buy it! Get in touch with me — if you have any ideas?: * book review * book-tour event * assigning it to teach * interview or podcast Thanks — Stay tuned!