Latino USA: ‘We’re Leaving’: Choosing to Self-Deport Under Trump 2.0

Kevin R. Johnson

02 Jun 2026 — 1 min read

Caitlin Dickerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The Atlantic, is one of the leading voices on immigration coverage for more than a decade. In this episode on Latino USA, Dickerson talks about her recent reporting exploring why some mixed-status families are choosing to “self-deport,” what that actually looks like and why we should all consider the impact of what gets left behind. Later, she breaks down the latest on what children and their parents are experiencing in the Dilley family detention facility in Texas.

Austin Kocher: Getting Our Bearings in an Age of Mass Deportation

The Baseline, a new monthly column on Documented by ImmigrationProf blogger Austin Kocher, explores the impact of rising immigration enforcement. The first installment begins "We are living through one of the most intense periods of immigration enforcement in American history. "

A Reckoning in Springfield: A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become

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Immigration Article of the Day: Affidavits Are Forever: Public Charge, Domestic Violence, and the Enforceability of Immigration Law's Affidavit of Support by Veronica Thronson

Affidavits Are Forever: Public Charge, Domestic Violence, and the Enforceability of Immigration Law's Affidavit of Support by Veronica Thronson, 41 Yale Law & Policy Review 69 (2022) Abstract Part I of this Article provides a brief background on the central role that family relationships play in the immigration

ICE Put Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

In a class action lawsuit related to the DHS action "Operation Catch of the Day" in Maine, newly released documents reveal that ICE agents took photos of immigration protestors and fed them into a Palantir surveillance database. (See, e.g., Yahoo! News; Wired Magazine). I became aware of

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Austin Kocher: Getting Our Bearings in an Age of Mass Deportation

A Reckoning in Springfield: A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become

Immigration Article of the Day: Affidavits Are Forever: Public Charge, Domestic Violence, and the Enforceability of Immigration Law's Affidavit of Support by Veronica Thronson

ICE Put Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database