While we were on hiatus, an alleged scandal involving President Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan made headlines. Cameron Peters for Vox provides the basic details. The Trump administration ended a federal bribery investigation into Homan. "Last year, . . . `border czar' Tom Homan was reportedly recorded accepting $50,
This summer, immprof Beth Zilberman introduced me to an amazing teaching tool: Pecha Kucha. Pecha Kucha is a presentation format involving a slide deck with 20 slides each of which is visible for 20 seconds. Beth told me about how she uses Pecha Kucha in the classroom. She has students
The U.S. immigration detention system is the largest in U.S. history and will only continue to grow as ICE receives a windfall of $45 billion for immigrant detention alone. Within this ever-increasing population, pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women represent one of the most vulnerable groups, requiring specialized medical
Over the weekend, I read this compelling WaPo coverage of the (not-yet-effectuated) deportation of Lue Yang. Yang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. As an infant, he came to the United States with his family. They arrived as political refugees from Laos–members of the Hmong diaspora. At
A team of researchers recently unveiled an amazing website, Mapping Deportations. Here is how it describes itself: Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement
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Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation. President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator to terrorize American citizens… — Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 25, 2025