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In Good Company: Nine Immigration Conversations You Might Have Missed This Week
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (865+ words) Austin Kocher | Substack In Good Company: Nine Immigration Conversations You Might Have Missed This Week A Friday medley of ICYMI delights: my Documented Q&A on immigration data, deported veterans on The Raid podcast, a St. Louis enforcement dashboard with…...
The British Are Coming! UK Journalist Tom Latchem on Exposing Stephen Miller's Cruel Immigration Policies in a Post-Truth White House
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (428+ words) Tom Latchem is the Lead Global Correspondent for The Daily Beast and the writer behind the Substack Punch Up, where he covers the Trump administration's immigration machine with the speed and bite of a Fleet Street veteran who spent decades…...
Nayna Gupta and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the Core Principles of a Fair and Functional Immigration Enforcement System
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (235+ words) Nayna described what the framework set out to do. See the original event announcement here. Each principle identifies a specific failure mode in how enforcement currently operates and proposes a concrete standard against which any legislative alternative could be tested....
Rethinking Interior Enforcement: A Live Conversation with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick and Nayna Gupta of the American Immigration Council
1+ week, 1+ day ago (251+ words) Nanya and Aaron generously agreed to talk with us about their work next Tuesday, June 9, at 1: 00 PM Eastern. We'll talk about the essential building blocks of the report as well as behind-the-scenes question, including: what drove the collapse of public…...
"Migration isn't a problem to be solved." Amelia Frank-Vitale on Borders, Caravans, and the Banal Violence of Deportation
1+ week, 2+ day ago (291+ words) There are plenty of places to get immigration news, but there aren't many places where you can join a conversation between two researchers who've spent their careers studying migration. If you think this kind of rigor deserves a wider audience,…...
Delaney Hall Detention Center: A Data Profile
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (430+ words) The contract was signed on April 2, 2025. You can get a copy of part of the contract between ICE and GEO Group from Detention Reports (DHDFNJ_2025-05-09. pdf). Data from Detention Reports shows that Delaney Hall is the largest ICE detention facility on…...
"If a service member is good enough to fight and die for this country, they should be good enough to live in this country:" Danitza James w/ Repatriate Our Patriots
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (522+ words) Danitza served two tours in Iraq, including as a 50 cal machine gunner. No one asked about her citizenship, she said. "we were all wearing the same uniform. We all had the American flag on our shoulders and nobody cared, right?...
"Without immigration, we're not a superpower:" Margaret Stock on why immigrants are key to U. S. national security
3+ week, 1+ day ago (701+ words) When Margaret Stock accepted her first pro bono immigration case as a young lawyer fresh out of Harvard, she was told it would take ten hours. "400 hours later, I was an immigration lawyer." The government had "behaved badly" and Margaret…...
"America is an Aspirational Country": Chris Purdy on the Overlooked Asset of Veteran Leaders
3+ week, 2+ day ago (375+ words) See the full line-up of this week's speakers here: When I asked Chris to help us think about the connection between veterans and immigrants, he said: "I served alongside immigrants. The average veteran has a very similar story." His own…...
Happening Today (May 20): UCDC Hosts Congressional Briefing on Protecting Workers, Families, and Public Trust
3+ week, 2+ day ago (183+ words) Austin Kocher | Substack Happening Today (May 20): UCDC Hosts Congressional Briefing on Protecting Workers, Families, and Public Trust Join me along with Profs Seth Holmes and Alfredo Gonz'lez for a briefing today on Capitol Hill coordinated by UCDC President Tanya Golash-Boza....