Liz Oglesby

In today's column, I tried to make an argument about data centers that takes in more of the global economic and cultural dynamic they represent. Data centers are symbols of a vision of the future, and a power structure, that we ought to recognize and bring to heel.

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

Dispatch from Guatemala: Five Alarming Trends in U.S. Immigration Detention and Removal - WOLA Following a visit to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, researchers from WOLA and the Women’s Refugee Commission traveled to Guatemala City, the capital of Central America’s largest nation, to speak with offic...

Here's a new update from our trip: this one from Guatemala, the country that receives the most US deportation flights, where many migrants tell of mistreatment and family separation during their time in US custody:

I'm reading a new book called Cuando hicimos historia (When We Made History) about the 1985 trial of the junta in Argentina. It was so improbable that the trial would take place in the immediate aftermath of the dictatorship. But they did it. And so can we.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

After the 2008 ICE raid in Postville, IA, the meat processing plant tried everything to rebuild its workforce, from guest workers to furloughed prisoners. No one stayed. The local economy collapsed. The town mayor finally said exasperatedly, “We just want our Guatemalans back!”

When most of the town of Sasabe, Sonora fled cartel violence in December 2023, they left behind their dogs. The dogs are still there; they cross back and forth across the border and volunteers feed them.

So much to be written about pets and migration/deportation. In a different context, here on the border we saw so many pets taken from families who crossed; sometimes volunteers would go from Tucson to the Yuma shelter (6hrs r/t) to pick up pets and reunite them with families.

Local immigrant rights activist Dora Rodriguez, on surviving a border crossing — and her new memoir - AZ Luminaria In the summer of 1980, Dora Rodriguez almost died in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Along with a group of 30 people, most of them having fled violence and the beginnings of a gruesome civil war ...

I spoke with Dora Rodriguez, Tucson-based immigrant activist who nearly died crossing the desert in 1980, about her memoir.

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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

NEW: On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away.

These are their stories.

Really fascinating reporting suggesting even more undisclosed third-country removals, often involving small charter jets with a few people on board.

Guatemala has a small asylum program, meant for and availed by mostly other Central Americans. It's not a terrible option for some people. But if the US starts sending large numbers of non-Guatemalans there, it raises serious issues of safety and due process.

I can't speak to how (or if) The Morning Call verified its source. Given that the story is sparking fear and confusion, I hope the paper will do a deeper dive to clarify. Things are bad enough w/out spreading rumors.

Guatemala denies that Chilean green-card holder was deported from the United States The Guatemalan government is denying reports that a U.S. authorities deported a Chilean man to the Central American country.

This story has been debunked. Re-posting it causes fear and is journalistic malpractice. apnews.com/article/trum...

After Kristi Noem went to Guatemala in June, there was discrepancy between what the US said Guatemala was going to do, and what the Guatemalan government said it agreed to do, in terms of receiving people from third countries. So it's something that needs to be monitored.

Important question. Guatemala claims it agreed to take Cent. Am. deportees to facilitate their return to their countries (i.e. US doesn't have relations with Nicaragua). That could be problematic, a "chain refoulement." So far, Guatemala says it's not receiving people from S. America or elsewhere.

Yes, it is governmental, but its current director is honorable, and Guatemala has a lot of experience receiving deportees.

It says they checked data from all the border crossings.

The story that circulated this weekend of the Chilean grandfather and green card holder from Pennsylvania supposedly deported to Guatemala is fake. This is a communique from the Guatemalan Institute of Migration, a source I trust for this data.

It's confirmed to be fake.

This case has not been reported on at all in Guatemala, which is odd.

Thank you for being on top of this.

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As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

Exclusive: El Salvador rights group flees Bukele's deepening crackdown El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's drive to consolidate his grip on power and crack down on critics and humanitarian organizations has forced a leading human rights organization to suspend operations in the country and go into exile, the group told Reuters.

I’m so sad to read this news. Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social has been doing the human rights work most needed in Bukele’s cruel El Salvador. Now forced to leave the country they love to continue in exile.
And they will continue! #heroes

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Lol. That’s “Mexican coke.”

"Leading" isn't a word I associate with the poll following, tech bro groveling Sen. Gallego. But it's never too late! More power to him on this.

It’s Linda Ronstadt Day in Tucson.

UN experts alarmed by resumption of US deportations to third countries, warn authorities to assess risks of torture GENEVA  - UN human rights experts today sounded the alarm at the human rights implications of a recent ruling by the United States’ Supreme Court that paves the way for deportations of foreign nationa...

The latest from UN experts, urging the #USA to refrain from removals to third countries, & reminding the US of its #intLaw #humanRights obligations under CAT, ICCPR & the Refugee Convention. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Claim: Federal agents in plain clothes aimed guns, handcuffed Tucson Samaritans Federal agents who were not in uniform and in an unmarked vehicle pointed guns, chased and handcuffed two Tucson Samaritans in a tense confrontation along the US-Mexico border, a court

HSI agents in plain clothes aimed assault-style rifles at two Tucson Samaritans volunteers, and detained & handcuffed them at the US-Mex border, a claim says. Gail Kocourek, 74, and Evan Spry, 22, allege intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault & false arrest. tucson.com/news/local/b...