Mario Bruzzone

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

If your political strategy rests on ignoring what Trump is doing to immigrants & refugees, then you are not only morally off but you’re also leaving tens of millions of votes on the table.

What does “democratic revival” mean? (Not a troll—I agree US democracy is in crisis/freefall)

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

WOW. Judge Kelly takes the Trump admin to task for their outrageous effort to deport children in the dead of the night. Not only does he say their justification "crumbled like a house of cards," he also says the admin was not engaging in "conduct ... that reflect[s] good faith."

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

Trump’s D.C. Show of Force Diverts Agents and Prosecutors From Casework

“Agents who should be investigating financial fraud and public corruption aren’t doing that work."

Seems like this would be a positive to Trump and friends.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

WATCH: MPD collaborates with ICE D.C. used to limit police collaboration with immigration enforcement. This video investigation shows how much that's changed.

D.C. used to limit police collaboration with immigration enforcement. This video investigation from @bellingcat.com and @evidentmedia.org shows how much that's changed. 51st.news/dc-police-wo...

The Trump-appointed federal judge “told Justice Department attorney Sarah Welch that he was ‘struck’ by the Justice Department’s briefing, which had conceded its representation that the removals were at family members’ request was false.”

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.

I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.

I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Thanks for writing this, Jeff

Jerry Nadler has had immigrants’ backs his whole career. His office in Congress has been working hard on positive immigration legislation for decades. I’m sad to see him go but I can’t help but feel glad he is able to leave in good health and with time to enjoy retirement.

I have been on vacation so haven’t followed this case, but it would be reasonable that (1) the kids were in a number of different ORR shelters before ICE picked them up, and (2) now ICE has to return the kids to those same shelters

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

I am not a sports fan - though I am the former head of policy at ICE - but I don't see how watching a match could be worth:
- being abducted on the street by a masked man or armed solider
- detained indefinitely without access to counsel
- deported to Uganda or South Sudan

Do you? #FIFAworldcup

I understand the U.S. is about to host the #FIFAWorldCup and shortly thereafter, the Summer Olympics.

If you are a non-U.S. citizen, you would be INSANE to come here to watch sports.

America is not safe for tourists.

Fully agree — Pew could have kept the methods the same while avoiding misleading terms in this year’s edition

My first thought was that Pew did this for continuity’s sake (ie to match with prior methods and so to allow like-like comparison). I haven’t had a chance to confirm though

The political juggernaut that elected Ds and institutions alike cower in front of

ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year Internal documents reveal ICE’s plans to double immigrant detention to more than 100,000 beds, including new detention centers for families.

“There is no humane way to detain families.” — Neha Desai, NCYL

Children in family detention face trauma, malnourishment & medical problems — some held for months. Neha spoke with @washingtonpost.com on the urgent need to end the govt’s detention of families.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is Lou Bega erasure

Oh and — you can’t just read a question and analyze it for bias. What these folks read/hear is not what respondents read/hear. The implied process (which I suspect is only bluster / bullshit) would be a perversion of pretesting

Just to yes-and: and on many issues people don’t have static beliefs — what they believe changes based on what leaders say!

A related problem is that what people (say that they) care about does not align with how they vote on many issues. Children’s issues come to mind first but there are a bunch

No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared A newly viral chart showing native-born employment levels is a multiple-count data felony. Focus instead on the native-born unemployment rate.

an interesting statistical deep dive: jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-...

Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children

Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.

Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You have to subtract the people who leave though (the “churn”). Lots of people leave every year! Even when Mexican migration was net zero in the 2010s, the churn was still 400k+ just for that population.

Fwiw I have never seen a credible estimate of 15 million undocumented anywhere. The highest figure ever is ~12.2 million around 2007, we’ve been hovering around estimates of 11-11.5 million more recently in credible demography.

15 million is like 40% higher than that!