WE WON: "This case -β perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally βyes, they do.β"
01.10.2025 00:03 β π 2508 π 649 π¬ 33 π 39
Hi, Bluesky! My name is Ashley DeAzevedo & I'm the Director of American Families United.
This is my first post π and Iβm excited to connect with everyone here.
I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.
17.09.2025 17:07 β π 119 π 44 π¬ 8 π 5
With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere - Public Books
Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose borderin...
π£οΈ New from MiSC scholar Jenna Loyd for @publicbooks.bsky.social.
The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technologyβa tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility.
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www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...
09.09.2025 14:36 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
what a win. read my story on the facility for @climateconnections.bsky.social
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...
22.08.2025 19:05 β π 33 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1
No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee πΊ
18.08.2025 23:39 β π 13223 π 3281 π¬ 199 π 101
Homeland Heritage.
15.07.2025 02:14 β π 27 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
It was an honor to give a keynote speech welcoming new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July in #Charlotte last week. My message? Immigrants (not the Dec of Independence or βnationβ or the Statue of Liberty or so-called golden door) are a beacon and what make America great
10.07.2025 09:27 β π 24 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/18/2/144/8156006?guestAccessKey=c1a70d7d-2c76-48bf-b436-99bc31cb6547
1/12 π§΅ As migration scholars, we're honored to highlight @naomipaik.bsky.social's timely "Sanctuary for All," published by @oxunipress.bsky.social for @icahdq.bsky.social. She argues: with Project 2025 threats, expansive sanctuary is crucial for all. ‡οΈ
academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
06.07.2025 22:26 β π 10 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
29.06.2025 10:54 β π 8650 π 3376 π¬ 142 π 139
Read this opening.
04.06.2025 21:16 β π 33 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0
π¨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY.
None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record β and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened.
Read the story below.
04.06.2025 19:09 β π 3531 π 1556 π¬ 69 π 63
Support
Support
Invisible Histories is doing extraordinary work to protect and preserve the queer histories of the U.S. south. They need help filling the gap produced by federal funding cuts.
invisiblehistory.org/support/
03.06.2025 03:33 β π 27 π 17 π¬ 0 π 1
Yes!! ππ»
30.05.2025 11:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
ICE turned back in Somerville
So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.
30.05.2025 03:49 β π 9237 π 3209 π¬ 278 π 301
Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing β which ICE had just had dismissed.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
30.05.2025 01:20 β π 9516 π 5796 π¬ 1052 π 849
Happy International Workers' Day, especially to migrant workers.
01.05.2025 11:34 β π 50 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts β likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating βyour paroleβ and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
12.04.2025 02:53 β π 8609 π 4789 π¬ 296 π 551
Horrific; also CBP have been murderers by design and by neglect for decades
04.04.2025 05:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Itβs time
31.03.2025 19:32 β π 211 π 63 π¬ 8 π 4
Yesterday, Palestinians located the bodies of 15 aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza. One week after two ambulances were directly shot at by the Israeli military, the bodies of these Red Crescent workers were finally found handcuffed and crushed under their ambulances, concealed in a mass grave.
31.03.2025 20:32 β π 502 π 358 π¬ 28 π 39
Statement on Palestine, Genocide, and Repression
The Department of American Indian Studies issues a statement in support of Palestine.
Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studiesβ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltierβs return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we donβt oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...
31.03.2025 01:18 β π 668 π 349 π¬ 15 π 13
Excited to share some of the things I've been working on recently in my research and thinking about on survival in these times at Bergen Community College tomorrow!
"Creating Climate Sanctuaries: Why Climate Justice Needs Immigrant and Indigenous Rights"
bergen.edu/event/creati...
27.03.2025 00:38 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Part 2 on neighbors being disappeared by the US government.
24.03.2025 00:51 β π 2706 π 1104 π¬ 18 π 48
Part 1 on neighbors being disappeared by the US government.
24.03.2025 00:48 β π 9634 π 5188 π¬ 233 π 623
Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Β Β Β Β Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers
I donβt see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.
Cowering & compromising wonβt work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
22.03.2025 17:32 β π 12552 π 3520 π¬ 416 π 206
Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law β’ Technology & Society β’ Work Law β’ Precarity
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Personal Account, Views My Own
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Executive Director of AmericanFamiliesUnited.org. Jersey girl. Blessed mom and devoted wife. Proud Catholic. βοΈ Small business owner. Believer in the sacred bond of family and the power of everyday Americans to create extraordinary change. πΊπΈ
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sociologist, race, education, immigration, neoliberalism, & the carceral state.
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Forthcoming with UC Press!
The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
Asst. Prof. History @ Colgate
Modern Latin America, esp. Mexico, migration, & childhood/youth/family
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Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la PrisiΓ³n y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). III Congreso Internacional (enero 2026): https://www.unavarra.es/congreso-historia-prision. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
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