Felipe Navarro

Quote from Felipe Navarro, CGRS Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy, reads: "The U.S. government should be working with our regional neighbors to defend human rights and the rule of law. Instead, the Trump administration is collaborating with Bukele to violate our laws and evade accountability, condemning people to indefinite abuse and imprisonment in another country, then falsely claiming it is powerless to redress the grave harm it has caused. We urge the administration to immediately end this blatantly illegal practice and return to the United States every single person disappeared to the CECOT."

Today Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele visited the White House. There Bukele and Trump doubled down on their illegal scheme that has resulted in the disappearances of over 280 people to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison.

Our full statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/bukele-...

Designed to support practitioners & decision-makers, this Toolkit was developed by @cgrsasylum.bsky.social, Kaldor Centre (UNSW), Essex Law School & Human Rights Centre, w/ @unhcr.org

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🌎 New! A first-of-its-kind global Toolkit on international protection and displacement in the context of climate change & disasters.

It provides clear, practical guidance on how refugee & human rights law applies—debunking myths and clarifying protections under existing frameworks.

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Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims? We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect people.

Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims? My latest article explains ... theconversation.com/climate-impa...

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Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

NEW: Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, has such a colorful history that experts doubt he’d pass a background test typically required for access to sensitive US government systems:

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As the U.S. gov works to dismantle protections, Latin America moves forward. The Chile Declaration & Plan of Action lay out a blueprint for addressing displacement challenges in the region, including those driven by climate change & disasters. Read more here: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/pub...

Noting that Elon Musk attacked the Lutheran Church's work providing services, and that JD Vance attacked Catholic Bishops for their work with immigrants. Fair to say that this administration is one of the most hostile to religion and religious freedom that we have seen in recent memory.

'We didn't steal': Trump's military deportations continue, raising concern of degrading treatment President Trump's deportations on military planes continue as countries in Latin America raise concern for the dignity and rights of their people

“I don't feel that it was right that they brought us a plane like that.”

A fourth military deportation flight flew out from El Paso on Thursday. On board were 80 Guatemalans. These flights are part of a campaign to dehumanize migrants.

My story for The El Paso Times, a friend in Guate helped

Wow.

At WH press briefing just now, press sec Karoline Leavitt was asked how many immigrants arrested by ICE under the Trump admin have criminal records.

Leavitt: "All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws, and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes."

Memorandum from the Acting Deputy Attorney General Subject: Interim Policy Changes Regarding Charging, Sentencing, And Immigration Enforcement Page 3 The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) and the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program shall establish national initiatives to provide focused resources and attention to immigration-related prosecutions at the federal, state, and local levels. OCDETF and PSN will focus on facilitating access by U.S. Attorney's Offices to existing structures in which the Justice Department participates, such as Joint Task Force Vulcan, which targets MS-13 and will be expanded to target TdA, and Joint Task Force Alpha, which targets human trafficking. The regional OCDETF Strike Forces shall prioritize the investigation and prosecution of immigration offenses, including by requiring OCDETF-funded AUSAs to devote significant time and attention to the investigation and prosecution of these crimes. The new OCDETF and PSN national initiatives shall also prioritize enhanced statistical tracking of these efforts. Pending implementation of the Homeland Security Task Forces announced by President Trump on January 20, 2025, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces are directed to coordinate with DHS, as well as state and local members, to assist in the execution of President Trump's immigration-related initiatives. The FBI, DEA, ATF, USMS, and BOP shall review their files for identifying information and/or biometric data relating to non-citizens located illegally in the United States. All such information and data shall be disclosed to DHS, for the sole purpose of facilitating appropriate removals, enforcement actions, and immigration-related investigations and prosecutions, unless the agency possessing the information and data determines that a particular disclosure would compromise a significant law enforcement investigation and the U.S.

How the HECK is it not a nationwide scandal that Trump told federal law enforcement to divert resources away from drug trafficking and terrorism cases to instead prioritize prosecuting undocumented immigrants for living here?

They screamed about fentanyl and then did this!

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All regional relations is now migration dominated.

El Salvador is not a safe country and Colombia is providing refuge to millions of Venezuelans.

But here we are.

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It's going to be a loooong four years.

Unfortunately for Colombia, in our unipolar world, there's no choice but to obey the lone superpower. There are no rival powers or blocs like China, Russia, or BRICS just waiting to welcome Colombia with open arms.

Oh wait, yes, there absolutely are. That seems like a likely consequence of today.

🚨New Resource in Spanish: Trump’s return brings executive actions targeting asylum seekers & migrants—with impacts across Latin America & the Caribbean.

This memo unpacks severe asylum restrictions, border militarization, & more.

✍️ By @cgrsasylum.bsky.social cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/pub...

Photo of mom and child with sign that reads, "YA BASTA DE DEPORTACIONES"; Text reads, "CGRS will defend asylum, challenge cruel policies. Trump’s first set of extreme executive actions seek to destroy all pathways to safety for refugees: • Shutdown of asylum at border • End to parole, CBP One programs • Reinstatement of Remain in Mexico • Family separations • Mass detention • Resettlement ban"

Quote from CGRS Director of Litigation Melissa Crow reads, "The president’s first set of executive actions recycles the unlawful asylum policies of his first term, many of which the courts struck down, and all of which made communities on both sides of the border less safe. The president has offered no real solutions to the challenges at our southern border. He has instead doubled down on racist fearmongering and tried-and-failed policies of cruelty. We are ready to take this administration to court and use every tool at our disposal to halt these destructive measures. They are designed only to sow fear, punish immigrants and refugees, and destroy all legal pathways to safety for people fleeing persecution and torture."

This week the Trump administration announced a set of extreme anti-immigrant policies that will gut access to asylum and exacerbate suffering and chaos at the border.

We're ready to use every tool at our disposal to halt these destructive measures.

Our statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/cgrs-de...

It's astounding to see so many ineffective policies—policies that either do nothing or actively harm countless people, all while helping no one.

Jesus was a refugee in Egypt
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“I was a stranger and you invited me in”
Just off the top of my head

Sheinbaum's remarks raise A LOT of questions. The strategy of a humanitarian response followed by repatriations sure sounds like chain refoulement.

Day 1 of Trump's destructive force targets:

- Trans and gender nonconforming folks

- Refugees and asylum seekers

- Border communities

- Immigrants

- Our planet

USA out of the Paris #Climate Accord (again).

A victory for #corruption, #stupidity & #injustice.

All backed by the same tech billionaires we keep hearing are green champions.

I feel like EO on curtailing birthright citizenship was deliberately written to include children of temporarily legally present parents so as to get SCOTUS to compromise on children of unauthorized parents. Absolutely disgusting.

Ruben Gallego has claimed that the Ken Paxton Empowerment Act, aka the Laken Riley Act, "would exempt Dreamers brought here illegally as children, which is not true."

Update today: at 3:00, there will be a cloture vote (60 vote threshold) to move to debate on the Laken Riley Act, which will succeed.

There may then be efforts to amend the bill, after which there will be a vote to close debate (60 vote threshold). It's here where Dems can still stop the bill.

Republicans look to finally push through Laken Riley bill with new GOP trifecta Republicans are stepping on the gas and renewing bills Democrats ignored in the last Congress, the first of which being the Laken Riley Act.

John Fetterman just became a full sponsor of the Laken Riley Act, which would mandate detention for any noncitizen even *arrested* for a theft offense (even if not convicted) and give state AGs sweeping and privileged private enforcement powers in federal court. www.foxnews.com/politics/rep...

Wow, thanks for flagging, Tom. I've reported it too.