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Thank you @laloalcaraz1 Lalo Alcaraz for your political cartoons! You provide us with a critical lens on the USA from the Latino perspective. Can’t wait for the Pachuco comic book series!
#vivalaraza

Gracias, Ivy 🙏🏼

This happened at the Harlingen, Texas airport over the weekend.
The RGV is ground zero for new tactics to remove immigrants and asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, through extra-judicial means.

Deep gratitude for the Immigrant Worker Project (IWP) of Canton, Ohio and collaborators: Michele Leiby, Nancy Powers, Robert Gitter, Dosinda Alvite, and Jeff Stewart. Stay tuned for our edited book project which we hope to publish soon! 8/x

This paper advances the concepts of political socialization and cultural citizenship by including the unique experiences of undocumented Latinxs who continue to be subjected to racist rhetoric and discrimination. I hope you’ll read it! 7/x

The 2nd finding relates to cultural citizenship. Alejandra states that, “We’re ‘illegals,’ but we have rights! We don’t do anything bad, we’re simply working.” She (and others) interviewees called for basic rights to legal protections, respect, and dignity. 6/x

The title of the paper comes from an interview in which a Mexican im/migrant states that “Discrimination is rampant. Trump is the head of all this [situation of immigrants].” Alejandra (and others) assigned responsibility to Trump for the discrimination they faced in public. 5/x

Interview data from the 2018 Immigrant Worker Project Survey (IWPS), a community-based advocacy research project, shows how Latina/o immigrants’ critical interpretations of racist elite rhetoric & experiences with discrimination are a form of political socialization. 4/x

I argue that periods of elevated immigration enforcement and high-profile anti-immigrant rhetoric can catalyze expressions of Latinx cultural citizenship in which im/migrants of precarious statuses make rights claims and assert their belonging. 3/x

RQs: 1) how did the anti-Latinx/anti-im/migrant rhetoric of the first Trump Administration shape Latinx im/migrants’ political socialization? 2) How did this political socialization experience contribute to politicized group consciousness and cultural citizenship? 2/x

“Trump es la cabeza de todo esto”: rhetoric, racism, and the political socialization of Latinx immigrants How do immigrants learn about the political system and power hierarchies of their countries of settlement under adverse conditions? As a consequence of their migration experiences, undocumented imm...

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my latest article in Politics, Groups, and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social titled, “‘Trump es la cabeza de todo esto’: Rhetoric, Racism, and the Political Socialization of Latinx Immigrants” doi.org/10.1080/2156...

The administration tried to do this to children in the middle of the night of Labor Day weekend when hopefully few would notice. Thankfully, the plan was paused.

US judge bars government from sending Guatemalan children back, for now A U.S. judge has blocked the government from deporting a group of Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families.

Immigrant children taken in the middle of the night from shelters and wait in legal limbo on a hot tarmac for hours in the Texas sun.
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I’m a Longhorn through and through, but here’s a photo of my traitor dog Nestlé from 2018. He’s still alive and kicking’ pushing 17

I haven’t yet had the pleasure of watching this show yet, but I support all of your endeavors! ::dale like::

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It happened - I was carded on my birthday! #miracleshappen

After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.

Big if true

One of my dreams is to attend Arthur Ashe 🤞🏼. Not a vodka person but I’ve been curious to make it at home, although I don’t stock Chambord en la casa. I’m thinking a plain, non-herbaceous gin would be my version. I’ll report back if I make it.

Everything’s awful so here’s my current fave snack OMG guau!

Lawmakers are debating GOP congressional maps. What does redistricting mean for Texans? From urban cores to rural regions, Texans' needs differ. Experts worry new districts encompassing geographically distant communities will dilute their voices.

I shared my thoughts with the @texastribune.org about how the level of gerrymandering in this mid-decade redistricting hurts and distorts some basic principles of representation:
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/21/t...

Education Department quietly removes rules for teaching English learners — The Washington Post The move is an acceleration of President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring English the country’s “official language.”

Make no mistake about it,
this is, at its root, motivated by an anti-Latino/Spanish sentiment. Adversely affecting other groups too, of course.

Education Department quietly removes rules for teaching English learners - The Washington Post

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18 months and multiple rounds of revision, paper “ACCEPTED” on Friday at 5 pm!

UTRGV 🤝UCLA connection!
Great meeting with Rodolfo Solis - a talented grad student doing some great work in Latino Politics

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R&R resubmitted!
Now to begin interviews for a new project!

I was quoted in my local paper sharing my thoughts on the current TX redistricting controversy and its significance for the RGV
myrgv.com/publications...

Immigration agents arrest parent outside Chula Vista elementary school The arrest happened Wednesday morning outside Camarena Elementary School. It’s one of the first known enforcement actions in San Diego County’s second-largest city, according to city officials.

ICE enforcement action at school pick-up line. Shameful new low

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How Ice cancelled summer: hundreds of Latino festivals face impossible decision over fear of raids Some organisers say they’re ‘trying to be safe’ in the face of immigration raid fears. But some have found inventive ways to fight back

“Cultural and musical events from coast to coast – block parties and summer concerts in California; Mexican heritage celebrations in Chicago; soccer fan watch parties in Massachusetts – have been postponed or canceled altogether.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

…and then they came for DACA recipients.
Expected but no less awful and cruel decision.