Chloe N East (she/her)

Application Deadline April 5!

Are you a PhD student/postdoc/early-career scholar studying immigration?

Want to spend time this summer in Mexico City w other immigration scholars?

Apply to the UC Davis Global Migration Center summer school!

I'll be there w 3 other amazing economists!

globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3

NYC friends! I'm around next week and free for some happy hours and dinners. DM me and let's hang!

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his hands in the air ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his hands in the air

Today, within 5 minutes of meeting me, a repair man suggested I go to one of those places where you pay to smash things ...

I guess I'm projecting a lot of unresolved anger! I wonder why!

Denver’s ICE Crackdown Is Among the Most Severe in the Nation, CU Boulder Study Finds The analysis examines whether or not the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement is truly targeting the “worst of the worst.”

Full article here: 5280.com/what-we-lear...

Colorado folks, it's not just in your head, Colorado has experienced one of the largest increases in ICE arrests in Trump 2.0 around the country.

And almost all of this increase is from indiscriminate arrests of people on the street, at their workplaces, at their homes, etc

Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week.

We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!).
Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY
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"If lawmakers are concerned with public safety in Colorado, immigration enforcement is not the way to achieve improved public safety.

We show that here in Colorado with the data, but that’s also true across the whole country."

-- me today in the Boulder @dailycamera.com

Congratulations!!!

As ICE arrests reach record highs, percent with criminal record plummets A new analysis of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests confirms that ICE tactics have changed since Trump’s first term, with more arrests made at

My new research on ICE activity in Trump 2.0 highlighted by @colorado.edu

"Our results reveal that the reality of immigration enforcement diverges sharply from the public narrative.”

www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

Sarasota County Jail is indicated by a blue marker in Sarasota, Florida. Tampa can be seen to the north. Map by OpenStreetMap, ODbL using Leaflet.

A photo of the exterior of Sarasota County Jail. From the county sheriff's office website.

Sarasota County Jail is located in Sarasota, Florida.

As of February 5, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining people at this facility for an average of 1 day.

detentionreports.com/facility/SAR...

Berkeley!

The hardest part about living in Colorado is far from the ocean!

Snuck in 20 minutes sitting by the ocean resetting before heading home. The Bay Area always has a special place in my heart.

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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Happy to be back at Davis to give a talk! Remembering lots of fun times and just a little bit of grad school trauma 🤣

Important & timely working paper from East, Cox, and my colleague @caitlinpatler.bsky.social

Trump II systematically using "community arrests" (ICE arrests on the street, workplace, in the community, etc) and not targeting immigrants w/ criminal convictions

NBER link: www.nber.org/system/files...

Just how unprecedented is the ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown? We answer those questions and more in our new NBER working paper.

www.nber.org/papers/w34794

5) ICE tactics in 2025 differ across areas. In 2025, there were distinct increases in Community Arrests in regions generally controlled by Democrats, which far exceed patterns observed during the first Trump Administration.

4) This change in methods explains much, but not all, of the decline in % with a criminal conviction among those arrested in 2025. Even among those arrested at law enforcement facilities, the % with a criminal conviction is falling

3) Arrests in 2025 done using different methods than in 2017 -- more arrests taking place in the community versus in law enforcement facilities

New @nber.org paper with @caitlinpatler.bsky.social &
@elizabethacox.bsky.social out!

We examine how ICE arrests differ in Trump 2.0 vs. 1.0

Key Findings 🧵

1) MANY more arrests in Trump 2.0 than 1.0

2) When arrests spike, % arrested w criminal conviction falls

www.nber.org/papers/w3479...

Happy to chat with you about these findings and the broader implications! Thanks!

CU Regents face calls to support collective bargaining, end Key Lime Air contract tied to ICE flights Labor advocates and community members dominated public comment, urging regents to reconsider both labor policy and an airline contract tied to ICE activity.

boulderreportinglab.org/2026/02/05/c...

Shout to Brooke Stephenson @ Boulder Reporting Lab for the excellent reporting on this.

CU regents plan union rights proposal for faculty, staff and student workers Union advocates will speak at the CU Board of Regents’ Feb. 5 meeting in Boulder, as a months-long debate over collective bargaining begins.

Big week around here at CU with my @ucwcolorado.bsky.social siblings!

boulderreportinglab.org/2026/02/03/c...

"the arrest, detention, and deportation of a parent or other family member reduces family income; and ... undocumented adults may work less due to chilling effects or a reduction in their legal ability to work. Thus, U.S.-born teenagers may need to work to help their family make up for lost income."

New report out by yours truly @clasp.org !!

ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 is Increasing Employment and Decreasing Full-Time School Enrollment for Teens in Mixed-Status Families

www.clasp.org/publications...