Hannah Postel

Trump Was Not the Only President Who Tried to Force Migrants to Leave

For decades, the United States tried to push undocumented people to self-deport. Success has often depended on coercion. I wrote a short history of the long shadow of self-deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Trump's own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks 'supply shock-induced food shortages' and higher prices | Fortune The Labor Department's filing also admitted that Americans are not willing to replace undocumented farmworkers.

"Trump’s own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks ‘supply shock-induced food shortages’ and higher prices"

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Thrilled to get my hands on @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social's incredible new book.

Beth is not only a brilliant scholar but also a ridiculously evocative writer and one of the most thoughtful humans I know.

Also understanding how state and local govs regulated migrant lives is kind of important 🤷‍♀️

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes Deportation Data Project Data Accessible to More People New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes ICE arrest data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People

New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

The Ritual of Civic Apology More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Trump had promised to focus on rounding up immigrants with criminal records during his 2024 election campaign. Government data shows that actual ICE arrests skew heavily towards immigrants without criminal convictions.
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A new rule-based linking method for historical Census records based on extra information, offering higher match rates and accuracy than earlier algorithms, from Abramitzky, Platt Boustan, Brookes Gray, Eriksson, Pérez, @hpostel.bsky.social‬, Rashid, and Simon https://www.nber.org/papers/w33999

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Reading over the text, one thing sticks out immediately: it is incredibly racist toward Haitians in particular. Quoting directy: "Additionally, hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian aliens flooded into the United States during the Biden Administration. This influx harms American communities..."

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin:

- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

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Yesterday we hosted Hannah Postel @hpostel.bsky.social (Duke) for our junior workshop—thank you for visiting us!

She presented “Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage” (with Abramitzky, Boustan & Eriksson), sparking a rich discussion on historical data and migration!

America has a complex history on migration and the role immigrants play in economic development. In the Sanford School’s Policy 360 podcast, @hpostel.bsky.social discusses the cycles of migrations, deportations and legal restrictions that mark that history.

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We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

Key reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social:

Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals.

So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Thank you for this! Anyone I could talk to about climate change/migration? Feel free to DM.

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.

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I think the US public has refused to understand what havoc the US has created around the world in pursuit of its own power, or considered how this might shape global migration, and an obtuse insistence on US innocence fuels further violence here and abroad.

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

The deal in this country has long been that undocumented immigrants are always in danger…but that paying taxes (for benefits you can’t claim) *reduces* that danger.

Trump wants them not to pay taxes.

NEW: The Trump admin moves to strip up to several hundred thousand people of humanitarian parole, which would cause them to lose any jobs they currently have and render them in the Trump admin's view subject to "expedited removal," rapid deportations without any right to see an immigration judge.

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

Folks are gonna dunk on the Trump voter and I get that but don’t sleep on the more disturbing part of the story:

@justsand.bsky.social and I try to answer the question: how many lives saved by US foreign assistance each year. Best estimate: 3.3 million.

www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...

Very pleased to discuss the blitzkrieg attack on the entire international development ecosystem of the United States yesterday at the Center for Development Economics at Williams College. Did you know that 94% of all #USAID spending in the last six years was audited and only 0.3% had issues?

Can't wait to read!

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.