Cecilia Menjivar

Actually, the only people at the park was a summer camp for children. The park was otherwise empty

Congratulations to Professors Young and Calarco and all of us @asanews.bsky.social. Looking forward to their leadership!

Amazing first edition of El Faro’s “Central America Monthly,” packed full of superb reporting, the now-notorious interviews with El Sal gang leaders (English subtitles), a podcast episode, a deep dive into the Guatemalan genocide trial, and much much more. 👇👇

Human rights activist arrested in El Salvador amidst crackdown on dissent Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her colleague Noah Bullock from the human rights organization Cristosal about the case.

Ruth López, leading human rights defender, @cristosal.bsky.social still imprisoned ⁦in El Salvador

www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

Remember last month, when you didn’t have to worry about the safety of the US nuclear arsenal? Or when you could get on a plane pretty sure you'd survive the flight?
Those were the days.

My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.

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White House broadcasts immigration raids, but are arrests really up? Despite images of a nationwide sweep, there is little evidence so far that ICE is arresting, detaining or deporting many more people than usual.

I talked to USA Today this week for an important story:

"If the data was out there and transparent, it would undermine their story," said Austin Kocher, a research professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The front page of Contexts magazine's Winter 2025 Special Section: Election Reflections--And What Comes Next, by Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn. The image is black, white, and red, with images of flags, check marks, and circles, and the text reads: Just before the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, we asked a group of sociologists--all esteemed researchers from different subfields of our discipline--to think, observe, and write about America's big decision. Here, we present a special, and very timely, section of the magazine: a curated collection of essays that track the pulse of our democracy.

New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Mary Romero, @andrewjperrin.bsky.social, A. Spencer-Blume, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election

American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 68, Number 12, Nov 01, 2024 Table of contents for American Behavioral Scientist, 68, 12, Nov 01, 2024

Volume 68 Issue 12, November 2024
Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World
Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social

Some of the articles are available Open Access

journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12

As fires rage, day laborers volunteer to clean up Pasadena streets The Pasadena Community Job Center is a gathering spot for day laborers. As fires burned across the region, workers and staff launched a fire relief brigade.

Immigrant workers have cleaned & rebuilt after many U.S. disasters. Today, they're at work bringing L.A. out from the ashes, volunteering their labor, 12 hrs/day, cleaning streets & parks in Pasadena & building community #thankyoudaylaborers @ndlon.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Wonderful news!! Temporary Protected Status designations which were set to expire in the next few months: El Salvador, Venezuela, Ukraine, Sudan. This means 18 additional months of protection for roughly 850,000 people!!
What about Honduras??

Opinion | Who will rebuild Los Angeles? Immigrants. And many of them will be doing it under threat of family separation.

"Immigrants will be the ones bringing Los Angeles back from the ashes. Without them, the city will struggle to recover."

wapo.st/4gG1Xgd

TPS recipients & allies are in a hunger strike in Washington DC calling on the @POTUS Biden admin. to renew TPS for El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua. Biden can protect these long-term residents from deportation #TPSJustice
@TPS_Alliance

Well, that was… fun.

Seriously though, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been there and to help make the case for why we should pass a path to permanent legal status rather than carry out self-destructive mass deportations.

Excellent paper and ASA presentation! So much to learn from yours and @nandosigona.bsky.social's work!

Important primer on expedited removal by the @immcouncil.bsky.social explaining the process by which low-level immigration officers can summarily remove certain noncitizens without a hearing.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/defaul...

Unauthorized residence - Migration Policy Centre Unauthorized residence

And the forum in which it is critically discussed by Antje Ellermann, @adamhosein.bsky.social and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social:
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...

Translation of President Sheinbaum's letter into English, by David Adler (@davidrkadler): x.com/davidrkadler...

Response from Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to threats of tariffs for migration control. Using US data, she shows that Mexico already has an extensive system of control in place. Also notes the gun traffic from US to Mexico behind the rise of violence in Mexico

x.com/i/status/186...

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024) Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. Plus: sign up for the new Immigration Book Club online.

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)

Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...

So worrisome. It won’t end with just sociology or only in Florida. It’s a much larger and deeply insidious project

Yes, the flurry of directives, uncertainty, deadline changes, etc. take a huge toll on these lawyers, esp. those in public interest law. See this piece by @catherinecrooke
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?

NEW FROM ME:

The government will do things that hurt people.

But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.

Here’s a start.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

I’ve been asked a few times recently, so let me say this simply: Republicans move immigration policy to the right, then Democrats normalize/systemitize those changes, laying the groundwork for Republicans to move the needle further to the right. 🔄 There is no leftward movement.

LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials, a day after President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would use military asset...

LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape.

The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.

www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v...

ABS Board Member and guest co-editor of the November 2024 double issue, The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, discussed autocracy in an interview in September 2024.

Today we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests and their two lay workers at the Catholic University (UCA) in El Salvador. They were martyred for speaking on behalf of the poor and oppressed.

Thank you! I appreciate it

The Biden administration massively expanded the electronic monitoring of immigrants, restricted access to asylum, left 287(g) in place, and increased deportations. So yes, the Trump administration does have “what they need” to carry out mass deportations.