Dr. S. Deborah Kang

🚨There is a hidden issue in US immigration detention: the treatment of pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women. 🚨

Despite ICE's own policies against detaining these individuals, reports of medical neglect, miscarriages, and nutritional deprivation have been documented.

With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere - Public Books Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose borderin...

🗣️ New from MiSC scholar Jenna Loyd for @publicbooks.bsky.social.

The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technology—a tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility.

🧵 ⤵️

www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...

Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

There was a time in the past when these stops were illegal. I've written about this here: www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbou... and here: medium.com/@sdkang2020/... and here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

See also Lindsay Nash's: michiganlawreview.org/journal/inve...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Thank you Ben!

Journal of American Constitutional History The Journal of American Constitutional History is a peer-reviewed web-based journal publishing high-quality scholarship on U.S. constitutional history. Our editorial board includes over 60 leading…

The Summer 2025 issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History is now live! In this issue: articles by Gerard N. Magliocca, S. Deborah Kang (@kangborderlaw.bsky.social), Sam Erman and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, and a book review by Katherine Shaw. Read it here: buff.ly/6a9ecwr.

🗃️ Important new research on anti-Mexican racism and immigration law here 👇🏽

Thank you so much for reading and citing! I'm glad you found it helpful!

Creating a “Mass Production Technique”: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 by S. Deborah Kang New archival research shines a light on the anti-Mexican animus that motivated the authors and agents of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 and reveals that racism was a feature, rathe...

Delighted to see this piece in print: jach.law.wisc.edu/anti-mexican...

Many thanks to the Journal of American Constitutional History for creating an online space for publishing legal historical work, esp. since making this piece accessible to scholars and advocates was my number one priority.

Thank you Anna for posting--I've been off of social media for a while and I just saw this today.

He's just doing his job. I'd simply thank him for his time and politely decline.

https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/18/2/144/8156006?guestAccessKey=c1a70d7d-2c76-48bf-b436-99bc31cb6547

1/12 🧵 As migration scholars, we're honored to highlight @naomipaik.bsky.social's timely "Sanctuary for All," published by @oxunipress.bsky.social for @icahdq.bsky.social. She argues: with Project 2025 threats, expansive sanctuary is crucial for all. ⤵️

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This article is extremely problematic. Creates a caricatured portrait of Democrats and Republicans (and frankly, needed more fact checking on this point). Also premised on very simplistic assumptions re elections and voters. Finally, their poll data says nothing about voters' views of enforcement.

USAID didn’t fail. It fed 127,000 kids—then was erased mid-crisis. No speech. No tribute. Just silence. They didn’t end a program. They liquidated a covenant. The last American promise not built on conquest—but care.
🔗 thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com

4 women seated at a long table with two blue and green abstract paintings behind them

4 books related to military history, foreign relations, and 1 book related to zoos during wartime with a conference badge displayed in the middle on a wooden table

First @shafrhistorians.bsky.social conference ✅ Thank you to @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social for coordinating our panel, to @rerbelding.bsky.social for being a great co-panelist, and to @kangborderlaw.bsky.social our wonderful chair/commentator!

This. If we have learned nothing in the last six months, it is that appeasement does not work

"Virginia’s economy and prosperity depend on the strength and integrity of our higher education system. It is outrageous that officials in the Trump Department of Justice demanded the Commonwealth’s globally recognized university remove President Ryan—a strong leader who has served UVA honorably and moved the university forward—over ridiculous ‘culture war’ traps. Decisions about UVA’s leadership belong solely to its Board of Visitors, in keeping with Virginia’s well-established and respected system of higher education governance. This is a mistake that hurts Virginia’s future."

My statement with @markwarner.bsky.social on reporting that President Jim Ryan was pressured to resign from the University of Virginia by the Trump Administration:

Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

it has never been clearer that undocumentedness is the outcome of processes of ILLEGALIZATION. it's not something a person does, it's something the state does to a person. The state is doing this to hundreds of thousands overnight, so it's especially shocking, but it's part of broader illegalization

We're at SHAFR tomorrow! If you're in town, hope to see you at our panel on our new edited volume, Hidden Histories of Unauthorized European Migrations to the United States!

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations.

He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States

***New IEHS member publication***

Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States edited by @dbattisti.bsky.social and @kangborderlaw.bsky.social

@illinoispress.bsky.social

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www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Trump Is Losing Political Ground on Immigration The administration’s aggressive deportation push has alarmed voters, including some of the president’s supporters.

Americans voiced their opposition to the cruelty of Trump's immigration policies in his first term and they are doing so again. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What a deeply heartfelt and yet screwed up situation.

A homemade sign reading "only one orange king in Philly", with a picture of Gritty wearing a crown over his helmet and saying "it me"

A homemade sign with "Liberté, Égalité, Gritté" written in copperplate script