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Meltdown in Gorton puts wind in the sails of Labour’s imm... Feeling vindicated by the Greens’ byelection win, MPs hope to force the home secretary to rethink her plans

Exc: As many as 80 Labour MPs are braced to oppose the home secretary's immigration policies

Dozens of backbenchers and ministers are understood to be hostile to Shabana Mahmood's reforms. After the Gorton by-election they're pushing for a "recalibration"

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

January: Kidnap the president of Venezuela

February: Launch an unprovoked war with Iran

March: ???

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How ICE’s Budget Boom Is Changing Immigration Detention Last year’s multibillion-dollar funding package has allowed the government to put more immigrants behind bars, often in worse conditions and with little oversight.

There are major concerns with the large number of children in ICE detention, along with the conditions in which they’re held. The agency’s massive new funding combined with resistance to oversight and transparency is making matters worse. bit.ly/4qWSVQ4

Belgium Court suspends two measures on newly tightened asylum rules

Belgium Court suspends two measures on newly tightened asylum rules #Refugees

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

There have been a LOT of amicus briefs filed on both sides of the birthright citizenship issue for Trump v Barbara slated for oral argument on April 1 and decision probably in June. You can find all the briefs here: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

How Trump will fill his immigrant gulags DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the law—and entrap millions.

How Trump will fill his immigrant gulags

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

Germany: Study finds institutional racism in public agencies Researchers have reported that discrimination in German public authorities is frequently embedded in routine decision-making rather than driven by overt attitudes. The finding have renewed calls for r...

New evidence for institutional racism across the board in Germany. Report itself only in German. Government seems to bury the findings of this huge study it funded. Most legacy media ignoring the results. The irony.
www.dw.com/en/germany-s...

Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration

“On the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote.

“[The government] knows this.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

“As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”

Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.

Half are luxury jets.

gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

SCOTUS rejects private prison company GEO Group's attempt at avoiding accountability A long-delayed lawsuit challenging GEO Group's treatment of people in immigration detention can proceed again. A unanimous decision that matters — especially now.

NEW: SCOTUS rejects private prison company GEO Group's attempt at avoiding accountability.

A long-delayed lawsuit challenging GEO Group's treatment of people in immigration detention can proceed again. A unanimous decision that matters — especially now.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Dear all, we gladly remind you of our call for abstracts for the
POLEMO – GOODINT Symposium on Justice, Integration & Democracy, to be held on June 11 & June 12 at Central European University in Vienna.

We'd love to receive your abstracts before March 1st.

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Keeping Trumpism out of Britain The battle now for Labour is to keep US-style bigotry out of Britain. To do that, it cannot simply change its language on immigration and race. It must also change policies

Labour needs to find an authentic centre-left account of how to manage immigration and integration – and that means changing its policies too. @sundersays.bsky.social for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

ICE’s Warehouse Purchases Herald New Model for Immigration Detention - American Immigration Council ICE is purchasing commercial warehouses and retrofitting them into a national network of immigration detention centers.

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org’s blog: ICE is buying up warehouses around the country. I summarize ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” laying out what we know about the Trump admin’s main plan to use the $45 billion they have for detention.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...

DHS Expansion of Immigration Detention into Warehouses This is a live toolkit and will be updated as needed. Table of Contents Introduction & Background Warehouses in Context Impact on Communities National Expansion Map and Status Core Campaign Demands f...

People are uniting together, uplifting their shared values to welcome people and keep everyone safe, calling on businesses to take a stand, and demanding ICE out of their communities.

🔗Learn how to fight back against detention warehouses in our new warehouse toolkit: bit.ly/noicewarehouse

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I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame.

Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.

A Palace Of Illusions: Law and Alienation in India — Madhubala P and Gautam Bhatia ‘Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.’ Madhubala P and Gautam Bhat…

'Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.' Madhubala P and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social on dispossession, deportation, and the contested meaning of citizenship in India.

TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”

So pro-life they'll kill ya.
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary In contexts of democratic backsliding, citizens represent the last bulwark against the systematic dismantling of checks and balances by overbearing executives. And yet, they repeatedly fail to puni...

See also: doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Nice article Zack. You may be interested in this paper on Poland/Hungary by my colleague Theresa Gessler www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

Red Lines: Why we need Red Lines (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the need for red lines in the struggle against reactionary politics.

'For too long, the threat of the far right and reactionary politics has been externalised and exceptionalised. It is time to accept that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises'

This is why we need Red Lines

reacpol.net/why-red-lines/