Julian Hattem

United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.

Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.

Haiti TPS is safe for now.

US, Venezuela to reestablish diplomatic ties The announcement followed a raft of visits by top US officials.

US, Venezuela to reestablish diplomatic ties

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As my colleague Lawrence Huang says on this podcast, South Korea is basically trying to speedrun the west's immigration lessons of multiple decades

Listen and subscribe and leave a nice review

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Olivia Rodrigo - 'The Book Of Love' (The Magnetic Fields Cover) Today, War Child’s all-star benefit compilation HELP(2) finally comes out. It’s a good one. The record, our current reigning Album Of The Week, has new songs from heavy hitters like Cameron Winter, th...

Livies and aging hipsters must join forces to send this to #1

* US closes its embassy in Kuwait

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More than 20,000 Israelis return since start of Iran war, ministry says More than 20,000 Israelis have returned to the country since the start of the Iran air war that began on ​Saturday, the Transportation Ministry said on Thursday, adding that about 120,000 more Israelis currently abroad ‌are seeking to come home.

More than 20,000 Israelis return since start of Iran war, ministry says reut.rs/4rQTTP8

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

"hundreds of millions more people worldwide are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated"

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

El Paso ICE Camp East Montana under quarantine after measles outbreak Camp East Montana, the ICE immigration detention center in El Paso, is under quarantine following a measles outbreak.

Camp East Montana in El Paso is currently under quarantine following a measles outbreak and cases of tuberculosis.

My breaking story:

people used to be very drunk all of the time

one of the side stories of the Iran conflict is what it means for the perception of places like the UAE as destinations for the international wealthy

Especially as Russians had left the EU/UK amid the war in Ukraine, the Gulf had been cashing in on well-to-do foreigners. Does that change?

« La boulangerie, je n’y avais jamais pensé » : venu du Sri Lanka, Sithamparappillai fabrique la meilleure baguette de Paris Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan, le boulanger du Fournil Didot (XIVe), est le vainqueur du concours 2026 de la meilleure baguette tradition de

We love to see it! Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan, a Sri Lankan baker who arrived in France in 2003, has just won best baguette in Paris. He wins €4,000 and a year-long contract baking for Macron

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"Sanctuary" policies undercut immigration enforcement during Trump's first term and under Obama. Are they doing the same under Trump?

My smart colleagues try to unravel

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.

"In nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states, the number of Americans arriving to live and work is at a record and rising," reports WSJ, stitching together a variety of data

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new episode of the @migrationpolicy.bsky.social "Changing Climate Changing Migration" podcast just posted!

@doctora-nature.bsky.social talk about displacement of Indigenous communities

Find it wherever you get yr podcasts

Our running list of judges who have ruled on ICE’s mass detention policy POLITICO is keeping track of the federal judges who have ruled on the administration’s effort to systematically lock up thousands of people.

NEW: Here’s our searchable list of federal judges who have ruled on the legality of ICE’s mass detention policy — with links to key decisions by each.

At least 380 district judges have rejected it in ~3,800 cases. 31 have upheld ICE’s approach ~180 times

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How does cinema shape how we think about migration?

In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen.

🧵 1/3

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Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration Julian Hattem. New Press, $29.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-62097-847-4 Journalist Hattem debuts with a deeply reported look at the new patterns of migration resulting from climate change. Hattem notes that humans “are an innately migratory species” and that environmental changes have always spurred migration but asserts that what is novel about the current moment is the pace of change. He takes readers to Bangladesh—“one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world”—where, due to displacement caused by river erosion, nearly 10 million people are considered “climate migrants.” In northwest Bangladesh, the average household has been displaced a whopping 4.6 times. He also presents the case of Guatemala, where increasing droughts will have nearly two million climate migrants on the move northward through Mexico by 2050, according to the World Bank. Excoriating anti-migrant narratives in the West as racist, Hattem notes the irony that if Western leaders really wanted to reduce migration, they would focus on combatting climate change and “make it easier for people to stay in place.” He observes that many people would indeed prefer to remain in place, and makes plain that mass migration can amount to a devastating cultural erasure, as with the case of Bangladesh’s Munda people, a rural, forest-worshipping Indigenous sect, whose way of life has been threatened by “climate induced scattering.” The result is an informative and troubling snapshot of the current state of the climate crisis. (Jan.)

Very honored by @publisherswkly.bsky.social review of Shelter from the Storm!

"a deeply reported look at the new patterns of migration resulting from climate change... an informative and troubling snapshot of the current state of the climate crisis"
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Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration

"if detention sites like Busmantsi sit at the margins of Europe geographically, they are increasingly central to the European Union’s immigration policies"

in-depth NYT Mag article looks at a migrant detention center in Bulgaria www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...

Migrant boat capsizes off Libya leaving 53 dead, including two babies The IOM says that almost 500 people have been reported dead or missing off Libya so far this year.

The International Organization for Migration says that almost 500 migrants have been reported dead or missing trying the cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya so far in 2026.

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U.S. Seeks to Expedite Deportation of 5-Year-Old Liam Conejo Ramos

Lawyers for the federal government have filed a motion to expedite the deportation of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in the blue conejo hat whose image rocketed around the world after federal agents detained him and his father in Minnesota last month. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

"'No to expulsion,' said Huda Abu Abed, 56, who returned after leaving in March for medical treatment. 'Nobody wants to leave their country.'”

Most Americans say it is acceptable to record video of immigration officers and share their locations

What Americans think is and isn't acceptable from immigration officers and the general public, per new @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

What Drives Anti-Migrant Vigilantes In recent years, vigilante groups opposed to immigration have formed to conduct patrols, stage parades, and even commit violence against asylum seekers and other migrants in Europe, North America, and other regions. Vigilantes often claim that the go...

In countries across the world, anti-migrant vigilantism has been on the rise

In our Migration Information Source magazine, Matthijs Gardenier explains how these activists operate and how they seek to sway public perceptions

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Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Per former colleagues at the @washingtonpost : In a Zoom meeting today, Post foreign staff was told by editors that up to *half* the Post’s newsroom will be cut imminently. Biggest cuts to foreign and sports staff. Sickening.

That’s like 2008 levels of bloodbath

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🌊 Floods & drought 🔥Wildfires & sea-level rise. Different climate events drive different migration patterns
On Jan 27: Vital Crest Foundation Director Rose Kobusinge, Zahid Shashoto from Uttaran Bangladesh & @jmhattem.bsky.social examine how climate change is reshaping migration
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“She was so anemic and hungry that she resorted to eating clay, digging out the top layer of earth to get to the cleaner soil below, and charcoal. Her chart showed she gained fewer than 10 pounds during her entire pregnancy. Her baby, Nuru, was born at 33 weeks, weighing about 3.5 pounds.”