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Senior Development Economist & Human Mobility Expert – Migration & Forced Displacement Morse College Fellow @Yale.edu | PhD Economics @sciencespo.bsky.social | Fulbright Program alumnus @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social Ex @UNDP.org @OECD-OCDE.bsky.social
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
24.01.2026 00:38 — 👍 50114 🔁 14441 💬 971 📌 854That’s absolutely crazy… and so sad !
14.01.2026 18:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Lady Liberty murdered by fascists
"Fuckin' bitch."
09.01.2026 23:41 — 👍 1980 🔁 811 💬 43 📌 42
A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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A person walks in front of a historic stone building with an ornate facade, located on the campus of Yale University.
An image of a historic stone building with gothic architectural features, framed by autumn trees, likely located at Yale University.
Snow-covered Gothic-style building at Yale University with snow-dusted trees in the foreground.
View of a historic gothic building with spires at Yale University, surrounded by green lawns and blooming pink trees, with a person reading on the grass.
One view, four seasons.
Here’s Berkeley College the way students see it all year long, through the lens of Gavin Susantio from Cross Campus. #Yale
Too bad they don’t believe in #ClimateChange or they would also blame #immigrants for it !
27.12.2025 16:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
20.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 3199 🔁 807 💬 301 📌 404
Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick criticizing a government official’s claim that due process should be ignored in immigration enforcement. The tweet argues that due process applies to everyone and is enshrined twice in the U.S. Constitution. Below it is a quoted tweet referencing a statement attributed to Stephen Miller about deportations, alongside a video still of a man speaking at a podium outdoors.
My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.
27.12.2025 01:23 — 👍 4982 🔁 1201 💬 231 📌 47
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
24.12.2025 21:56 — 👍 8116 🔁 2316 💬 127 📌 296That’s what happens when you start a trade war !
09.12.2025 22:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This, and the way the US army is killing Venezuelan (and Colombian) fishermen (drug dealers according to them) against international laws (and without any demonstrated evidence).
And it’s probably a “coincidence” that most “refugees” entering the US now are white (Afrikaners).
I increasingly think that these people not only don’t care about it, but the death of people of color is probably a good news for them. They are white supremacists and they know what they are doing !
04.12.2025 17:18 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Make America WASP again !
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
The US government is engaged in a policy program of mass exclusion.
It is not a ‘crackdown’—which means strict enforcement against lawbreakers.
It seeks to exclude refugees, students, and family members immigrating lawfully, and to exclude US citizens smeared as undesirable.
Not a ‘crackdown’.
Too bad they lost the most important series of the year against the #Yankees !!!
01.12.2025 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tweet from the official account of the US Dept. of Homeland Security: “Remigrate”
Easy opportunity for any journalist speaking to any immigration official of the US government:
Ask, “Can you please define the term, ‘remigration’?”
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
06.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 9268 🔁 6030 💬 438 📌 1286👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
05.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
05.11.2025 02:47 — 👍 61821 🔁 11158 💬 1183 📌 516
The US Administration is preparing to issue a new rule restricting employment authorization for asylum-seekers.
It's unclear now exactly what form that will take. But @cbsnews.com reported in June that the new policy may indefinitely, categorically ban new work permits for all asylum seekers—>
It is now the policy of the United States government to invade any country on earth under the pretext of protecting Christians (but no other ethnic group).
It is the policy of the United States to “cherish” Christians (but members of no other faith).
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
« On est en train de discuter des livres que va lire Nicolas Sarkozy en prison ? Alors qu'il a été condamné pour "association de malfaiteurs". »
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Reinventing concepts: “brain bridges” have been called “brain circulation” for decades.
21.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Selecting US immigrants based on their race, or on their (Left or Right) political views, is illegal and a betrayal.
Our refugee program is an expression of our humanitarian values and, for many sponsors, a profound expression of their faith. It is not a plaything for ethno-nationalist extremists.
In this new paper, I analyse how #HumanMobility affects resilience in #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean.
I show how to build #resilience through policy recommendations aimed at minimizing the potential risks of #migration & #displacement, while maximizing their #development impact.
lnkd.in/eVGbq-eJ
Great game indeed
11.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Former USAID official here.
The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.
It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.
The facts, below. 🧵
The numbers say H-1Bs raise wages, boost patents, and drive productivity.
The story is that H-1Bs aren’t just “workers”—they’re engines of innovation. They're the strivers who crossed the ocean, and brought their fresh new ideas with them.
