Plane is out of Ireland and on the way to Djibouti. Probably 6-7 hours from now (6:45 am eastern). *IF* it is a deportation also wondering if they would transfer people to a military plane flying in dark mode as last time to ultimate destination…

✈️👀Journey Air N588AT just landed at Djibouti at 1 PM Eastern and 8 PM local. Mission unknown and if a deportation it is unknown to where, and if it will be this plane, or if people will be transferred to a military plane operating in invisible dark mode like the one to South Sudan.

Latest from @geoffboyce.bsky.social, Sam Chambers, Tara Plath, and Dan Martínez in Annals of the AAG:

“Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement“ (open access)

Who We Talk About When We Talk About Borders Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 05/05/2025 · 25m

Absolutely worth a listen:

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“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case “We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.

Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to the two countries, according to multiple sour...

Migrants sent to Libya will literally be sold into slavery and systematically tortured, starved and killed. This is so sickening and insane.

Introducing 'Felt Externalisation': Exploring the Human and Environmental Impacts of EU Borders

"‘Felt externalisation’ is a way to go beyond the policies, the visible, and spectacular and instead capture the everyday, the slow, granular, and felt experience of border externalisation, be it fear, collective trauma, environmental degradation, or the smell of death."

Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:

Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds Trump has a plan to triple ICE’s incarceration capacity, enabling it to detain an additional 84,000 people at any time.

"Immigration is often seen as a wedge issue, but what these last months have laid bare is how our fight for immigrant justice is a fight for all of us."

Via @silkys13.bsky.social

YouTube video by Samuel Storey Standing at the Gates of the Digital Hostile Environment: Britain's Anduril Maritime Sentry Towers

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On January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico came into effect - a significant moment in a continuing process of regional integration that has since expanded to include the Central America and Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), as well as a renegotiated US-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement. The year 1994 also marked the launch of the United States' first-ever coordinated nationwide Southwest Border Enforcement Strategy, titled "Prevention Through Deterrence" (PTD). The launch of PTD inaugurated the contemporary paradigm of border policing in the United States and a sustained increase in border security funding, personnel, technology, and infrastructure that, in the ensuing three decades, has expanded to encompass the US-Canada border, the US-Mexico border; the US interior; and the externalization of US border policing across Mexico and Central America. The goal of this chapter is to explore how the transnational migration flows this project of border policing and security integration aim to control can be understood to be enacting a kind of "shadow regionalism," a process unfold- ing "in parallel with the North American Free Trade Agreement" but that was "created by migrants themselves, through their own movements and exchanges across the border" (Lauby, 2011 n.p.). The chapter furthermore argues that rather than incidental - or even contradic- tory, as some have argued (Andreas, 1998; Fernández-Kelly and Massey 2007; American Immigration Council, 2008; Leuprecht and Hataley, 2023) - this process of shadow regional- ism should be understood as integral to the overall political economy of regional integration in North America.

Shadow regionalism and border policing in the political economy of North American integration
by @geoffboyce.bsky.social

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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Invisible Walls: How AI Tech at Europe's Borders Threatens People Seeking Refuge With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders, and gaining access to the personal data of people seeking ref...

“With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders” wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-ar...

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In 2018, centrists Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and Matteo Renzi said there was a need to crack down on immigrants to keep fascists at bay. Each of their own home countries continued to intensify border enforcement and yet this did not deter the far right. It empowered them. Lesson learned?

ICE probes Tucson restaurant La Indita, known for Indigenous focus & activism On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials launched an investigation into La Indita — a Tucson restaurant known for its legacy of activism and focus on Indigenous food and culture.

La Indita is a staple in the Tucson community. They are being targeted because of their political support for various projects and organizations in Tucson and in Mexico. Please show them all the love you are able.

www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Nope.

Border Imperialism in the Maghreb | Transnational Institute Militarised borders are colonial constructs and their fortification in the Maghreb region serves a Western imperialist agenda. Many of the borders that demarcate African countries today owe their orig...

“Border imperialism explains one of the key mechanisms through which unequal exchange and wealth drain from the periphery is secured, and racialised hierarchy in the international system – what W.E.B du Bois referred to as the ‘global color line’, is upheld.” www.tni.org/en/borderimp...

Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them

A lot of people ask me whether it feels better to live in Europe than the US right now. It does not.

Biden commutes sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his preside…

Biden was monstrous and aweful in a lot of ways. But this is one good thing he did. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Alps.

My God…

And as Title 42 expulsions increased, deaths (in Arizona) also increased by 48%, disproportionately affecting Mexican and Guatemalan nationals doi.org/10.1177/2331...

We’ll have to see you next time!

Back in Ireland.

'Damning' New Poll Shows Price Kamala Harris Paid for Backing Israeli Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams Vice President Kamala Harris' refusal to break with the Biden administration's support for Israel's assault on Gaza cost her millions of potential Democratic voters. Will the Democratic Party learn fr...

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The Border Has Eyes - Latino USA Many have heard of the physical border wall that exists in different parts of the U.S.-Mexico border, but there is...

"Researchers like Geoff Boyce... have published work that shows how some surveillance towers, and other border and surveillance infrastructure, create a funneling effect that corrals and drives migrants to some of the most remote and harsh desert landscapes, sometimes resulting in their deaths."

Eye in the sky: The feds have quietly built surveillance towers along the Canadian border in Vermont, New York - VTDigger VTDigger found that at least three towers first proposed in 2021 have been built in the region since — and it’s possible more are on the way.

Quoted today in the VT Digger, where they mentioned Sam, Sarah’s and my research on border surveillance towers: