MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History
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Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
🚨 NEW and horrible: BIA doubles down on Matter of Yajure Hurtado and holds that neither prior designation as an UIC or approved Special Juvenile petition alter the 235(b) mandatory detention designation and orders the bond granted by the IJ vacated and the 21 years old non-citizen -- who has an approved SIIJ and appears prima facie eligible for adjustment of status -- detained without bond. JFC!
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
Not only is birthright citizenship enshrined in the United States Constitution by the 14th Amendment, but it has also greatly benefited the US economy, explains Cato’s Michelangelo Landgrave. A new study estimates the economic impact of birthright citizens’ incomes to be $7.7 trillion.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
The 15 Latin Americans deported from the US to Kinshasa are holed up in a hotel by the airport, where there are water cuts, rats, and lots of mosquitoes. They have no passports, don't speak French, and have no idea what comes next. My story for @NPR: npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-579…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS
The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." documentcloud.org/documents/…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
At least 17 people have died in ICE custody so far this year, part of President Trump's dramatic increase of immigration detention. "I have never seen anything like this, where I'm seeing ICE reporting out at least one death per week," says Setareh Ghandehari of @DetentionWatch.
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
propublica.org/article/trump…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
ICE pays bounties to local cops for arresting immigrants for civil infractions and then sending them to ICE, which helps fill the ICE arrest quotas. What an insane set of incentives
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
🚨 Since July 2025, federal agents have shot 16 people. No criminal charges. Limited public information. Cases quietly fading from the news. Rather than a coincidence, these events reflect a deep-set pattern. 🧵👇
counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇
sites.google.com/lclark.edu/…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
🚨 NEW: Over the past year, Columbia University has played a direct role in the arrests and targeting of its international students by federal immigration agents, in violation of the university's own stated policies and protocols.
What began last March has continued since — Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, Ranjani Srinivasan, Yunseo Chung, Elmina Aghayeva...
Reporting with Macy Hanzlik-Barend for @theintercept
Read here: theintercept.com/2026/03/08/…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
A reminder that, a week later, ICE still hasn’t published detention data that is required by congress.
ICE Fails Again to Publish Required Detention Data
austinkocher.substack.com/p/…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
New from me: Legal immigrants are now getting tickets for not carrying their papers under a decades-old law. You can be cited if you're a permanent resident, international student, on a work visa, etc. Happening in southwest AZ but could spread inland azcir.org/news/2026/03/04/bo…
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
In Trump’s 2nd term, DHS has:
-Killed American citizens & covered it up
-Authorized warrantless home invasions
-Detained 170+ U.S. citizens—including children
-Run coordinated racial profiling operations
Don let Congress expand the budget: 📞 877-851-2521
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
Firing over 100 immigration judges.
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship oath ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, you should be outraged by this. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
You have the right to record ICE.
You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it.
Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
Agents conducting immigration traffic stops in Key Largo Wednesday pulled this woman, who is wearing medical scrubs, from her car as she screamed she is a U.S. citizen. Agent cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go. By David Goodhue/Miami Herald.
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
🚨The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Migration Scholar Collaborative retweeted
"Refugee families need a pathway to protection that is consistent, principled and grounded in the promise that every life matters equally — not just the few who fit a favored profile."
What message are we sending when Afghan allies, Venezuelan dissidents and Rohingya genocide survivors are pushed aside while others leap the line?
My new @MSNBC op-ed on the WH’s record-low refugee cap — an attempt to redefine who’s worthy of protection.
msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna2426…
