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NEW! A federal court just ruled that President Trump's "invasion" proclamation banning asylum at the border is UNLAWFUL. Judge Moss vacates agency guidance implementing the proclamation, issues declaratory relief that the order is unlawful, and enjoins its implementation.

For one S.F. asylum seeker, ICE arrest meant move to more conservative judge. Asylum-seeker was put in front of judge with 90 percent denial rate after arrest in San Francisco

Art and Architecture of Ports of Entry Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Visual Journey (Republished)

Reporters & researchers: get ICE detained population graphs (Interval ADP) by facility for *all* 162 detention facilities in use by ICE right now at the post below. Please use them anywhere you write (with attribution). austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-adp…

Author John Washington talks to Roman Mars on 99% Invisible about why he started questioning the ways that borders shape how we think, act, and live. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-…

When immigration data becomes political theater. Immigration researcher Austin Kocher warns that reporting arrest quotas without context can amplify administration messaging. poynter.org/reporting-edit…

Border Patrol didn’t even exist until 1924 so … no, this is not true. For more than half of America’s history, the total number of nationwide encounters was 0.

ICE prepares detention blitz with historic $45 billion in funding Much of new allocation from Congress — larger than detention spending by the Obama, Biden & first Trump admins COMBINED — will go to private prison contractors tasked w/ doubling capacity washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

JUST IN: Trump admin now again calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation "a one off mistake...an administrative error." Didn't they fire a lawyer and suspend another for saying this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

I agree 100% with Donald J. Trump.

The Trump administration just issued notices terminating Temporary Protected Status for 2 more countries: Honduras & Nicaragua Other terminations are being litigated in court Links below

Major staffing reductions announced just now by US Dept of Veterans Affairs 30,000 employees by end of September ====>

HUGE! This completely puts to lie the Trump admin’s repeated claims in court that the U.S. has no control over the people we had imprisoned without trial in El Salvador. El Salvador told the United Nations definitively that those people are being held under U.S. jurisdiction.

“ICE has emerged as one of our main forces for regulating the mobility of people in the developing world,” says Austin Kocher of Syracuse University. economist.com/united-states/…

My interview with Jon Greenberg at the Poynter Institute on the challenges of immigration research. "When immigration data becomes political theater." poynter.org/reporting-edit…

Manufacturing an endless crisis: “As long as the admin’n keeps moving the quota bar, as long as ICE can never meet the quota bar, it gives the impression that solving immigration is always out of reach…shaping the public narrative that we need to throw more $$ at the problem.”

US Immigrant Detention System Entering a Period of Unprecedented Growth – 58,000 People Now Held in Over 200 Facilities austinkocher.substack.com/p/us-immigrant…

Immigration scholar Austin Kocher, PhD guides us through the process of analyzing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest data, based on datasets published by the Data Deportation Project: journalistsresource.org/home/how-to-ma…

Ahead of tomorrow's court hearings on Trump's expansion of expedited removal--the administrative process for removing certain noncitizens without immigration court hearings--I'm sharing a few resources below, since many people aren't familiar with ER still

I'm going on LIVE shortly on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC to talk about immigration enforcement policies and the growth of immigrant detention. Tune in! wnyc.org/shows/bl