San Diego has surpassed Tucson, becoming the top border region for migrant arrivals for the first time in decades. I wrote about the history of of migration route shifts (h/t Adam Isacson)

latimes.com/politics/story…

“The policy has basically been to wear people down, so send them from the north to the south and dump them in the south so they have to make their way back up.” ft.com/content/d0676c…

Corollary: innumerable U.S. government communications regarding the day to day functioning of the U.S./Mexico border are conducted via WhatsApp, a medium that is absolutely untouchable by U.S. records laws.

A STORY OF PEOPLE LEAVING THE COMFORT OF THE PLACE THEY CONSIDERED HOME (cucumbers and melons!) FOR UNCERTAINTY OF ELSEWHERE IS A DIASPORIST STORY I’m sorry.

We don’t have a major festival for arrival in Israel (end of Pentateuch). But we have a festival for flight. Come on.

Chag pesach sameach.

Next year in a better world.

Allow me to add myself to the chorus of people who are bravely outing themselves as neutral about Taylor Swift

It's terrible to lose such a talented reporter

“It’s quiet. …Too quiet.”

-Me on any weekend when I don’t have an article I’m supposed to be working on

(Editors, my books are open, if you think you might want something from me let’s talk)

🚨New Report about asylum seekers and migrants at the 🇺🇸-🇲🇽border👇
“Kidnappings were always known, but they were not as normal as they are now,” a religious worker told WOLA about the migrant population they work with in #Tamaulipas #Mexico 🧵1/3
wola.org/analysis/kidna…

'The world doesn’t produce refugees on a bespoke basis. It produces them at industrial scale, as collateral damage from global upheavals.' Dara Lind

prospect.org/justice/2024-0…

Penn is really good at events. Every time I’ve been there I’ve left impressed. Special shoutout this time to Dra. Estefanía Michael Jones-Correa and the legendary Roberto G. Gonzales, currently for baseball reasons the happiest man in all of Pennsylvania.

Dara Make A Normal Face Challenge contending mightily with Dara Get Your Hair In Order Challenge

“Two things,” I write in a feature(!) for The American Prospect, “are both true.

“One, America is in danger of turning its back on the global order set by the Refugee Convention…

“Two, America still loves a refugee.”

prospect.org/justice/2024-0…

…Oh.

(NDTX is…definitely not _not_ the court that this policy was aimed at.)