❗️NEW: Listen to me, Salem Elzway & Salonee Bhaman discuss our new essay in this month's @AmerHistReview: A New History of the American Welfare State. Thanks to Daniel Story, PhD 🚴🏼🎙🌴 & American Historical Association, and to Karen Tani, Linda Gordon, & Alice O'Connor for generosity historians.org/podcast/a-new-…

The Biden admin is consciously continuing to put families and individuals at risk instead of rebuilding an asylum system based on dignity and justice. Asylum seekers are not just statistics; they are human beings who have been turned away for nearly a decade, subjected to

"While politicians on both sides of the aisle embrace 'tough on immigration' policies, asylum seekers hoping to enter the U.S. are turning to grassroots organizations for information, safety, and dignity." yesmagazine.org/social-justice…

This asylum ban in its present form violates the immigration statute, it violates treaties for the protection of refugees that the United States committed itself to and in fact helped draft, it endangers the lives of actual human beings, and it encourages a global degradation 1/2

Train derails on outskirts of Juárez, child killed while riding atop car >> from J. Omar Ornelas elpasotimes.com/picture-galler…

Mexico City is home to a new wave of Chinese migrants who are fleeing their country's competitive work culture and high housing prices in search of opportunity, greater freedom or better financial prospects. apnews.com/article/chines…

One man who speaks Soninke, a West African language, said he didn’t know why he was detained - or that it was related to an immigration case - because all his documents were in English and no one at the facility understood him or provided interpretation. latimes.com/politics/story…

Sept 19 opening reception for exhibition of hand-stitched retablos made by migrants at the US-Mexico border includes conversation with Emmanuel Ortega, Assistant Professor at UIC. Through Oct 21. More info/RSVP at lals.uic.edu/.../bordando-e…

Extra proud papa moment: my son Jason Jacoby Lee, who has non-verbal #Autism and writes to communicate, just had his essay on leash laws and disability rights picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle. Please share and retweet! InkWell Management Marie Myung-Ok Lee sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

please share this!!! my heart hurts for Mason and his family :( i can tell how sweet his soul was from his beautiful smile. this hits really close to home as a fellow autistic person. please let’s help his family during this awful time <333 gofund.me/4bb7eaea

Just horrifying. A border patrol agent demanded a teenage girl "show him her papers." He then arrested her, kidnapped her to his house, & raped her for hours. He was just found guilty. FYI more than 5000 allegations of BP sexually assaulting women 12news.com/article/news/l…

Visit Florida removed its LGBTQ travel section, which aligns w/ FL’s moves to erase & undermineLGBTQ history & people. I wrote TIME madebyhistory how history shows us that this sends a message about who is & isn’t welcome, & how it’s also bad business. time.com/7018332/florid…

I started advocating for the Dream Act in 2007. I was 17yo at the time I got DACA in 2012, a yr after graduating from college. I was 23 at the time Its now 2024. Ive adjusted my status (now 35yo) but Congress has yet to fix DACA/help Dreamers Friends + family continue to wait

"What gives me the most hope is how migrant youth take care of each other." —Stephanie L. Canizales, author of SIN PADRES, NI PAPELES, which draws on powerful, firsthand narratives of migrant youth coming of age in LA. #soctwitter Read the interview: ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q-a…

Aysenur Eygi seemed like an exceptional person. May she rest in peace.

CANNOT WAIT to share what has been one of the coolest and most important projects I’ve worked on, a podcast series on the history of the sanctuary movement. This collaboration with my pal Lloyd D. Barba and our partners at Institute for Religion Media and Civic Engagement examines…

Oh I am so glad for this entire series! The immigration courts are not courts. They are executive branch fiefdoms and we need more light shone on them and how they actually work.

The NYPD has "illegally" trashed the carts of at least 5 street vendors in Corona, Queens in recent weeks, per Street Vendor Project. One of those vendors, Blanca Alvarado, said she's struggled to survive since the NYPD threw her $6k cart into a garbage truck. gothamist.com/news/street-ve…

Trump has been allowed to dehumanize and demonize our immigrant community so much and Harris is not saying anything about our humanity. This hurts! Let me be clear, this rhetoric will harm our communities. Not just through policy, but through violence. Enough! #Debate2024

I hate that the only way Haitians have value or are defended is as a source of labor, and not just as people inherently deserving of respect