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bostonmigration.bsky.social
Boston-based, immigration-obsessed; Posts on immigration, Boston, refugees. Retired canonist. AILA, CLSA. Reaction to most news: Cui bono?
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From the San Francisco Standard: "When DHS attorneys sought to dismiss cases last week, judges stonewalled them... So ICE made a change...agents began using a lesser-known tactic to take immigrants into custody without a judge’s approval." bit.ly/4kxLCvO

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Exclusive: The Justice Department is using a little-known law to criminally charge unauthorized immigrants who have failed to register their presence in the country, threatening them with potential jail time and fines.

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.

submitted 3 days ago • 103 comments

“The first feeling is that probably we’re going survive here,” said Anastasiia Vorobel, in Massachusetts under the Uniting for Ukraine parole program. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @wgbh.org @gbhnews.bsky.social

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International students contributed $44 billion to the U.S. economy in the 2023-2024 school year. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Think about this. ICE is so short of its “numbers’” and too lazy to do actual investigatory work, that they wait around court hallways to arrest and detain people who actually show up for court hearings and USCIS interviews. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/i...

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Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

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“Some of these are our closest partners, people that actually worked with us and for us, that are simply using the TPS program because that was the only option,” said Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado), a former Army Ranger who fought in Afghanistan.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Under Trump, some immigrants lose protections — others don’t. Why? 🎁 www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I was off by about 13 hours here, but as expected a MA federal judge has stopped the Trump administration's wildly illegal attempt to terminate all of Harvard's student visas for no actual lawful reason

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This is an insane, wildly counterproductive policy change that will do nothing but harm the national interest. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

This order by Houston Judge Ellison could pierce the CECOT veil! gov.uscourts.txsd.2006667.10.0_2.pdf storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Google, OpenAI, and Moderna have positively impacted your daily life. What do they have in common? They were founded by a team of immigrants and natives. Why does that matter? (continued)

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

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HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."

submitted 17 days ago • 64 comments

Mi historia es la de un ciudadano, hijo de migrantes, que decidió migrar. Todos durante nuestra vida podemos estar sanos o enfermos, con o sin empleo, en nuestro país o fuera, pero nuestra dignidad permanece intocada... Mensaje al cuerpo diplomático press.vatican.va/content/sala...

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@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social spoke with AP about why he doesn’t buy the $1,000 self-deportation deal. TLDR leaving the US can forfeit your asylum claim & there’s no proof DHS even has the authority to make these payments. This deal is a PR stunt, not a pathway. apnews.com/article/t...

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It would be helpful if articles like this got facts straight. Refugee resettlement has NOT been been used to resettle people fleeing “natural disaster.” Reporters. Just look up the refugee definition or look at a state dept. resettlement report to Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

USCIS terminates TPS for Afghanistan 😢https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-13/pdf/2025-08201.pdf

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I'm so honored to contribute a chapter to "Rituals of Migration"! My chapter examines how the Irish poor became deportable upon entering public almshouses in the US and Britain in the 19th century. Admission into almshouses served as a ritual for forced exit from the country. @nyupress.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

“The TPS designation for Afghanistan will expire on May 20 and deportation protections will lift on July 12… The termination of the status comes as the Trump administration fast-tracked the classification of refugees for white South Africans who landed in the U.S. Monday.”

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments