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Director,@theimmigrationlab.bsky.social; Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; and Full Professor, Sociology, American University, DC. Immigration and the politics of the possible. Author of multiple books & articles.
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or when a family member who is undocumented is detained, deported, and the rest of the family is not. This is not new, but the current Trump administration has been especially callous in, for example, breaking car windows and removing moms and dads by force in front of their children" said Castañeda
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Forced family separations happen any time that an immigrant family is not allowed to come into a country together with authorization, when family members entering together are physically separated, some deported, and some taken into custody, or when minors are taken into foster care,
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and people have been deported quickly without due process, agreeing, consulting a lawyer, or the opportunity to make a case against removal in front of an immigration judge. Due process, habeas corpus, and the presumption of innocence are rights given by the U.S. Constitution to anyone on U.S. soil.
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ou quando um membro da família, em situação irregular, é detido e deportado, e o restante da família, não. Isso não é novidade, mas o atual governo Trump tem sido especialmente insensível, por exemplo, quebrando janelas de carros e removendo mães e pais à força, na frente de seus filhos."
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"Separações familiares forçadas ocorrem sempre que uma família imigrante não tem permissão para entrar em um país sem autorização; quando membros da família que entram juntos são fisicamente separados, alguns deportados e outros presos; quando menores são levados para lares adotivos;
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ou mandados de prisão do ICE. Cada vez +prisões oportunistas ou 'colaterais' têm ocorrido. Pessoas têm sido ligadas a gangues, sem provas. Migrantes são deportados sem devido processo legal, sem concordar, sem consultar advogado ou a oportunidade de se apresentar ante um juiz de imigração", explicou
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At the same time, this is not the Jim Crow South or Apartheid South Africa, so many in the public do not buy these stereotypes and the general criminalization of Latino immigrants, and are pushing back against this narrative and actions.
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but not for immigration officers on the streets, at airports, and other ports of entry.
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Nonetheless, for many years, anti-immigrant media campaigns have partially succeeded in conflating immorality & criminality with being an immigrant of color. Some immigrants believed they could be perceived as exceptional. That may be the case for the people who know them,
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To me, this is an issue of creating unnecessary hurdles to integration and personal suffering. One aspect that comprehensive immigration reform could address.
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Kagan added, warning that they can open the door to abuses, including racial profiling and the arrest of US citizens. “It’s about immigration enforcement becoming indiscriminate and just targeting whoever they can get their hands on, rather than a more targeted approach.”
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"ICE is typically required to have a warrant before they arrest someone. Although not illegal, the practice of collateral arrests without a warrant has been less common, due to heightened legal requirements."
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*dangerous
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#booksky
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Post AltText. Images are clips from a TV interview Castaneda did with Reuben Jones, Spectrum News where they talk about the issues in the posts here and on the linked story.
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It isn't about Trump winning or losing a symbolic victory or a whim, but about people suffering unnecessarily. But yes, the Supreme Court didn't make a final decision on the issue & a agrees case may go the other way and hold protections in place. But on the meantime it's allowing prob deportations!
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As I told Spectrum News, they came here legally, using a government program, and following the steps they were told to. Circumstances in their countries have not improved.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that the effect is "to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims."
Lawyers opposing called these moves "the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history."
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#socialstudies #sociologysky #academicsky #historysky #contentiouspolitics #dedemocratization #democraticerosion #socialmovementstudies
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His modular multicausal theorizing makes Tilly’s work widely applicable across historical and geographic contexts. Correcting misunderstandings about Tilly’s theoretical aims and providing a compelling theory for social change."
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From intro, "It sketches a Tillyian metatheory of historical social change—or more exactly, a set of compatible non-mutually exclusive middle-range theories. A library of factors conditioning a set of outcomes.
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Soon after immigration agents dragged a Salvadoran teenager from a Church in LA after an outcry by parishioners, the local INS Director produced an order, “in essence, saying the church is a sanctuary” (Blitzer 2024:69). Marking the birth of the modern sanctuary movement
aulablog.net/2025/05/30/w...
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIpNP5mw3Ow
Written story:
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So, even if they deport all the criminals who are already in prison, detained, or could be detained, this mass deportation that Trump was promising wouldn't happen. So they have to deport non-criminals," said Castañeda, a professor at American University
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"entonces no se deportan a todos los criminales que ya están en cárcel, ya están detenidos o se podrían detener. No se haría esta deportación masiva que estaba prometiendo Trump. Entonces tienen que deportar a los no criminales".