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Cardinal Robert McElroy has criticized the removal of immunity for houses of worship from immigration enforcement, calling it a "deep moral question."

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Medicaid is essential for millions of families

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I lasted an hour. I had to log off to maintain my sanity.

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This this this. And SSDI and SSI are also two different things.

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Medicaid and Medicare are not the same things and I’m begging you to learn the difference and use the right one.

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This was the most helpful and actionable workshop I’ve attend. A huge thank you to @kangborderlaw.bsky.social!

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“This lawsuit—historic in its scope and breadth, representing millions of people and tens of thousands of houses of worship—approaches the sensitive locations policy from the standpoint of religious freedom.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

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The birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment leaves Native Americans outside of its coverage out of respect for Indigenous sovereignty Native citizenship. That story is very complex. Please listen & read Native history scholars! cc @kevinkenny.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social

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NEH just canceled a webinar in Denver on writing grants. The calendar invite was revoked with this msg: “We are sorry to cancel the NEH Regional Application-Writing Workshop on Feb 20-21. We received word this morning from Dan Sack, Deputy Director of the Division of Research Programs that...

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I cannot overstate how unusual it is for a Pope to offer such a critique of a nation’s immigration policies. Catholic groups have long received federal $ to administer federal initiatives to help migrants. This work does not turn a financial profit. It helps people. www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...

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From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

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Not to minimize what catastrophic damage is happening in science and medicine with funding, but your humanities colleagues have been in this defund and delegitimize spiral for a decade or more. We have lost tenure lines despite increased enrollment. When they attack higher ed, it’s an attack

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Sanctuary cities throw a wrench in Trump’s mass deportation plan. Here Sergio & I explain why they’re more important now than ever. Please share w/comm leaders even if they already support sanctuary. Misinfo has maligned this timely, effective, & legal tactic. arcmag.org/let-us-now-p...

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The wording of this decision is crystal clear. “The President cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via executive order.”

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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan... mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...

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AAUP statement www.aaup.org/report/again...

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Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled. For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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A huge thank you to @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social for bringing his fantastic research and new book on Texas history to Baylor University! Can’t wait for this book to be released, @yalebooks.bsky.social

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In the three days since Trump was sworn in, the Immigration Policy Tracking Project has tracked 57 policy actions related to immigration. These range from attempting to upend the 14th amendment to reinstating policies from his first term. immpolicytracking.org/policies/?pa...

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For a millennia, places of worship have been a place for people to claim sanctuary across the world.

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Some media characterizing Trump's exec order to end birthright citizenship as being about children born to undocumented immigrants That understates how extreme this EO is. It also denies citizenship to kids born of immigrants here legally, but without green cards (on H1Bs, student visas, etc.)

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This is and will be an important resource to bookmark for anyone whose life is touched by migration or for those who work with migrants.

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Humanitarian volunteers encountered the body of a 46-year-old woman, who had recently died of unknown causes, on Monday morning at a remote area along the southern border wall, east of

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New from me: The Laken Riley Act could hand decisions about the enforcement of many immigration laws to state attorneys general and any one of 677 federal district judges around the country; including decisions to issue visa bans to entire nations. The consequences could be extremely far-reaching.

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For the last year, I’ve been pushing the FBI + CIA to release files on their surveillance of the Latino civil rights movement. This week, the CIA released documents with new info about their efforts to obstruct the work of organizations that fought for civil rights. 1/ www.axios.com/2025/01/06/c...

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“Mexico is launching a smartphone app that allows Mexican migrants to warn relatives and instantly alert the nearest consulate if U.S. immigration agents detain them, officials said Friday.”

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Please circulate: CFP for Western History Dissertation Workshop. This is an exceptional chance for advanced grad students working on a western history topic to get feedback from leading scholars in the field and to do it in the Arcadian paradise that is the Huntington Library.

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A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant. I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester. Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

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🗃️ This is how Mexican Americans—US citizens—were ALSO forcibly removed during the 1930s campaigns. Mixed-status families with non-citizen parents and citizen children were coerced by authorities into leaving the US. Reading I use in my MexAm history class in thread.

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academic.oup.com/jah/article-... My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence

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If you haven’t yet gotten ahold of Ana Minian’s In the Shadow of Liberty, do it. This history of immigrant detention is beautifully and sensitively written, and meticulously researched. It’s a desperately needed book and critical for understanding immigration policy.

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1/ HOW TO TRIAGE AN IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY As someone who has been defending non-citizens in deportation proceedings since 2006, I am here to tell you that we know exactly who Trump's top targets will be, & how we can try to protect them NOW. NOT LEGAL ADVICE but here's what we know about priorities

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Here's a book on that landmark SCOTUS case by Carol Nackenoff and @jnovkov.bsky.social , Univ of Kansas Press. It puts the case into historical, political, and doctrinal context.

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Trump's been threatening this John Eastman special (literally, he's one of the main proponents) for a while and IMHO it has about as much chance of success as John Eastman's nutty legal theories around the 2020 election. It is not a winner and not something even most FedSoc judges believe in.

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@katelynknox.bsky.social’s dissertation-to-book curriculum was so helpful to me as I began to imagine what the book manuscript could do! Can’t recommend this enough… Thanks for this incredible book, Katelyn!!

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Thrilled to help kick off the terrific "Speech & the Border" @knightcolumbia.org podcast series with George Wang in Ep. 1, featuring my research on ideological exclusion/deportation & activist Ravi Ragbir, who challenged his retaliatory deportation under Trump 1.0 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Blight’s op ed is wrong, the reckoning places like Yale needs is to look inward and recognize that these institutions aren’t outside the history that brought us here but part of it. Yale made Vance and half the court for gods sake. And there are working people at Yale.

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