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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 12h

John Washington has been doing some incredibly impactful storytelling on borders, immigration, and now enforced disappearance. Check out his latest piece and be sure to follow him.

John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 19h

On forced disappearance in Guatemala and the United States
open.substack.com/pub/johnwash...

“I Know You Want to Find Me, But You’re Not Going To”

On disappearances in Guatemala and the United States

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 12h

John Washington has been doing some incredibly impactful storytelling on borders, immigration, and now enforced disappearance. Check out his latest piece and be sure to follow him.

John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 19h

On forced disappearance in Guatemala and the United States
open.substack.com/pub/johnwash...

“I Know You Want to Find Me, But You’re Not Going To”

On disappearances in Guatemala and the United States

open.substack.com

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 2d

It’s here! My first solo published article is available online and in print. This article is the origin of my research on enforced disappearances of migrants that I began 3.5 years ago. Its relevance has only grown in importance. I hope you’ll take a look: digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vo...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

There could be solid ICE counter-recruitment campaigns launched to discourage people from working for them and to encourage those working for them to quit. There are lots of examples of such campaigns from anti-war organizing.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 2d

It’s here! My first solo published article is available online and in print. This article is the origin of my research on enforced disappearances of migrants that I began 3.5 years ago. Its relevance has only grown in importance. I hope you’ll take a look: digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vo...

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 2d

In protesting peacefully we reclaim our cities and communities from state brutality. These are our spaces, our homes.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 10d

I once entered Nogales, Sonora on the border w/Nogales, AZ. As I neared the port of entry, I saw a billboard ad to work for CBP. The person in the ad was outfitted like Rambo. CBP, & BP in particular, has always attracted people who think their job is to be a part of a goon squad.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 10d

I think that’s part of it. US exceptionalism explains both why we don’t sign human rights treaties and also supports what you said.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

When I started this research over 3.5 years ago, I had no idea it would lead to general allegations by the UN WGEID, joint allegations by multiple UN human rights experts, amicus briefing at the Mexican Supreme Court…. digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vo...

SOUTH TO JUSTICE: USING INTERNATIONAL LAW TO DEFEND AGAINST U.S. BORDER EXTERNALIZATION POLICIES THROUGH THE EXAMPLE OF FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED MIGRANTS IN MEXICO

The United States is increasingly employing border externalization controls as a primary means of preventing immigrants and asylum seekers from accessing due process and protection on U.S. soil. From ...

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t know where it comes from, but in the US, people don’t see civil rights as a branch of human rights like the rest of the world. It’s why you’ll hear the phrase “civil and human rights” here, which is a lot like saying “apples and fruit.”

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 12d

Taking inspiration from this.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 12d

In my “Fine, I’ll do it myself” - era.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

If you’re a lawyer and you have an idea about how we can create a more just legal system, we need you, counselor in the courts standing beside your clients, to write about it. Practitioners’ voices are some of the most underrepresented in legal academia, but they shouldn’t be.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

Researchers bear an important responsibility of using their skills to create a record of truth for the benefit of society, and it doesn’t just have to be professors. Practitioners, too, can contribute to the essential literatures that we rely on to drive sound policy.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

It also helped me establish coalitions with other NGOs to engage with international human rights monitoring institutions and allowed me to co-author an interdisciplinary study of enforced disappearances in CBP custody, resulting in another peer-reviewed publication and a policy report *this year.*

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

… changes to the ICE detainee locator, a hearing before the Inter-American Commission, and proof that the men sent to CECOT were held under US government control. Research can spur incredible advocacy opportunities that were previously unavailable.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

When I started this research over 3.5 years ago, I had no idea it would lead to general allegations by the UN WGEID, joint allegations by multiple UN human rights experts, amicus briefing at the Mexican Supreme Court…. digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vo...

SOUTH TO JUSTICE: USING INTERNATIONAL LAW TO DEFEND AGAINST U.S. BORDER EXTERNALIZATION POLICIES THROUGH THE EXAMPLE OF FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED MIGRANTS IN MEXICO

The United States is increasingly employing border externalization controls as a primary means of preventing immigrants and asylum seekers from accessing due process and protection on U.S. soil. From ...

digitalcommons.law.scu.edu

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

Some lunch-break news: The article I started writing over 3.5 years ago and that was accepted for publication in early 2024 has finally been published! It’s produced so many successful advocacy opportunities, and is one of my proudest achievements: digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vo...

SOUTH TO JUSTICE: USING INTERNATIONAL LAW TO DEFEND AGAINST U.S. BORDER EXTERNALIZATION POLICIES THROUGH THE EXAMPLE OF FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED MIGRANTS IN MEXICO

The United States is increasingly employing border externalization controls as a primary means of preventing immigrants and asylum seekers from accessing due process and protection on U.S. soil. From ...

digitalcommons.law.scu.edu

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

And we must push for state, local, and federal legislation to prevent enforced disappearances and other human rights violations and ensure remedies for victims and accountability for perpetrators.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

We must document enforced disappearances and other violations of international human rights law in the United States. We must work with human rights advocates in other countries to fight back against border externalization policies.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

Enforced disappearances of migrants have long been a tool of US border management, but we are now seeing this weapon applied in more diverse, cruel, and alarming ways in the interior. This expansion of what often amounts to a crime against humanity is a call to action.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 14d

Some lunch-break news: The article I started writing over 3.5 years ago and that was accepted for publication in early 2024 has finally been published! It’s produced so many successful advocacy opportunities, and is one of my proudest achievements: digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vo...

SOUTH TO JUSTICE: USING INTERNATIONAL LAW TO DEFEND AGAINST U.S. BORDER EXTERNALIZATION POLICIES THROUGH THE EXAMPLE OF FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED MIGRANTS IN MEXICO

The United States is increasingly employing border externalization controls as a primary means of preventing immigrants and asylum seekers from accessing due process and protection on U.S. soil. From ...

digitalcommons.law.scu.edu

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 20d

“Marquette Hawkins, California City mayor, said on Thursday that CoreCivic did not have the proper permits or business license to operate the facility and that its application is still pending.” I’m sorry, what did I just read?

Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 20d

This is a great example why the fiscal year average that ICE uses to report the detained population can be so misleading. There are around 500 people at California City. Not 20.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 20d

This “enemy from within” language is horrifically dangerous. It hearkens to the military dictatorships of Southern Cone countries like Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, in which “subversives” (leftists or people suspected of leftist thoughts) were mass disappeared, tortured, and murdered.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21d

For more background on the use of enforced disappearance as a border management tool in the US, check out my and my co-author’s article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Enforced Disappearance as a Border Management Tool: The Case of Border Patrol Detentions of Immigrant and Asylum-Seeking Families in the United States1 - Diego F. Leal, Natalie L. Cadwalader, 2025

Executive Summary This study examines the experiences of international migrants and asylum-seeker families recently released from the custody of the United Stat...

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