Yael Schacher
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.
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I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
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What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Public Inspection: Temporary Protected Status: Haiti
Temporary Protected Status: Haiti
www.federalregister.gov
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Agree with this.
The power move for Boasberg would be to say, "Thanks Counsel, but I'll find my own answers. Have Mr. Ensign in my courtroom Monday." He can put Noem in ice for now.
This sure seems like a deliberate choice to dare Boasberg into trying to do something against Noem, which they expect would get slapped down.
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Agree with this.
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Special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Bowser isn’t running!
I hope my councilwoman in Ward 4, Janeese Lewis George, makes a run for it! let’s go!
I hope my councilwoman in Ward 4, Janeese Lewis George, makes a run for it! let’s go!
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Bowser isn’t running!
I hope my councilwoman in Ward 4, Janeese Lewis George, makes a run for it! let’s go!
I hope my councilwoman in Ward 4, Janeese Lewis George, makes a run for it! let’s go!
DHS thinks they can do whatever they want — this is not referring to immigrants it’s referring to American citizens.
Benny Johnson shows up 8 times in Sara Ellis' opinion, partly by capturing Noem and Bovino saying illegal shit.
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![On October 3, 2025, Secretary Noem spoke to agents at the Broadview facility before
they began their shift. She said:
When we leave here, we’re going to go hard. We’re going to
hammer these guys who are advocating for violence against the
American people. What they are doing is advocating to harm not
just you and your colleagues but your families and they’re doxing
your identities and victimizing people every day by the way that
they’re talking, speaking, who they’re affiliated with, who they’re
funded with, and what they’re talking about as far as consequences
for what we’re doing by protecting this country. So we’re going to
go out there and we’re going to make sure that there’s
consequences for the way that they’re behaving, and then we’re
going to prosecute them. We’re going to bring them to justice.
We’re not taking this anymore. . . . We’re going to give you guys
all the authority that you need to arrest these individuals who are
advocating for violence against you.
Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson), X (Oct. 3, 2025 1:05 p.m.), https://x.com/bennyjohnson/
status/1974174065985470970. Bovino followed up by telling the agents:
You’re going to be put in full effect . . . That crowd there is, is an
unsafe crowd on either side. . . . And when they resist, what
happens? They get arrested. So it’s now going to be a free arrest
zone. And, I’ll give them one warning that that’ll be for safety of,
of us and the Secretary to leave. So they’re getting it here as soon
as we leave.
Id. Secretary Noem finished by stating, “[m]ake sure that these individuals are not allowed to
conduct this kind of activity anymore.” Id.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreig2d3dv5uenevfeysdwtzufmkdzaesuprpyomamh3fmnnaq3xq3se@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
DHS thinks they can do whatever they want — this is not referring to immigrants it’s referring to American citizens.
I mean this is out of Catch -22.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I mean this is out of Catch -22.
At a Congressional Hearing, Residents Detail the Trauma of the L.A. Raids
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Spent a morning in an archive of a R MOC in mid 1990s. Several files.
Every us historian has seen a file folder at a politicians papers filled with the racist, deluded ramblings of weird old white men, anyway those guys hold all power in our country now
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Spent a morning in an archive of a R MOC in mid 1990s. Several files.
Yeah and Judge Cobb is WICKED SMART. So he better learn her name.
Quite telling that Miller assumes the judge is male (“himself”). Or he read Kyle’s use of “she” but decided to amend it because women can’t be judges in his feeble mind.
This is Judge Jia Cobb.
This is Judge Jia Cobb.
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Yeah and Judge Cobb is WICKED SMART. So he better learn her name.
It stems from a eugenic idea that there is something called “alien crime” that can never be redeemed, it’s inherent to the people who commit it. It’s racist, crazy.
They truly believe this! Like when they arrest a noncitizen who committed a crime years ago and has been out of prison for a decade, they put out a press release claiming they saved the public from a serious threat, even if the person has been law-abiding for years and is a random ex-con doing well.
To paraphrase what an ICE field director said at a Texas hiring event earlier this year: what makes ICE different from other law enforcement officers is that we catch criminals "before" a crime is committed.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It stems from a eugenic idea that there is something called “alien crime” that can never be redeemed, it’s inherent to the people who commit it. It’s racist, crazy.
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"The father of four, an immigrant from Afghanistan who helped the U.S. military fight the Taliban, is in a Springfield, Missouri, jail — held with other immigrants picked up in nationwide sweeps. Dadfar is 37 and an asylum-seeker with work authorization." https://bit.ly/4rxmaL8.
Afghan asylum seeker who fought the Taliban now held by ICE in Missouri
A Kansas City-based immigration attorney has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mohammad Ali Dadfar’s warrantless arrest and detention. Hundreds of immigrant detainees have been ordered released beca...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"The father of four, an immigrant from Afghanistan who helped the U.S. military fight the Taliban, is in a Springfield, Missouri, jail — held with other immigrants picked up in nationwide sweeps. Dadfar is 37 and an asylum-seeker with work authorization." https://bit.ly/4rxmaL8.
This is my neighborhood! Furious
Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is my neighborhood! Furious
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
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White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
Kilmar case has been a series of mistakes by govt— in original removal order, in removal despite withholding— and now govt assigned his asylum case to “asylum free” zone of Atlanta and insists on Liberia over Costa Rica as country of removal. All for reasons Ensign conveniently can’t explain. JFC
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Kilmar case has been a series of mistakes by govt— in original removal order, in removal despite withholding— and now govt assigned his asylum case to “asylum free” zone of Atlanta and insists on Liberia over Costa Rica as country of removal. All for reasons Ensign conveniently can’t explain. JFC
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
In Chicago. Forgot how grand the buildings are here. What an amazing city
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
In Chicago. Forgot how grand the buildings are here. What an amazing city
This nurse from Maryland was on one of the recent flights to Ghana transferring third country nationals— under a still undisclosed agreement with the U.S.
Certainly, she is not “worst of the worst.” Certainly her treatment in Ghana does not reflect solidarity and concern with fellow West Africans.
Certainly, she is not “worst of the worst.” Certainly her treatment in Ghana does not reflect solidarity and concern with fellow West Africans.
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This nurse from Maryland was on one of the recent flights to Ghana transferring third country nationals— under a still undisclosed agreement with the U.S.
Certainly, she is not “worst of the worst.” Certainly her treatment in Ghana does not reflect solidarity and concern with fellow West Africans.
Certainly, she is not “worst of the worst.” Certainly her treatment in Ghana does not reflect solidarity and concern with fellow West Africans.
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The construction of prisons in rural areas can create relationships in which residents ultimately become engulfed by incarceration. “The prison almost begins to imprison the community in a way,” says a prison researcher.
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The construction of prisons in rural areas can create relationships in which residents ultimately become engulfed by incarceration. “The prison almost begins to imprison the community in a way,” says a prison researcher.
They call immigration judges deportation judges now and want like anybody to apply.
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YOU BE THE JUDGE | Department of Justice
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November 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
They call immigration judges deportation judges now and want like anybody to apply.
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listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win