Elliott Young
@elliottyoung.bsky.social
Borderlands and Transnational Migration historian at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Expert witness for asylum. Tepoztlán Institute. Migration Scholar Collaborative. Stanford Migration & Asylum Lab. Author of Forever Prisoners, and Alien Nation.
Sign of the times.
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Sign of the times.
Ross Dipshit with another hot take.
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ross Dipshit with another hot take.
Not even Trump’s $20 billion is going to save Milei from destroying the Argentine economy. The peso is plummeting.
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Not even Trump’s $20 billion is going to save Milei from destroying the Argentine economy. The peso is plummeting.
Dangerous professors Marla Ramirez, Kevin Johnson, and me talking about Race, Immigration, and Mass Removals at UW, Madison. Shhh. Don’t tell Stephen Miller.
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Dangerous professors Marla Ramirez, Kevin Johnson, and me talking about Race, Immigration, and Mass Removals at UW, Madison. Shhh. Don’t tell Stephen Miller.
Five military fighter jets just took off from Portland international airport. Are they going to strike “war-ravaged” Portland?
October 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Five military fighter jets just took off from Portland international airport. Are they going to strike “war-ravaged” Portland?
Trump’s coming for the US dollar.
August 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump’s coming for the US dollar.
This is what appeasement looks like.
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is what appeasement looks like.
Northern District Court in California not down with linking immigrants to white replacement theory in ruling blocking Trump’s rescission of TPS for Nepal, Nicaragua, and Honduras.
August 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Northern District Court in California not down with linking immigrants to white replacement theory in ruling blocking Trump’s rescission of TPS for Nepal, Nicaragua, and Honduras.
Not a Native American in sight. Even John Gast’s Manifest Destiny depicted Native Americans as a receding presence. Wyt washed history.
July 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not a Native American in sight. Even John Gast’s Manifest Destiny depicted Native Americans as a receding presence. Wyt washed history.
No Kings Portland was off the chain. Un chingo de gente.
June 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
No Kings Portland was off the chain. Un chingo de gente.
Three hours ago, an immigrant was arrested in Manzanita, OR, and he is supposedly being held in ICE detention in Portland. His name is Luis Rodriguez. Here is a photo of the vehicle that was used to abduct him.
June 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Three hours ago, an immigrant was arrested in Manzanita, OR, and he is supposedly being held in ICE detention in Portland. His name is Luis Rodriguez. Here is a photo of the vehicle that was used to abduct him.
Tomorrow in Portland, I'll be talking about the film Simón and Venezuelan migration to the US.
May 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Tomorrow in Portland, I'll be talking about the film Simón and Venezuelan migration to the US.
Call it what you will, but this is atrocious.
May 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Call it what you will, but this is atrocious.
Check out this panel at Yale Public Humanities Working Group discussing migrant mass incarceration, with @briannanofil.bsky.social, Harold Solis, and me. The intrepid Alicia Schmidt Camacho will be moderating.
April 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Check out this panel at Yale Public Humanities Working Group discussing migrant mass incarceration, with @briannanofil.bsky.social, Harold Solis, and me. The intrepid Alicia Schmidt Camacho will be moderating.
Congratulations to @briannanofil.bsky.social for winning the Saloutos Award and first book award for The Migrant’s Jail book.
April 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Congratulations to @briannanofil.bsky.social for winning the Saloutos Award and first book award for The Migrant’s Jail book.
Chicago: Fixed it.
April 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Chicago: Fixed it.
HANDS OFF. Chicago rally
April 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
HANDS OFF. Chicago rally
Trump got to the fortune cookies.
April 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Trump got to the fortune cookies.
Judge smacks down pretty shoddy filing by government accusing woman of being a senior leader of Tren de Aragua because a decade ago she was married to someone who was a gang member.
March 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Judge smacks down pretty shoddy filing by government accusing woman of being a senior leader of Tren de Aragua because a decade ago she was married to someone who was a gang member.
DOJ at the stage where they are torturing the definition of “removal” to justify the torturing of migrants in El Salvador.
March 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
DOJ at the stage where they are torturing the definition of “removal” to justify the torturing of migrants in El Salvador.
The airplanes were not in El Salvador when Judge Boasberg issued his order to return them to the United States.
March 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The airplanes were not in El Salvador when Judge Boasberg issued his order to return them to the United States.
Global X airline is transferring Venezuelans to one of the worlds most inhumane prisons in El Salvador, CECOT. This is a prison where Salvadorans are subject to beatings, inhumane conditions, and where dozens have died in custody.
March 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Global X airline is transferring Venezuelans to one of the worlds most inhumane prisons in El Salvador, CECOT. This is a prison where Salvadorans are subject to beatings, inhumane conditions, and where dozens have died in custody.
Investors have voted.
March 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Investors have voted.
Jelani Cobb is right, unfortunately.
March 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Jelani Cobb is right, unfortunately.
The entire case against Mahmoud Kahlil is based on Marco Rubio's unsubstantiated assertion that Kahlil's presence poses "adverse foreign policy consequences" to the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a...
www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a...
March 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The entire case against Mahmoud Kahlil is based on Marco Rubio's unsubstantiated assertion that Kahlil's presence poses "adverse foreign policy consequences" to the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a...
www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a...