William Lopez
@wdlopez.bsky.social
Prof UM School of Public Health | Write about immigration | Partner | Dad to 2+🐶 | He/Him 💖💜💙 | insta: @DrLopezOnImmigration
Here are a few helpful phrases and facts if the immigration conversation gets tense at the dinner table.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Here are a few helpful phrases and facts if the immigration conversation gets tense at the dinner table.
If you've read Raiding the Heartland (or plan to read it over break), I'd love to talk about it with you! Join me on January 22nd at Brad Thomson's law office for a book discussion and free pizza : )
Can’t be there in person? Join online.
Can’t be there in person? Join online.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If you've read Raiding the Heartland (or plan to read it over break), I'd love to talk about it with you! Join me on January 22nd at Brad Thomson's law office for a book discussion and free pizza : )
Can’t be there in person? Join online.
Can’t be there in person? Join online.
Ways to support immigrant communities:
1. Donate to advocacy orgs
2. Attend a KYR training
3. Educate yourself (read!)
4. If there's enforcement in your area, consider offering to pick up groceries, take kids to school, etc.
5. Vote like your life (and those of your neighbors) depends on it!
1. Donate to advocacy orgs
2. Attend a KYR training
3. Educate yourself (read!)
4. If there's enforcement in your area, consider offering to pick up groceries, take kids to school, etc.
5. Vote like your life (and those of your neighbors) depends on it!
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ways to support immigrant communities:
1. Donate to advocacy orgs
2. Attend a KYR training
3. Educate yourself (read!)
4. If there's enforcement in your area, consider offering to pick up groceries, take kids to school, etc.
5. Vote like your life (and those of your neighbors) depends on it!
1. Donate to advocacy orgs
2. Attend a KYR training
3. Educate yourself (read!)
4. If there's enforcement in your area, consider offering to pick up groceries, take kids to school, etc.
5. Vote like your life (and those of your neighbors) depends on it!
If you never cared about immigration until you saw a video of someone picked up off the street, or a mother taken from her child’s arms, or a family arrested at the courthouse, it’s OK. Today is a perfect day to learn about deportation.
And today is the perfect day to start doing something about it.
And today is the perfect day to start doing something about it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If you never cared about immigration until you saw a video of someone picked up off the street, or a mother taken from her child’s arms, or a family arrested at the courthouse, it’s OK. Today is a perfect day to learn about deportation.
And today is the perfect day to start doing something about it.
And today is the perfect day to start doing something about it.
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there may well be more citizens showing up here in Charlotte to learn how to peacefully resist Trump’s indiscriminate mass deportation effort than federal agents on the ground here, as we saw firsthand last night.
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
there may well be more citizens showing up here in Charlotte to learn how to peacefully resist Trump’s indiscriminate mass deportation effort than federal agents on the ground here, as we saw firsthand last night.
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We can and must do more to protect the health of immigrant communities. Here's how:
Mitigating The Health Impacts Of Exclusionary Immigration Policies: An Evidence Review | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/content/brie... by @nolankline.bsky.social @wdlopez.bsky.social
Mitigating The Health Impacts Of Exclusionary Immigration Policies: An Evidence Review | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/content/brie... by @nolankline.bsky.social @wdlopez.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We can and must do more to protect the health of immigrant communities. Here's how:
Mitigating The Health Impacts Of Exclusionary Immigration Policies: An Evidence Review | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/content/brie... by @nolankline.bsky.social @wdlopez.bsky.social
Mitigating The Health Impacts Of Exclusionary Immigration Policies: An Evidence Review | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/content/brie... by @nolankline.bsky.social @wdlopez.bsky.social
If you didn’t learn about ICE until today and have no data on deportation, you can still make an argument against what’s going on right now. Let me show you.
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you didn’t learn about ICE until today and have no data on deportation, you can still make an argument against what’s going on right now. Let me show you.
Spent the weekend in Mount Pleasant—the same Iowa city we visited in 2018 after it was hit by a massive ICE raid.
If researching deportation has taught me anything, it’s this: communities, are strong, creative, and resourceful. They never asked to be heroes. But if you make them, they will.
If researching deportation has taught me anything, it’s this: communities, are strong, creative, and resourceful. They never asked to be heroes. But if you make them, they will.
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Spent the weekend in Mount Pleasant—the same Iowa city we visited in 2018 after it was hit by a massive ICE raid.
If researching deportation has taught me anything, it’s this: communities, are strong, creative, and resourceful. They never asked to be heroes. But if you make them, they will.
If researching deportation has taught me anything, it’s this: communities, are strong, creative, and resourceful. They never asked to be heroes. But if you make them, they will.
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I am starting an Immigration and Education starter pack. DM me or comment below if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/4pkTW9j
October 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am starting an Immigration and Education starter pack. DM me or comment below if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/4pkTW9j
A haunted house but it’s just congress getting along and giving people their SNAP benefits so it’s totally surprising and borderline unbelievable but not scary.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A haunted house but it’s just congress getting along and giving people their SNAP benefits so it’s totally surprising and borderline unbelievable but not scary.
What (re(re(re)))radicalized me?
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
October 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What (re(re(re)))radicalized me?
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
As a researcher, I pay attention to new words and phrases US media (English and Spanish) now has to use to describe US politics: "ICE round-up," "immigration sweeps," and "narcolancha" are now regularly in circulation. Telling.
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As a researcher, I pay attention to new words and phrases US media (English and Spanish) now has to use to describe US politics: "ICE round-up," "immigration sweeps," and "narcolancha" are now regularly in circulation. Telling.
These children--like all children caught in the middle of immigration enforcement--will carry these mental scars with them forever.
Three young children fled from an ICE raid in Idaho and managed to reunite with their family.
"I didn't get caught," boy says
"I didn't get caught," boy says
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
These children--like all children caught in the middle of immigration enforcement--will carry these mental scars with them forever.
Reposted by William Lopez
In this op-ed, @wdlopez.bsky.social of @umich.edu says that recent mass deportations will lead to severe social and economic repercussions. He writes about the resistance efforts led by those who have supported families impacted by ICE raids.
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
Mass Deportation Has Begun, But So Has Mass Resistance
How rural communities resist ICE and support their neighbors.
time.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In this op-ed, @wdlopez.bsky.social of @umich.edu says that recent mass deportations will lead to severe social and economic repercussions. He writes about the resistance efforts led by those who have supported families impacted by ICE raids.
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
Reposted by William Lopez
"From large cities like Los Angeles to small, rural towns like O’Neill, Neb., communities have come together...to resist the cruelty and chaos of mass deportation," writes William D. Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social), author of "Raiding the Heartland." @TIME. time.com/7319484/immi...
Mass Deportation Has Begun, But So Has Mass Resistance
How rural communities resist ICE and support their neighbors.
time.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"From large cities like Los Angeles to small, rural towns like O’Neill, Neb., communities have come together...to resist the cruelty and chaos of mass deportation," writes William D. Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social), author of "Raiding the Heartland." @TIME. time.com/7319484/immi...
Happy book birthday, a.k.a. publication day, to Raiding the Heartland: American Story of Deportation and Resistance!
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy book birthday, a.k.a. publication day, to Raiding the Heartland: American Story of Deportation and Resistance!
This was a fantastic interview with @motherjones.com. Thanks to Isabela for spending an hour on Zoom to ask great questions about the book and its relevance tot he Hyundai raid in Ellabell.
"Communities don’t sit around and let removal and separation happen," @wdlopez.bsky.social tells @motherjones.com.
His book "Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance" is out next week! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
His book "Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance" is out next week! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The “chaos and cruelty” of Trump’s worksite immigration raids
A scholar looked at how the enforcement tactic upends communities, leaving many feeling “like a tornado” hit their town.
www.motherjones.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This was a fantastic interview with @motherjones.com. Thanks to Isabela for spending an hour on Zoom to ask great questions about the book and its relevance tot he Hyundai raid in Ellabell.
Drove through a Saline, MI today. Every community of every size has a voice. We love to see it. #IceIsCruel #ChingaLaMigra
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Drove through a Saline, MI today. Every community of every size has a voice. We love to see it. #IceIsCruel #ChingaLaMigra
Breaking news at the CDC.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid:
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
August 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Breaking news at the CDC.
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📢Big news: Human Impact Partners is now Health in Partnership! Same mission, values, & commitments — new name & look that better reflect who we are today: grounded in relationships & building power for health equity in deep partnership with others.
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
May 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📢Big news: Human Impact Partners is now Health in Partnership! Same mission, values, & commitments — new name & look that better reflect who we are today: grounded in relationships & building power for health equity in deep partnership with others.
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
What’s it like to be in the National Guard right now?
August 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
What’s it like to be in the National Guard right now?
Remember, without due process, saying Abrego Garcia is a gang member is just an opinion. #abregogarcia
August 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Remember, without due process, saying Abrego Garcia is a gang member is just an opinion. #abregogarcia
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It's here! It's hard to relay the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time.
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
August 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It's here! It's hard to relay the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time.
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
August 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It's here! It's hard to relay the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time.
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )