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.
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.
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!
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
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 : )
DHS actively expelling people from a place they belong.
July 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
DHS actively expelling people from a place they belong.
Of course the right is locked in on the Epstein files.
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
July 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Of course the right is locked in on the Epstein files.
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
July 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Some recent #deportation -related comics. #ArtIsActivism
July 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some recent #deportation -related comics. #ArtIsActivism
Hard to believe this dystopian time we live in.
July 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hard to believe this dystopian time we live in.
Good example of data used to criminalize immigrants even when it argues the opposite. Undocumented immigrants make up 3% of the US population but 0.008% of those arrested (2/264). The article suggests they are criminals (and worse) despite providing a much lower population rate of criminality.
July 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Good example of data used to criminalize immigrants even when it argues the opposite. Undocumented immigrants make up 3% of the US population but 0.008% of those arrested (2/264). The article suggests they are criminals (and worse) despite providing a much lower population rate of criminality.
excited for my copy of @grivlin.bsky.social's AI Valley... I tend to distrust The Robots (hence I am always polite to Siri) but realize I need a more nuanced view of things.
Gary has been a great writing mentor and I hope to write one tenth as quickly as he does one day. Congrats Gary!
Gary has been a great writing mentor and I hope to write one tenth as quickly as he does one day. Congrats Gary!
April 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
excited for my copy of @grivlin.bsky.social's AI Valley... I tend to distrust The Robots (hence I am always polite to Siri) but realize I need a more nuanced view of things.
Gary has been a great writing mentor and I hope to write one tenth as quickly as he does one day. Congrats Gary!
Gary has been a great writing mentor and I hope to write one tenth as quickly as he does one day. Congrats Gary!
Who watching their kids’ sports this AM?
October 7, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Who watching their kids’ sports this AM?
