Yael Schacher
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
That Hebrew sign in the background literally says “in God’s name,” which makes me even more uncomfortable
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
That Hebrew sign in the background literally says “in God’s name,” which makes me even more uncomfortable
All I have to say is that, like the press secretary with her crosses, she doesn’t need to wear the Jewish star as if she speaks for all Jews.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
All I have to say is that, like the press secretary with her crosses, she doesn’t need to wear the Jewish star as if she speaks for all Jews.
Also want to say: in an era of climate change— this admin has a strange understanding of “sustainable sovereignty.” They seem to want to go back a CENTURY and keep their heads in the sand
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Also want to say: in an era of climate change— this admin has a strange understanding of “sustainable sovereignty.” They seem to want to go back a CENTURY and keep their heads in the sand
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I AM LOSING MY MIND HERE. WE HAVE A CANADIAN SUCCESSFULLY OVERTURNING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT SCOTUS, AND NOW A BRIT IS HELPING ICE ROUND UP AUTO WASH WORKERS
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This is insane. The President of the Boston University College Republicans isn't even an American!! He's a Brit in the States on a Track and Field scholarship!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I AM LOSING MY MIND HERE. WE HAVE A CANADIAN SUCCESSFULLY OVERTURNING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT SCOTUS, AND NOW A BRIT IS HELPING ICE ROUND UP AUTO WASH WORKERS
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At the beginning of the millennium I told my undergrad mentor I was leaning toward two options professionally, journalism or academia. He said: I’ll write you a letter but please choose another. He was smart.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
At the beginning of the millennium I told my undergrad mentor I was leaning toward two options professionally, journalism or academia. He said: I’ll write you a letter but please choose another. He was smart.
H/t my colleague Abdullahi Halakhe
for sending me this by the African Commission calling out rights violating agreements and calling instead for true South-South cooperation.
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for sending me this by the African Commission calling out rights violating agreements and calling instead for true South-South cooperation.
achpr.au.int/en/adopted-r...
Resolution on the Obligations of African States in the Context of the Externalization of Migration Governance and the Extra-Regional Transfer of Migrants to Africa - ACHPR/Res.645 (LXXXV) 2025
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Commission), meeting at its 85th Ordinary Session, held from 7 to 30 October 2025 in Banjul, The Gambia;
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November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
H/t my colleague Abdullahi Halakhe
for sending me this by the African Commission calling out rights violating agreements and calling instead for true South-South cooperation.
achpr.au.int/en/adopted-r...
for sending me this by the African Commission calling out rights violating agreements and calling instead for true South-South cooperation.
achpr.au.int/en/adopted-r...
Want to emphasize, again, that the Democratic party’s position on enforcement at the border and asylum abuse has been pretty much the same since the early 1990s and some fresh ideas about the border are so so so overdue
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Want to emphasize, again, that the Democratic party’s position on enforcement at the border and asylum abuse has been pretty much the same since the early 1990s and some fresh ideas about the border are so so so overdue
I think to get to Congressional reform we are going to have to unify the Dems most of all. Because people are now turned off by what they are seeing. So how about let’s not keep blaming progressives? It’s so tiresome.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think to get to Congressional reform we are going to have to unify the Dems most of all. Because people are now turned off by what they are seeing. So how about let’s not keep blaming progressives? It’s so tiresome.
There is something to the idea that smugglers spur migration. Lots of people who maybe would’ve waited for a visa decided to get here faster. So Congress needed to do something about that— and didn’t. Biden didn’t want to talk about and deal w/ immigration but had to b/k Congress did nothing on it
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There is something to the idea that smugglers spur migration. Lots of people who maybe would’ve waited for a visa decided to get here faster. So Congress needed to do something about that— and didn’t. Biden didn’t want to talk about and deal w/ immigration but had to b/k Congress did nothing on it
Leonhardt also really shouldn’t play historian. COVID and Venezuela were major and they came in this Republican dominated moment. To say, oh we had Vietnam! That’s absurd. The Refugee Act of 1980– to deal with Vietnam— passed overwhelmingly, hugely bipartisan. Totally different context
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Leonhardt also really shouldn’t play historian. COVID and Venezuela were major and they came in this Republican dominated moment. To say, oh we had Vietnam! That’s absurd. The Refugee Act of 1980– to deal with Vietnam— passed overwhelmingly, hugely bipartisan. Totally different context