Migration Scholar Collaborative

MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

MiSC vehemently rejects the war on immigrants and peaceful protestors in Los Angeles.

What we're witnessing is worsening anti-immigrant policies, with intensified enforcement.

Read MiSC's full statement below:

https://t.co/rsfcAAkgJL

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

🚨 NEW and horrible: BIA doubles down on Matter of Yajure Hurtado and holds that neither prior designation as an UIC or approved Special Juvenile petition alter the 235(b) mandatory detention designation and orders the bond granted by the IJ vacated and the 21 years old non-citizen -- who has an approved SIIJ and appears prima facie eligible for adjustment of status -- detained without bond. JFC!

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Not only is birthright citizenship enshrined in the United States Constitution by the 14th Amendment, but it has also greatly benefited the US economy, explains Cato’s Michelangelo Landgrave. A new study estimates the economic impact of birthright citizens’ incomes to be $7.7 trillion.
https://t.co/iQGk5ssPyn

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

A new series rolling out on https://t.co/vkWloz37Ae, "Fascism's Building Blocks," was commissioned by MiSC members @ANaomiPaik and Catherine S. Ramírez and examines the laws and practices that paved the way for today's emergent fascism. Check it out! https://t.co/fMvB7H7F8l

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

While ICE states that they provide "safe, secure, and humane environments" for all detainees (from statement on Gonzalez's death), 18 deaths in 4 months is no accident. No amount of bureaucratized language can hide the systemic violence against migrants.
https://t.co/oIeaec3Qm3

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

Earlier today, ICE revealed that on April 28, 2026, Denny Adan Gonzalez (a 33-year old migrant from Cuba) died while in their custody. Gonzalez becomes the 18th person to have died in ICE detainment in 2026.

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

On April 12, 2026, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt died in ICE custody. How can we use the works of MiSC scholars such as @ackocher to contextualize this death, the deaths of the sixteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2026, and the criminalization of migration? 🧵

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

Language matters. Transparency matters. For frequent, accessible updates on immigration news, visit MiSC scholar Austin Kocher's (@ackocher) Stubstack to explore topics such as conditions in ICE containment camps and weekly highlights of immigration news. https://t.co/R8h64lE58U

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

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[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

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[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

On April 12, 2026, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt died in ICE custody. How can we use the works of MiSC scholars such as @ackocher to contextualize this death, the deaths of the sixteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2026, and the criminalization of migration? 🧵

[Emmet Livingstone @L4ingstone]

The 15 Latin Americans deported from the US to Kinshasa are holed up in a hotel by the airport, where there are water cuts, rats, and lots of mosquitoes. They have no passports, don't speak French, and have no idea what comes next. My story for @NPR: https://t.co/wlfVrqRMLd

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS

The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." https://t.co/iUKd8NPl4A

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.

https://t.co/1lXVAuO0Up

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

At least 17 people have died in ICE custody so far this year, part of President Trump's dramatic increase of immigration detention. "I have never seen anything like this, where I'm seeing ICE reporting out at least one death per week," says Setareh Ghandehari of @DetentionWatch.

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

✍️ Corinealdi shows these aren't coincidences. Racism, capitalism, militarization, and anti-immigration policy feed on silence about what came before.

To document denationalization is to lift the veil. Read her full article here 👇

https://t.co/hYpT9AzRBl

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇

https://t.co/hYpT9AzRBl

[Migration Scholar Collaborative @MigrationCollab]

But the past isn't past.

Panama is now paid millions by the US to deport migrants crossing the Darién Gap, the Dominican Republic rendered thousands of Haitian descendants stateless in 2013, and the US recently issued an executive order targeting birthright citizenship.