✈️👀 Must read ICE Flight Monitor March Report. 1,794 ICE Air flights including 225 deportation (up 67% from March 2025) to 46 countries!! humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/upl…

Likely the first deportation flight to Ethiopia since at least 2020. In the midst of escalating tensions of an internal war between Tigray and the Federal Ethiopian government. The last one resolved in just 2022 after 600,000 deaths.

These agreements represent a sharp turn in US foreign policy. And it remains to be seen whether the agreements will pass muster with the courts and whether they endure as a feature of U.S. immigration enforcement and U.S. diplomacy going forward.

These agreements have been negotiated in secret and under pressure, drawing significant controversy and legal challenges abroad. Most of the 27 agreements are not Safe Third Country agreements because they do not provide deportees with option seek protection. What happens to deportees is unclear.

U.S. Third-Country Deportation Agreements Are More About Fear than Numbers The Trump administration has signed deportation agreements with 27 countries, with outreach planned to dozens of others, to help facilitate its mass deportations agenda. Yet these third-country deport...

Uganda--1 of 27 countries that have agreed to receive third-country deportations from the US--confirmed today that it received 8 African deportees. In a @migrationpolicy.bsky.social short read this week, I argue that these agreements focus on fear, not large-scale deportations: bit.ly/4dtmRAr

Uganda confirms it has received 8 third-country nationals from the U.S. as part of a bilateral Safe Third Country Agreement.

Not all third-country deportation agreements are the same.
Our new analysis identifies 4 types in use by Trump administration:
🔸 safe third country accords
🔸 deportation bridge agreements
🔸 incarceration deals
🔸 hybrid arrangements
🧷 bit.ly/third-country-deportation

USCIS is truly NOT keeping up with new immigration applications being filed. As of September 2025, even before USCIS committed itself to revisiting likely millions of past decisions, their pile of unopened applications - the frontlog - was 248,000(!) That's up from ZERO in December 2024.

Colorado stands out as the only state offering native language assessments to #EnglishLearners in public school across all four core subjects—math, science, social studies and reading/language arts.

More state-level findings in our new fact sheet: https://bit.ly/4bmyzdx

Get up to speed on how #climatechange is transforming human migration

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Non-citizens are not allowed to vote in federal or state elections in the U.S.

This has been the law across the country since 1924

Get all the facts with our explainer: https://bit.ly/4lD2HGe

Third Country Deportation Watch Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.

We’ve updated our third country deportation agreement website with new agreements, stories of deportations, data about pretermissions, resources for lawyers and more!

www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

Kristi Noem ousted from Homeland Security post amid recent turmoil Kristi Noem fired from Trump's DHS after controversial hearings. Sen. Markwayne Mullin reportedly considered as replacement for homeland security chief.

Kristi Noem ousted from Homeland Security post amid recent turmoil.

Trump reportedly furious with Noem's performance in congressional hearings this week over controversial ad contract

Trump will nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to replace her

www.foxnews.com/politics/kri...

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Escalation of ICE Operations Emboldens State and Local Lawmakers to Constrain Its Operations The ramp-up of federal immigration enforcement during the second Trump term has prompted sharp responses from state and local governments, with some limiting cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or barring agents' wearing ...

Actions by state & local governments in the wake of high-profile operations in Minneapolis typify a recent wave of opposition to aspects of federal immigration enforcement

Muzaffar Chishti & @kathleenbush.bsky.social explain how ⤵️

https://bit.ly/4aUjcZo

A Profile of the Growing Black Immigrant Population in the United States The Black immigrant population in the United States has both grown considerably since 1990 and become more diverse, with the one-time heavily Caribbean and Latin American origins now more evenly mixed...

Destinations differ for the Black immigrant population in the US
Caribbean immigrants are concentrated in New York & Florida, while African immigrants are present across a broader set of states, including Texas, Minnesota, Ohio, Washington & Colorado

www.migrationpolicy.org/research/bla...
#BHM

New @nber.org paper with @caitlinpatler.bsky.social &
@elizabethacox.bsky.social out!

We examine how ICE arrests differ in Trump 2.0 vs. 1.0

Key Findings 🧵

1) MANY more arrests in Trump 2.0 than 1.0

2) When arrests spike, % arrested w criminal conviction falls

www.nber.org/papers/w3479...

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ENQUETE. "Même les Américains ont peur" : comment la police de l'immigration a intensifié sa traque des sans-papiers depuis le retour de Donald Trump Aux Etats-Unis, les arrestations, placements en détention et expulsions d'étrangers en situation irrégulière ont été érigés en priorité par la Maison Blanche. Les agents fédéraux de l'ICE sont les fer...

Comment la police de l'immigration américaine a intensifié sa traque des sans-papiers depuis le retour au pouvoir de Donald Trump

I talked to @valpasquesoone.bsky.social @franceinfo.fr about Trump's ramp up of US immigration enforcement in the interior of the country

Beyond “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Actions in the First Year under Trump 2.0 MPI analysts assess the immigration actions taken during President Trump's first year back in office, detail the legal state of play, and analyze the actual effects on the labor market, U.S. communities, and future immigration to the United States.

Entering into the 2nd year of Trump's second term, the U.S. immigration system looks very different. What has actually changed—and what does it mean for communities, the labor market, and future immigration?

🖥️ Watch our recent webinar: https://bit.ly/Trump2firstyr

Más de 40 mil ciudadanos estadunidenses hijos de migrantes estudian en BC - NÓMADAS En la región se registra un fenómeno educativo binacional que ha ido en aumento en los últimos años: alrededor de 40 mil ciudadanos estadunidenses, en su mayoría hijos de migrantes mexicanos, cursan e...

In Mexico’s state of Baja California, which includes Tijuana and Mexicali, “around 40,000 U.S. citizens, mostly children of Mexican migrants, are studying within the public education system.”

With news of ICE's focus on Maine, recommending my colleagues @colleenputzelkav.bsky.social & Valerie Lacarte's profile of ME's small immigrant population. ME's immigrants are a mix of long-settled, well-integrated folks, and newcomers from diverse origins, bolstering the workforce of an aging state

Remittances by Another Measure: The Economic Value of Migrants’ Time Supporting Their Homelands The time that immigrants and other diaspora members spend volunteering to support their homeland is rarely considered to be a measurable remittance. That oversight ignores the large value of these contributions, which can come from medical profession...

When it comes to remittances, researchers tend to think of 3 main types:

💵Financial
📱In-kind
🗣️Social

Here’s why the reality is more complex: https://bit.ly/3NmAvdM

Unleashing Power in New Ways: Immigration in the First Year of Trump 2.0 U.S. immigration policy, practice, and enforcement changed dramatically over the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, touching most corners of the immigration system. The government has...

Reshaping who is welcome and who belongs is the undertone of the first year of changes to the U.S. immigration system in the first year of the Trump administration

Read our full report by @kathleenbush.bsky.social, Muz Chishti, and me here:

www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

There's a lot in the DHS FY 2026 funding bill but 1 thing that caught my eye is that the dept. can't use funds for state or local law enforcement agencies delegated immigration enforcement authority if the Inspector General determines they violated their agreement terms with DHS

One year ago today, Donald Trump returned to the White House
During this consequential year, what have been the key actions & impacts on immigration?
We did a deep dive
➡️Webchat: https://bit.ly/3YKQh4y
➡️High-level analysis: https://bit.ly/3LVxwZd

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JUST PUBLISHED: Our experts give an overview of the Trump administration’s most significant immigration changes over the last year

The analysis covers changes in enforcement, legal immigration, humanitarian protection, integration supports & much more

https://bit.ly/MPI_Trump2at1

Ecuador ha introducido nuevos controles migratorios como parte de su respuesta al aumento de la violencia

Un nuevo foco analítico del MPI, escrito por Diego Chaves-González, examina estas reformas y lo que revela la evidencia sobre los factores que impulsan la inseguridad

USCIS Increases Screening, Vetting of Aliens Working in U.S. | USCIS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its Policy Manual to reduce the maximum validity period for Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) for certain categories of aliens.

USCIS said yesterday they're shortening the validity period for work permits for asylum & green card applicants + others from 5 yrs to 18 months. Combined with USCIS' slowing processing, & the end of auto-extensions while people renew, this will cause MANY people to churn in & out of the workforce.