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US arrests more immigrants in February 2025 than any month in last seven years Guardian data analysis shows administration transformed immigration enforcement in only a few weeks

New from @maanvisingh.bsky.social and I: What does the first few months of immigration enforcement look like under Trump - more arrests, more local police cooperation, more fear.

"“What we’re seeing is a real scattershot of different tactics"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.

In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.

Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.

Links below.

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security.

That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

Funding:

UC Hellman Fellowship

Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship @irpwisc.bsky.social

Russell Sage Pipeline Grant @russellsagefdn.bsky.social

It's About Time A new open access paper just came out this week, co-authored with UC Santa Cruz sociology Ph.D. student Elena Losada: • Pedroza, Juan M. and Elena Losada. 2025. "It’s about time: Parent’s direct care ...

A short summary of what we found: New paper on how state policies can support immigrant parents and children:

www.socialdemography.xyz/post/it-s-ab...

It’s About Time: Parent’s Direct Care for Children in Hispanic Noncitizen Households Across State Immigration Policy Contexts - Population Research and Policy Review Is parent’s direct care for children more common in state contexts with inclusive policies toward immigrants? If so, among whom do we find such a relationship? We analyze American Time Use Survey (ATU...

New paper on how state policies can support immigrant parents and children:

"It's about time: Parent’s Direct Care for Children in Hispanic Noncitizen Households Across State Immigration Policy Contexts" Population Research & Policy Review

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Below is a thread of federal government data being taken down this week. 🧵

It’s a growing list. Feel free to add others I’ve missed.

#federaldata #governmentdata #datapurge

In 1993, the Supreme Court said that immigration court proceedings are “domestic procedures ” which are not relevant outside the United States, specifically as relates to people detained at Guantánamo Bay. So I just can’t see how it would be legal to use Gitmo for “domestic” ICE detention purposes.

Something I'd note is that, while there are pretty much no details or useful information of any kind in this Guantanamo "memo," a _conspicuously_ absent detail is the number of migrants they expect it to hold.

Which means the only source we have for the 30K number is...Trump.

Excited to share my new article in @sfjournal.bsky.social ! Using a survey experiment with 995 families, I show how race shapes beliefs about school safety. White, Asian, and Latine families perceive Black schools as less safe—even when safety ratings are identical. #Education #Race

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Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

The birthright citizenship executive order requires the federal government to issue, or recognize, documents affirming the US citizenship of babies born in the US after mid-Feb 2025, only if at least one parent is a US citizen or green card holder. (Notably, a temporary visa isn’t enough.)

Funding for this project from @IRP_UW and Hellman Fellowship. Options are our own.

Where to find legal aid assistance:

A list of organizations accredited by the DOJ is here: www.justice.gov/eoir/recogni...

A directory of immigrant-serving legal aid (searchable by zip code; updated by Justicia Lab and Probono.net) is here: www.immigrationlawhelp.org

The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations A new article published by the International Migration Review is out now: • Pedroza, Juan M., Stephanie Potochnick, and Robert Santillano. “The 2016 United States election and financial support to migrant-serving legal-aid organizations.” International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241309573The article is a collaboration with colleagues who are social scientists and policy scholars.UCSC has published a press release for the study:"As Donald Trump prepares to take office for a

New paper on donations to immigrant-serving legal aid. We track donations to immigrant-serving legal aid nonprofits with DOJ accreditation over time. We find a dramatic rise in financial contributions to these organizations during Trump's first election.

www.socialdemography.xyz/post/the-201...

We're constantly fed a narrative of unlimited numbers of *potential* immigrants.

The truth is, by a long way, most people stay put.
And if they do move, they move within the borders of their country.
And if they do leave, they go next door.
And if policy allows it, they tend to go back again, too.

What Will Mass Deportations Look Like? We explore who may be most likely to be targeted and the potential roadblocks to the Trump administration’s mass deportations next year.

“Immigration Impact” regularly helps keep me up to date on what’s going on, where we’ve been, and where we may be headed:

Dear LC comunidad y familia,
We hope you and all your loved ones are safe and healthy.
I also hope you are having a smooth end to the semester/quarter as well having a wonderful start to the holiday season!
Melanie Palacios Soderstrom is the Winter 2024 Latina/o/x Criminology Scholar Spotlight!

Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - Demography University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the research group of Prof. Ayesha Mahmud.
For more info, visit: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716

🚨 New Research Funding Opportunity! 🚨 IRP Extramural Large Grants for Refugee Resettlement Research 2025–2027, Call for Applications: LOI Due: 1/31/25. Funding per projct up to $50,000. Full call available at: (1/9)

To find legal aid organizations working with immigrants, search here by zip code:

www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/le...

See my latest post for immigration scams research:

✅ Press releases for 2 studies
✅ First study w/ insights on where noncitizens speak up to report scams
✅ Follow up study on how people describe scams in their own words
✅ Links to news coverage

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Dynamite program with an incredible group of scholars each year. Please share and encourage students to apply. 2023 cohort will be coming to #PAA2024 @popassocamerica.bsky.social