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"Contested sites of solidarity: Refugee simulations as simulacra" by Umut Ozguc is now available #OpenAccess on our website!

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April 20-26, 2026 April 20 Cologne, 6:30 p.m., Filmhaus Köln, Maybachstraße (Film: No Country for Anyone) Heidelberg, 7:00 p.m., Haus der Christuskirche, Zähringerstraße 26 (Workshop on creating with Canva) Gießen, 7:00 p.m., Pit's Pinte, Grünberger Straße 31 (Plenary Session) Paderborn, 8:00 p.m., Rathausplatz (Vigil: One Year Without Lorenz) April 23 Krefeld, 6:15-6:45 p.m., corner of Rheinstraße/Hochstraße (Vigil: Stop the Dying in the Mediterranean) Munich, 7:00 p.m., Köşk, Schillerstraße 38 (Europe's Borders in the Sahara – Migration, Deportations, and Solidarity) April 24 Kiel, 12:05 PM, Parade Ground (Climate Strike) April 26 Kassel, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Steinweg / Friedrichsplatz (Earth Day)

This week’s overview of events is available.

You can take to the streets with our local groups, inform yourself, organise yourself and show creative protest! We stand up for a migration policy based on solidarity and demand freedom of movement for all people!

Medi-Cal Immigrant Enrollment Is Dropping. Researchers Point to Trump’s Policies. - KFF Health News A KFF Health News analysis found Medi-Cal lost almost 100,000 immigrants without legal status in the second half of 2025. California officials say it’s not clear if immigrants are losing coverage…

Medi-Cal Immigrant Enrollment Is Dropping. Researchers Point to Trump’s Policies

“Many people don’t want to apply,” she said. “There are people who say they don’t even want to go outside and water their plants.”

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.

Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

New ICE Arrest Statistics Shed Light on Who the Agency is Targeting in American Communities - American Immigration Council Statistics reveal the full extent of ICE’s operations under Trump, including who the agency is arresting and how many have criminal records.

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org's blog. I dig into the Deportation Data Project's information and shed some light on Trump's mass deportation project, more than one year into his latest term in office. You'll want to check this one out! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-arr...

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026 Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old man from Cuba, died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026

A 27-year-old man from Cuba died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/aled-damie...

I believe that’s from John 4:18

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

This BBC immigration and asylum story is a moral panic. Poorly evidenced, generalised panic about a marginalised social group. Next week, the government will respond with a new 'crackdown'. This will then further exacerbate public anxiety.

You know who wins from all of this, Nigel Farage.

Anyone else’s Bluesky broken this morning? Slightly worried that there’s some issue with my account.

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

🚨New article🚨

What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy?

This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’'

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The View From Inside Trump’s DHS Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.

Bingo.

“Danny Chin, former associate counsel at U.S.C.I.S.: These are countries with no real asylum process and rampant human rights violations…The administration uses these removals [to third countries] to instill fear. They want people to self-deport.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Report: DHS deported a U.S. citizen arrested near San Antonio The man, picked up in the Texas Hill Country town of Fredericksburg, said officers refused to see his documents and threatened him with fraud charges.

"Morales alleges three separate CBP agents said they didn’t believe him when he told them he had a birth certificate, Social Security card and other ways of proving his citizenship. The officers threatened him with a fraud charge & 5 years’ imprisonment if he didn’t sign a voluntary departure order"

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

2025 was one of most volatile years ever for U.S. naturalizations The year began with many people becoming U.S. citizens, but by December, fewer people were doing so, driven by ramped-up scrutiny of applications and eroding trust in the system.

NEW: USCIS published its data for all of 2025, and even into Jan. 2026. The result:

2025 began w high numbers of citizenship apps submitted & decided (approved/denied). By winter fewer were applying to become citizens — and fewer were given a decision.

Latest: www.npr.org/2026/04/13/g...

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's opposition leader Peter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded his election loss in a phone call.

Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement President Donald Trump says the U.S. Navy will immediately start a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz.

We are going to blockade the blockade in order to unblockade the blockade that was unblockaded before the bombing started.

apnews.com/article/iran...

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

The most useful thread to read before tomorrow!

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project.

Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after.

Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The European Parliament, led by a conservative far-right alliance, endorses a drastic expansion of deportations. In effect, the far-right has used migration to break into the European political centre.

EU member states have been searching for potential countries be willing to host ‘return hubs’ for rejected asylum seekers.

Discussions have reportedly "zoomed in on 12 nations," including Rwanda, Senegal, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Uganda and Uzbekistan.

Trump Admin Dealt Another Blow In Court After Professor Found Not Guilty California philosophy professor Jonathan Caravello, who was arrested while protesting an immigration raid, faced up to 20 years in prison.

“Jonathan Caravello, 38, faced up to 20 years in prison if he was convicted of the charge. The verdict is the latest blow to the Trump administration, which has thrown baseless assault charges at people who protest its mass deportation operations — but has repeatedly failed to secure convictions.”

Trump has lost the most ground with white women who self-identify as moderate or conservative ideologically.
(Lakshya Jain, The Argument)
www.theargumentmag.com/p/women-are-...