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The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇
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Their findings are clear: none of the countries currently receiving US deportees under ACAs can guarantee safety or adequate protection.
Read the full bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab for a rigorous, country-by-country assessment.
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@elliottyoung.bsky.social of Lewis & Clark College and @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social of Emerson College examined conditions in each of these countries through fieldwork, interviews, & rigorous research to give immigration courts the country conditions information they need to make informed decisions.
The picture elsewhere is stark. @hrw.org found that deportees sent to ACA countries in Africa have been imprisoned, mistreated, and in some cases abandoned in neighboring countries with no money, no contacts, and no support.
The consequences are already playing out. DHS has been "pretermitting," or canceling, asylum cases en masse and ordering people sent to ACA countries. Immigration courts urgently need to understand what conditions in those countries actually look like.
The policy is intentional. Sec. of State Marco Rubio said at an April cabinet meeting: "We are actively searching for other countries to take people from third countries... the further away from America, the better, so they can't come back across the border."
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Those sent to these countries are often unaware of what awaits them. As MiSC scholar @elliottyoung.bsky.social put it: "Asylum seekers know the dangers in their home countries, but are not always aware of the limits of the asylum system or gang violence & state corruption in ACA countries."
ACAs are bilateral deals where the US sends asylum seekers to a "safe third country" to have their claims processed there instead. Deportees can be sent to countries like Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador— nations they may have no connection to whatsoever.
The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇
sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...
Important piece by UMN prof Rahsaan Mahadeo about the lasting impact of deportation and the criminalization of immigrants.
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The ICE warehouse in Western Maryland, up close. It’s hard to explain how enormous this place is until you’re standing right in front of it.
32 immigrants died in ICE custody in 25, and already in 2026, 9 have died. Immigrant detention becomes a death machine.
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Staff at the nation’s largest ICE detention site have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide.
Body camera footage newly obtained by CBS News shows the moments leading up to and after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot US citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in March 2025 and contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the killing.
Key difference is US interdiction these days is a near-guarantee and unlike in previous years there will be no kind of wet foot/dry foot; it’d be detention and deportation for all.
Noem may be leaving DHS, but the agency’s accountability crisis remains.
In this week’s newsletter, we break down Noem’s tenure of secrecy and brutality at DHS — and what needs to happen next
Read and subscribe:
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I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...
I'm in St. Louis this week for a series of public events on immigration enforcement with Ashrei Foundation Before tonight's panel, a thread on what ICE detention actually looks like in Missouri right now — because the geography tells you a lot.
Minnesota and other states can implement these security measures to help lawmakers and the public alike feel safe to engage in the democratic process:
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Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
Minneapolis is making global headlines — but much of what’s happening on the ground isn’t being fully understood. If you want deeper context from scholars closely following events, this conversation is for you.
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Join "Brutality and New Solidarities: Learning from Minneapolis" — a global panel with migration scholars examining what’s unfolding and what it means for migration, solidarity, and resistance worldwide. Moderated by MiSC scholar Llana Barber.
🗓 Wednesday, February 11, 2026
⏰ 10am Central
Minneapolis is making global headlines — but much of what’s happening on the ground isn’t being fully understood. If you want deeper context from scholars closely following events, this conversation is for you.
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Op-ed with my colleague and physician Jeff Singer: "The ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota is already producing a familiar yet increasingly harmful side effect: Patients are avoiding doctors’ offices, clinics and hospitals out of fear." www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
I've wanted to make this graph for years, and we finally did it. Here's where all the government's money came from and went to for the last 30 years. Immigrants aren't the cause of the problem. cato.org/white-paper/...
Join us for an online discussion of Intersections in Indigenous and Immigration Histories Monday, Feb 23 at 4pm Central. Co-sponsored by the Dept. of American Indian Studies. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/IHRCIntersections
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
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