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Chris Levesque

@cmlevesque.bsky.social
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asst prof of sociology / law & society at Kenyon College. research focus: demography, law, and immigration detention

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t care if the man had a gun. By all accounts he was disarmed & on the ground when he was shot 5 times. You don’t get to shoot people unarmed on the ground point blank 5 times. I know this sounds crazy under fascism but standards for law enforcement should be higher not lower than civilians!
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Caroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
For @thenation.com, I wrote about Alice Driver’s book, The Death and Life of the American Worker, about Mexican and Central immigrant organizing in the poultry processing plants of Arkansas—an important contribution to US labor journalism: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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A Generation of Injustice at Tyson Foods
Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
In a new article with Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock, and Weston Ley, we find growing double penalties in crime-based removal proceedings, racial disparities in detention and removal outcomes, and more favorable outcomes for non-white immigrants with same-race judges: minnesotalawreview.org/article/raci...
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
ICE camping outside immigration courts to arrest people is one way to get around court proceedings & expedite removals. And it's a double-edged sword -- if this scares people away from court they'll be up for automatic removal anyway, @mattcameron.bsky.social said theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...
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ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/04/2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in a “timely manner” citizens who were being deported by the Trump administration. Follow updates. nyti.ms/42wKSAx
Marco Rubio is wearing a dark suit with an American flag pin. A headline reads: "Rubio Cancels Visas for South Sudanese in Dispute Over Deportations." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 30/03/2025
My discussion with Gustavo Solis for KPBS/NPR: "When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives." Read/listen/watch here: www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
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When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives
An immigration expert analyzes the statistical impact of Trump's immigration policies, ICE funding increases and immigration data manipulation shaping public narratives.
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Higher education should absolutely *not* act this way in light of the graduate student arrests we’ve seen at Tufts, Alabama, Minnesota, Columbia, and a growing number of schools. And yet here we are. Faculty and admin must work together to value and protect our students.
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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
White House declaring that any Venezuelan man/teenager 14 years or older, who (the government says) is a member of Tren de Aragua, and who isn’t a citizen or green card holder, are “subject to immediate apprehension, detention and removal.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
When you have the chance, please read this informative essay by @austinkocher.com on the Mahmoud Khalil deportation case. ⬇️ And, many thanks to Austin for including "Threat of Dissent" in his essay's thoughtful synthesis & excellent analysis of the case. austinkocher.substack.com/p/your-intro...
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Your Introduction to Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation Case and the Legal Battle Ahead
This post focuses on the fundamentals of Mahmoud Khalil’s case, including the core legal and ethical questions, why attorneys are already calling it "sloppy", and why this is really about Marco Rubio.
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Dan Kowalski @skiramen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention
Khalil will likely stay at notorious ICE facility in Louisiana until at least March 17.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is being held in an ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, according to ICE’s Detainee Locator webpage. Thank you to @petrulis.bsky.social for flagging this. locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search
Screenshot from ICE web site, searching "Detainee locator" tool for Mahmoud Khalil. Results state that Khalil is being held in ICE Custody in the State of Louisiana, at the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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.
Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc., 509 U.S. 155 (1993). In sum, all available evidence about the meaning of § 243(h)-the Government official at whom it is directed, its location in the Act, its failure to suggest any extraterritorial application, the 1980 amendment that gave it a dual reference to "deport or return," and the relevance of that dual structure to immigration law in general-leads unerringly to the conclusion that it applies in only one context: the domestic procedures by which the Attorney General determines whether deportable and excludable aliens may remain in the United States.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It's a real honor that @prismreports.bsky.social was able to publish this piece today by the brilliant Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, who argues that "election postmortems that do not address xenophobia do not get to the heart of the 2024 election." Please read and share widely.
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Xenophobia isn’t rational, but it is very reassuring
For people untouched by the Trump administration’s policies, the shift to authoritarianism will mostly feel aesthetic
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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández @ccgarciahernandez.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trump's early moves on immigration policy signal that DHS is likely to detain and forcibly remove more migrants without a criminal history just like during Trump’s first term. Read more at Immigration Law Unhinged open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/c...
Immigration Law Unhinged, January 22, 2025, addresses Trump's early immigration moves which are not focused on criminal history.
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our story on the stunning firings at the U.S. immigration court: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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Trump Administration Fires Immigration Judges as Crackdown Begins
Four immigration court officials were removed from their positions on Monday. It’s unclear who is in charge at this point.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is absolutely wild, and a horrible loss at just about the worst time.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
In sad news, TRAC, the immigration court data portal which has been a vital resource for years, appears to be completely down following its departure from Syracuse University. It's unclear when (or if) it will come back.
404 message showing TRAC is down.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Please forgive a little earnest-posting. I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.
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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Her Nephew Died Crossing the Border. She Plays Basketball to Save Others Like Him. - Documented
This NYC basketball team, dubbed the “female chaplains of the desert” funnels donations to volunteers who search for lost migrants at the border.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
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Stop using generative AI as a search engine
Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
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Don’t talk to ICE @amytorres.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I’m at the Senate Judiciary hearing on Mass Deportations with @njaij.bsky.social. 🧵🪡Thread incoming:
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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Check out the latest DHS Climate Change & Health Research Hub post, which discusses the importance of supplementing spatial analyses with qualitative methods! tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
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Incorporating Qualitative Methods into Spatial Health Research
Spatiotemporal research is enhanced when guided by local knowledge, perspective, and expertise.
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Jane Devlin @bostonmigration.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on impact of mass deportations. Watch livestream Tuesday December 10 at 10am: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
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How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 09/12/2024
Me when starting to read this book review: "Why would any sane person want to read a whole book about principal component analysis" Me after finishing this excellent book review: "WTF inject it right into my veins" loreley.one/2024-09-pca/
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Book Review: Unraveling Principal Component Analysis
A collection of projects, essays and thoughts
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Lame duck session is in full swing for the Ohio General Assembly, and there are some immigration-related bills to keep an eye on. To start, HB 547 proposes to withhold state low-income housing tax credits to landlords who fail to verify tenants' immigration status: legiscan.com/OH/text/HB54...
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In a new open-access article in Population and Development Review, our team provides a much-needed empirical starting point for future research on the globalization of international migration. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #sociology #demography #migration
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yesterday was Bessie’s gotcha day. Here she is .02 seconds before a cheeseburger magically disappears.
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Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hey folks, help me out with this one? I'm putting together a starter pack for socio-legal scholars for @slsauk.bsky.social and others to use. Let me know if you or anyone else should be added! go.bsky.app/T5W1tVv
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/11/2024
Hey tech wizards and nerds 🧙‍♂️ this holiday season, we've got a resource you can share to help answer tech questions your family and friends might be asking you around the dinner table.
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Welcome to Digital Rights Bytes
Digital Rights Bytes
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator?” is a question I didn’t originally have on my bingo card, but it’s definitely going into the syllabus for my upcoming Law, Tech, & Society seminar.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We’re among the organizations urging an immediate halt to the Department of Homeland Security's use of non-compliant AI systems, which could be used to facilitate civil rights violations, mass detentions, and deportations under the incoming administration. abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...
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Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration
President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them...
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Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Guatemalan exchange visa holders came to the US to pursue an internship at a Nebraska pork producer. Instead, they were put to work without training cleaning barns, assisting with sow birthing, and tagging new-born piglets, they claim in a lawsuit alleging exploitation of the J-1 visa program.
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Pork Producer Exploited J-1 Exchange Visa Holders, Suit Claims
A Nebraska pork producer violated anti-trafficking and racketeering laws by duping exchange visitor visa participants into working dangerous, low-paid jobs in production plants, a lawsuit alleges.
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
For next semester’s undergraduate crimmigration law class, I just added to the syllabus this excellent op-ed from @daralind.bsky.social.
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Timeline cleanse: Bessie meeting enemy (?) goats in Kentucky.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Had the pleasure of reading early drafts of this. It’s a GREAT piece. Go read it.
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just found out I'm going to be presenting a new paper at @popassocamerica.bsky.social this April on racial/ethnic disparities in temporary release from immigration detention, along with my co-authors Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock, and Weston Ley. Here's the abstract:
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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Finally moving on from Twitter and hoping to reconnect with folks in greener pastures (and bluer skies I suppose). Hi! Thought I’d share a new paper for my first post, but for the algorithm here’s Bessie instead 🐶
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