Reposted by Felipe NavarroCGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Today Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele visited the White House. There Bukele and Trump doubled down on their illegal scheme that has resulted in the disappearances of over 280 people to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison. Our full statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/bukele-... 131
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 12/02/2025🌎 New! A first-of-its-kind global Toolkit on international protection and displacement in the context of climate change & disasters. It provides clear, practical guidance on how refugee & human rights law applies—debunking myths and clarifying protections under existing frameworks. 🔽 More below 152
Reposted by Felipe NavarroJane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims? My latest article explains ... theconversation.com/climate-impa...theconversation.comClimate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims?We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect people. 085
Reposted by Felipe NavarroJillMarieB @jmbussey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025🚨TAKE ACTION🚨 For decades, the U.S. has welcomed refugees fleeing violence, conflict, or persecution in their home countries. Contact your members of Congress today to urge the admin to lift the suspension on refugee resettlement and the R&P stop-work order! ⤵️ 🔗🚨: bit.ly/4ayOZyr #RefugeesWelcomebit.lyACT NOW: Refugee program suspension must endUrge members of Congress to speak out on the suspension of refugee resettlement 011
Reposted by Felipe Navarrojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunistnytimes.comTrump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left WingMany Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality. 480196903307
Reposted by Felipe NavarroKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 06/02/2025NEW: Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, has such a colorful history that experts doubt he’d pass a background test typically required for access to sensitive US government systems: www.wired.com/story/edward...wired.comDOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted HackersExperts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems. 811629620
Reposted by Felipe NavarroCGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Proud to partner with @aclu.org @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @lasamericasiac.bsky.social @florenceproject.bsky.social @txcivilrights.bsky.social @raicestexas.bsky.social! 🦋 074
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 04/02/2025As the U.S. gov works to dismantle protections, Latin America moves forward. The Chile Declaration & Plan of Action lay out a blueprint for addressing displacement challenges in the region, including those driven by climate change & disasters. Read more here: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/pub...cgrs.uclawsf.eduThe Chile Declaration and Plan of Action 2024–2034: A Blueprint for Addressing Climate and Disaster-Related Displacement in the Americas | Center for Gender and Refugee Studies 001
Reposted by Felipe NavarroRev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush @raushenbush.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Noting that Elon Musk attacked the Lutheran Church's work providing services, and that JD Vance attacked Catholic Bishops for their work with immigrants. Fair to say that this administration is one of the most hostile to religion and religious freedom that we have seen in recent memory. 17902338
Reposted by Felipe NavarroJeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025“I don't feel that it was right that they brought us a plane like that.” A fourth military deportation flight flew out from El Paso on Thursday. On board were 80 Guatemalans. These flights are part of a campaign to dehumanize migrants. My story for The El Paso Times, a friend in Guate helpedelpasotimes.com'We didn't steal': Trump's military deportations continue, raising concern of degrading treatmentPresident Trump's deportations on military planes continue as countries in Latin America raise concern for the dignity and rights of their people 414561
Reposted by Felipe NavarroJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/01/2025Wow. At WH press briefing just now, press sec Karoline Leavitt was asked how many immigrants arrested by ICE under the Trump admin have criminal records. Leavitt: "All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws, and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes." 3619165
Reposted by Felipe NavarroAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025How the HECK is it not a nationwide scandal that Trump told federal law enforcement to divert resources away from drug trafficking and terrorism cases to instead prioritize prosecuting undocumented immigrants for living here? They screamed about fentanyl and then did this! 9839021266
Reposted by Felipe NavarroYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 26/01/2025All regional relations is now migration dominated. El Salvador is not a safe country and Colombia is providing refuge to millions of Venezuelans. But here we are. t.co/XOXHnAn3OP t.co/JsFSK9BGRrt.cohttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-eyes-asylum-agreement-el-salvador-deportation-migrants/ 0133
Reposted by Felipe NavarroAdam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 26/01/2025Unfortunately for Colombia, in our unipolar world, there's no choice but to obey the lone superpower. There are no rival powers or blocs like China, Russia, or BRICS just waiting to welcome Colombia with open arms. Oh wait, yes, there absolutely are. That seems like a likely consequence of today. 1356
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 25/01/2025🚨New Resource in Spanish: Trump’s return brings executive actions targeting asylum seekers & migrants—with impacts across Latin America & the Caribbean. This memo unpacks severe asylum restrictions, border militarization, & more. ✍️ By @cgrsasylum.bsky.social cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/pub...cgrs.uclawsf.eduEl retorno de Trump: Medidas ejecutivas que amenazan los derechos y la protección de las personas refugiadas y migrantes | Center for Gender and Refugee Studies 155
Reposted by Felipe NavarroCGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This week the Trump administration announced a set of extreme anti-immigrant policies that will gut access to asylum and exacerbate suffering and chaos at the border. We're ready to use every tool at our disposal to halt these destructive measures. Our statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/cgrs-de... 011
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 23/01/2025It's astounding to see so many ineffective policies—policies that either do nothing or actively harm countless people, all while helping no one. 040
Reposted by Felipe NavarroMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Jesus was a refugee in Egypt + “I was a stranger and you invited me in” Just off the top of my head 0115
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 21/01/2025Sheinbaum's remarks raise A LOT of questions. The strategy of a humanitarian response followed by repatriations sure sounds like chain refoulement. 001
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 21/01/2025Day 1 of Trump's destructive force targets: - Trans and gender nonconforming folks - Refugees and asylum seekers - Border communities - Immigrants - Our planet 010
Reposted by Felipe NavarroStacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025USA out of the Paris #Climate Accord (again). A victory for #corruption, #stupidity & #injustice. All backed by the same tech billionaires we keep hearing are green champions. 002
Reposted by Felipe NavarroYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I feel like EO on curtailing birthright citizenship was deliberately written to include children of temporarily legally present parents so as to get SCOTUS to compromise on children of unauthorized parents. Absolutely disgusting. 1165
Reposted by Felipe NavarroGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Ruben Gallego has claimed that the Ken Paxton Empowerment Act, aka the Laken Riley Act, "would exempt Dreamers brought here illegally as children, which is not true." 811745
Reposted by Felipe NavarroAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Update today: at 3:00, there will be a cloture vote (60 vote threshold) to move to debate on the Laken Riley Act, which will succeed. There may then be efforts to amend the bill, after which there will be a vote to close debate (60 vote threshold). It's here where Dems can still stop the bill. 513681
Reposted by Felipe NavarroAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/01/2025John Fetterman just became a full sponsor of the Laken Riley Act, which would mandate detention for any noncitizen even *arrested* for a theft offense (even if not convicted) and give state AGs sweeping and privileged private enforcement powers in federal court. www.foxnews.com/politics/rep...foxnews.comRepublicans look to finally push through Laken Riley bill with new GOP trifectaRepublicans are stepping on the gas and renewing bills Democrats ignored in the last Congress, the first of which being the Laken Riley Act. 33310156
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 03/01/2025www.commondreams.org/opinion/dems...commondreams.orgThe Dems Won’t Win by Abandoning Immigrant Rights | Common DreamsWith their scolding and posturing, self-described “pragmatists” are mimicking the far-right’s well-worn playbook of scapegoating marginalized people to evade responsibility for charting a visionary pa... 010
Reposted by Felipe NavarroKathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Panama has deported ~2,000 migrants, mostly Colombians & Ecuadoreans Jungle crossings dropped 40% in 2024 to ~300,000, in part bc of biometric systems to spot people w/ criminal records who can be quickly deported. In the past 6 months, govt. has sent ~40 deportation flightswsj.comInside the Plan to Halt U.S.-Bound Migrants at the Treacherous Darién GapThe U.S. “border is actually here,” Panama’s president says, describing the jungle route many migrants take on their way to America. 112
Reposted by Felipe NavarroMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are: a) Telling the truth, b) In real danger of persecution, and yet c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities? That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317... 481215628
Reposted by Felipe NavarroAdam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 05/12/2024"Mexico is seeking an agreement with US President-elect Donald Trump to ensure it does not receive deportees from 3rd countries," Reuters reports. (www.reuters.com/world/americ...) From tomorrow's Border Update, here are times when the López Obrador government agreed to receive 3rd-country returns. 02213
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 05/12/2024New from me www.leirbrief.org/trump-2-0-fo...leirbrief.orgTrump 2.0: Four Key Shifts Expected in U.S. Asylum and Regional Migration PolicyThis article outlines four key areas of concern on asylum and migration policies after Donald Trump's re-election as President of the United States. 041
Reposted by Felipe NavarroAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The Bahamas has already officially rejected the Trump transition proposal. I do think there are very real concerns of a Rwanda-like plan to increase deportations, especially towards newly-arrived migrants. www.france24.com/en/live-news...france24.comBahamas rejects Trump proposal to take deported migrantsThe Bahamas on Thursday said it had rejected a proposal from the incoming Trump administration to take in deported migrants, as the next US president seeks to follow up on pledges to tackle immigratio... 512233
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 05/12/2024Oh boy www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...nbcnews.comTrump administration plans to deport some migrants to countries other than their ownThe transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, according to three sources familiar with the plans. 121
Reposted by Felipe NavarroKaren Musalo @karenmusalo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Read this excellent piece co-authored by @profjmcadam.bsky.social on protection for persons impacted by climate change and disasters, and keep an eye out for the collaborative international guidance on the issue coming out soon. www.ejiltalk.org/how-domestic...ejiltalk.orgHow Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and DisastersIt was not all that long ago that the idea of linking refugee protection to the impacts of climate change seemed not only embryonic, but futuristic. Yet, over the course of the past decade, an impo… 121
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 27/11/2024Vital reading on how international protection principles can address the risks created when climate change and disasters intersect with other drivers of movement. Clear guidance is essential for ensuring protection frameworks respond to these nuanced realities. www.ejiltalk.org/how-domestic...ejiltalk.orgHow Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and DisastersIt was not all that long ago that the idea of linking refugee protection to the impacts of climate change seemed not only embryonic, but futuristic. Yet, over the course of the past decade, an impo… 010
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 21/11/2024Worth reading this today and as we prepare for the months and years ahead. 021
Reposted by Felipe NavarroTom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 18/11/2024✈️ A US funded Panama deportation flight is on the way to New Delhi, India to deport 85 people and then on to Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam to deport 48 people. This is the 28th Panama deportation since 7 August, deporting 1,204 people (only 1.5% of Darién entries in that period), with 2175
Reposted by Felipe NavarroMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I also think Democrats should surrender completely to right-wing propaganda. 1232325219
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 14/11/2024Remembering those horrid Friday afternoon announcements as if it were yesterday. 030
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 13/11/2024As we brace for next year, govs in the Americas are negotiating the Chile Declaration and Plan of Action to address displacement challenges over the next decade. Join our webinar to learn more from experts representing orgs working in Latin America. www.refugeesinternational.org/events-and-t...refugeesinternational.orgCartagena +40: Where Next for Refugee Protection in Latin America? - Refugees InternationalJoin us for a panel on evolving protections for refugees in Latin America 40 years on from the historic Cartagena Declaration. 010
Reposted by Felipe NavarroLincoln College, University of Oxford @lincoln.ox.ac.uk · 12/11/2024Lincoln alumna Prof Jane McAdam discusses the reality of migration caused by climate change in this week’s episode of #TheFutureUnleashed. It's especially timely with COP29 taking place. Watch the full episode now: lincoln.ox.ac.uk/discover/pod...lincoln.ox.ac.ukPodcast Series: The Future Unleashed | Lincoln College OxfordWatch our audio and video podcast series, The Future Unleashed, which asks, What does the future hold? 032
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 13/11/2024Noem, the governor of SOUTH DAKOTA, "has been very strong on the Border" 000
Felipe Navarro @fnlux.com · 12/11/2024🚨NEW Here's CGRS's factsheet (in Spanish) on what a Trump 2.0 term will mean for asylum and border policies. Aquí una nueva hoja informativa de CGRS sobre lo que un segundo mandato de Trump significará para las políticas de asilo y fronterizas. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/pub...cgrs.uclawsf.eduQué esperar de Trump 2.0: la expansión de restricciones al asilo y la externalización de la frontera | Center for Gender and Refugee Studies 1177
Reposted by Felipe NavarroNicolette Glazer @nicoletteglazer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024As anxiety rises by the minute among immigrant communities, I will try posting legal news, developments, and info on #immigration here. We need to build a strong immigration support community here so that people can have up-to-date info and reliable sources of information. 814521
Reposted by Felipe NavarroLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/11/2024media.tenor.coma cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fineAlt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine 919722