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Sam Chambers @spatiosam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"We then, in collaboration with Sam Chambers, modelled how different border-control interventions and scenarios extend the time migrants spend in these environments, thereby intensifying their exposure to meteorological and topographical harm." www.borderforensics.org/investigatio...
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Monthly 1 km downscaled surfaces of minimum duration-limited exposure (DLE, hours, masked to the area of interest, for January 2021 through December 2025. Higher values indicate longer allowable exposure under the assumed clothing and activity conditions, whereas lower values indicate shorter allowable exposure and therefore greater cold stress. Seasonal structure and spatial heterogeneity are evident. Figure 3.36. Monthly 1 km downscaled surfaces of minimum duration-limited exposure (DLE, hours, masked to the area of interest, for January 2021 through December 2025. Higher values indicate longer allowable exposure under the assumed clothing and activity conditions, whereas lower values indicate shorter allowable exposure and therefore greater cold stress. Seasonal structure and spatial heterogeneity are evident. 
Monthly 1 km downscaled surfaces of minimum required clothing insulation (IREQ, clo), masked to the Poland area of interest, for January 2021 through December 2025. Higher values indicate greater clothing insulation required to remain within the modeled cold-strain criterion, whereas lower values indicate lower clothing demand. Seasonal structure and spatial heterogeneity are evident but not identical to DLE.
Modelled cumulative cold exposure and distress-call clusters along the Poland-Belarus border. This map overlays a scenario-based surface of cumulative cold exposure across the borderland with the spatial distribution of documented distress-call clusters. The blue surface represents the modelled intensity of cold exposure under the selected delay scenario, while yellow circles indicate distress-call locations/ clusters. These layers show that exposure is produced not only by environmental conditions, but by the interaction between terrain, bordering infrastructures, and the forced duration of migrants' immobility or rerouting. Figure 4.31. Cold-stress scenarios, documented deaths, and distance to the Belarus border. The maps compare death locations with cumulative cold-exposure contours under successive bordering scenarios. The contour values are used as an exposure index rather than as literal core-body temperature loss. Across scenarios, added delay compresses dangerous exposure thresholds toward the border. The distance-to-border analysis shows that mapped body-recovery locations remain situated within the wider borderland, with a particularly marked 2025 concentration near the legal border and along river-border sections. Table 4.2. The table shows the median distance from the Belarus border at which deaths occurred, along with the number of deaths recorded within 5 km and within 10 km of the border, illustrating how closely fatalities are clustered around the border zone.
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
How and why does the routine pillaging of wealth and stability from transnational working class households suppress the value of labor-power and facilitate the expanded reproduction of capitalism? My newest paper explores this question: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Frontiers in geographies of social reproduction - Geoff Boyce, 2026
A growing body of scholarship interrogates how border and migration policing destabilize transnational patterns of household social reproduction by threatening ...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11/02/2026
Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a Cornell University job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
A photo of Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Feb. 3, 2026, overlaid with the headline, "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers."
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Dems are preparing to demand that CBP "stay at the border" as one of their demands to avoid a government shutdown. Based on a multi-year FOIA campaign undertaken in collaboration with the ACLU of Michigan, here is what this means in practice: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 25/01/2026
As many as 1500 detainees at the Dilley ICE camp have erupted in protest. Lawyers were kicked out amid chants of: "Let us out! libertad!!" Detainees say ~80% are rebelling, motivated by the news from Minneapolis, the general strike, and the imprisonment of little Liam.
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
O.R.G.A.N.I.Z.E. And fight.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Feeling helpless? Get involved. From all I'm seeing and hearing from our neighbors in MLPS, these resistance networks didn't spring up overnight; they were built, brick by brick, for years. The best time to get involved was yesterday; the second best time is today. We all have a place in the work
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Melissa del Bosque @mdelbosque.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The ICE agent who shot Renee Good was a former Border Patrol agent. And today's murder was committed by a Border Patrol agent. This is violence and impunity that border communities have known all too well for years.
apnews.com
Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated
A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“The wind is rising and the rivers flowing, times are getting hard and we can’t go home again.” -Huey P. Newton, 1970
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We’re at this point because it was deemed acceptable for agents to roam “border areas” and have the authority to detain (and abuse and kill) non-U.S. citizens (and citizens) in “border areas.”
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
CBP and ICE spending 2006-2026 📈CBP and ICE 2019-2026 detained population 📈ICE and USBP 2005-2027 est. staff 📈
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Democrats want to impeach Kristi Noem. That is the most milquetoast chickenshit nonresponse. The apple is rotten to the core, and so is the tree it sprouted from. DHS needs to be dismantled, and ICE and Border Patrol abolished.
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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Join me at University College Dublin on Thursday, November 20th for a talk on "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." Note new day, time, location information.
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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A month from today, I will be giving at talk in Dublin, Ireland titled "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." A preview of a section from my forthcoming book "Reading Struggles." Can't wait and mroe details as it approaches. #CLRJames
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Roger Peet
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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Immigrant workers, agricultural, cafe and grocery, digital platform, arts and culture, and education workers in Ireland, Germany, England, and the US have been sharing their lives and struggles through workers’ inquiries. Join us in Dublin as we examine these recent inquires!
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“We’ve observed the self-defeating character of these policies over and over and over again in Southern Arizona over the last 30 years,” Boyce said.
nogalesinternational.com
Low migrant encounters may suggest ‘backlog’
Shielded by a cap under the 90-degree weather, Joel Smith crouched near a water barrel in a remote desert area near Arivaca Road on Monday.
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Plane is out of Ireland and on the way to Djibouti. Probably 6-7 hours from now (6:45 am eastern). *IF* it is a deportation also wondering if they would transfer people to a military plane flying in dark mode as last time to ultimate destination…
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
✈️👀Journey Air N588AT just landed at Djibouti at 1 PM Eastern and 8 PM local. Mission unknown and if a deportation it is unknown to where, and if it will be this plane, or if people will be transferred to a military plane operating in invisible dark mode like the one to South Sudan.
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Latest from @geoffboyce.bsky.social, Sam Chambers, Tara Plath, and Dan Martínez in Annals of the AAG: “Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement“ (open access)
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
nature.com
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change
While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Absolutely worth a listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Who We Talk About When We Talk About Borders
Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 05/05/2025 · 25m
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/05/2025
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
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“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 30/04/2025
Migrants sent to Libya will literally be sold into slavery and systematically tortured, starved and killed. This is so sickening and insane.
cnn.com
Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to the two countries, according to multiple sour...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"‘Felt externalisation’ is a way to go beyond the policies, the visible, and spectacular and instead capture the everyday, the slow, granular, and felt experience of border externalisation, be it fear, collective trauma, environmental degradation, or the smell of death." Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
Introducing 'Felt Externalisation': Exploring the Human and Environmental Impacts of EU Borders
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Immigration is often seen as a wedge issue, but what these last months have laid bare is how our fight for immigrant justice is a fight for all of us." Via @silkys13.bsky.social
truthout.org
Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds
Trump has a plan to triple ICE’s incarceration capacity, enabling it to detain an additional 84,000 people at any time.
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYr...
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Standing at the Gates of the Digital Hostile Environment: Britain's Anduril Maritime Sentry Towers
YouTube video by Samuel Storey
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Shadow regionalism and border policing in the political economy of North American integration by @geoffboyce.bsky.social d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/121712509/Sh...
On January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United
States, Canada, and Mexico came into effect - a significant moment in a continuing process of
regional integration that has since expanded to include the Central America and Dominican
Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), as well as a renegotiated US-Mexico-Canada
Free Trade Agreement. The year 1994 also marked the launch of the United States' first-ever
coordinated nationwide Southwest Border Enforcement Strategy, titled "Prevention Through
Deterrence" (PTD). The launch of PTD inaugurated the contemporary paradigm of border
policing in the United States and a sustained increase in border security funding, personnel,
technology, and infrastructure that, in the ensuing three decades, has expanded to encompass
the US-Canada border, the US-Mexico border; the US interior; and the externalization of US
border policing across Mexico and Central America. The goal of this chapter is to explore how
the transnational migration flows this project of border policing and security integration aim
to control can be understood to be enacting a kind of "shadow regionalism," a process unfold-
ing "in parallel with the North American Free Trade Agreement" but that was "created by
migrants themselves, through their own movements and exchanges across the border" (Lauby,
2011 n.p.). The chapter furthermore argues that rather than incidental - or even contradic-
tory, as some have argued (Andreas, 1998; Fernández-Kelly and Massey 2007; American
Immigration Council, 2008; Leuprecht and Hataley, 2023) - this process of shadow regional-
ism should be understood as integral to the overall political economy of regional integration in North America.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/03/2025
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
theonion.com
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders” wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-ar...
wearesolomon.com
Invisible Walls: How AI Tech at Europe's Borders Threatens People Seeking Refuge
With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders, and gaining access to the personal data of people seeking ref...
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In 2018, centrists Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and Matteo Renzi said there was a need to crack down on immigrants to keep fascists at bay. Each of their own home countries continued to intensify border enforcement and yet this did not deter the far right. It empowered them. Lesson learned?
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
La Indita is a staple in the Tucson community. They are being targeted because of their political support for various projects and organizations in Tucson and in Mexico. Please show them all the love you are able. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
tucsonsentinel.com
ICE probes Tucson restaurant La Indita, known for Indigenous focus & activism
On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials launched an investigation into La Indita — a Tucson restaurant known for its legacy of activism and focus on Indigenous food and culture.
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“Border imperialism explains one of the key mechanisms through which unequal exchange and wealth drain from the periphery is secured, and racialised hierarchy in the international system – what W.E.B du Bois referred to as the ‘global color line’, is upheld.” www.tni.org/en/borderimp...
tni.org
Border Imperialism in the Maghreb | Transnational Institute
Militarised borders are colonial constructs and their fortification in the Maghreb region serves a Western imperialist agenda. Many of the borders that demarcate African countries today owe their orig...
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A lot of people ask me whether it feels better to live in Europe than the US right now. It does not.
theguardian.com
Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death
Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Biden was monstrous and aweful in a lot of ways. But this is one good thing he did. thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com
Biden commutes sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier
President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his preside…
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Alps.
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
And as Title 42 expulsions increased, deaths (in Arizona) also increased by 48%, disproportionately affecting Mexican and Guatemalan nationals doi.org/10.1177/2331...
doi.org
Impeding Access to Asylum: Title 42 “Expulsions” and Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona - Daniel E. Martínez, Sam Chambers, Geoff Boyce, Jeremy Slack, 2024
Executive Summary Immigration at the US-México border has drastically changed since the mid-2010s. Instead of adult undocumented Mexican men, generally migratin...
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Back in Ireland.
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
www.commondreams.org/news/harris-...
commondreams.org
'Damning' New Poll Shows Price Kamala Harris Paid for Backing Israeli Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams
Vice President Kamala Harris' refusal to break with the Biden administration's support for Israel's assault on Gaza cost her millions of potential Democratic voters. Will the Democratic Party learn fr...
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"Researchers like Geoff Boyce... have published work that shows how some surveillance towers, and other border and surveillance infrastructure, create a funneling effect that corrals and drives migrants to some of the most remote and harsh desert landscapes, sometimes resulting in their deaths."
latinousa.org
The Border Has Eyes - Latino USA
Many have heard of the physical border wall that exists in different parts of the U.S.-Mexico border, but there is...
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Quoted today in the VT Digger, where they mentioned Sam, Sarah’s and my research on border surveillance towers:
vtdigger.org
Eye in the sky: The feds have quietly built surveillance towers along the Canadian border in Vermont, New York - VTDigger
VTDigger found that at least three towers first proposed in 2021 have been built in the region since — and it’s possible more are on the way.
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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geoffboyce.bsky.social @geoffboyce.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Quoted in today's Arizona Daily Star: "Using a sports metaphor, Boyce said mass deportation can be understood as an 'own goal,' that is, 'our own government sabotaging the health and well-being of the people it is supposed to serve and represent.'” #massdeportation #organize #resist
tucson.com
Tucsonans prepare for mass deportations: 'It's a sad and painful time'
Tucson high school senior Angeles says she tries to be a role model for her two younger siblings, as well as her cousins who still live in southern Mexico. The
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