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Julian Lim

@julimwest.bsky.social
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Historian of immigration, borders, race, and law. Loves dogs.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Louisiana. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Children facing the camera | text: ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11h
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 9h
I’ve never been very active on social media bc of work and bc I fret over every word. But book #2 is done, my inbox is miraculously under control, and I’ve decided to be brave. I will probably post/repost about immigration and borders, but for now, I introduce my little Ms. Mochi to the world.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Heat killed a 24 yr old farm worker in Mississippi in Sept. Republican-backed AB6213 would block all national heat regs. We must stop this bill. Email your US Rep today. We must stop these heat deaths. Two minutes of your time can save lives. 1/2
A photo of farm workers laboring on what looks like a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez

Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North MississippiFarm workers working on a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Perez had barely started working for the season.

Mississippi has some of the most dangerous working conditions in the country.

Second highest worker death rate in the country.

The state is one of the five states that doesn't have its own labor enforcement agency.Farm workers working on a very hot backgrounds with the text overlay: 

"If heat regulations became a standard and the employer was in full compliance with that standard, that worker would likely be alive today."

- Jordan Barab, Former OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary

Heat regulations save lives.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15h
"Carlos" is in Oxnard CA opening rows to start planting strawberries. He's dreading the predicted El Niño storms as it will mean harvesting in the slippery mud under a cold rain. "People never think about how the stores remain stocked even during crazy weather storms." #WeFeedYou
A black and white picture of a strawberry field as the roads are being open and it's just about ready to start planting
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11h
Good: Abolish ICE Even better:
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Let us show gratitude to the many farmworker mothers who keep our families fed year round as we celebrate Mother's Day. #WEFEEDYOU
The words: Happy Mother's Day! On a blue sky with a white UFW eagle below itA white UFW eagle on a blue sky with dirt below with little plant seedlings and the words: Let us show gratitude to the many farmworker mothers who keep our families fed year round!

# WE FEED YOU
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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trump’s mass deportation as forever war. Unfortunately fitting analogy. The militarized War on Drugs is too. With all the problems that entails. Except terrorism and drugs are real dangers, and immigrants are not. In other words, the problem isn’t just ICE. It’s the growing ICE-industrial complex.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 25/02/2026
It's time to end for-profit private prisons. Corporations shouldn’t be incentivized and make billions of dollars off putting people behind bars. I’m leading the charge to end this broken and inhumane system.
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Supreme Court rules against GEO GROUP in $1 a day labor immigration detainee lawsuit in Aurora - Sentinel Colorado
The Aurora prison has been a magnet for protests, complaints and lawsuits for years.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Watch this.
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Louder for the people in the back, this was never about illegal immigration but about stopping legal nonwhite immigration
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Minnesota still needs your attention
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The Migrant's Jail by @briannanofil.bsky.social is very on point as well, speaking to local communities and their role in shaping or resisting detention centers and the practices of detention.
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Reminds me of the work of Patricia Macias-Rojas, who followed the money for her first book, From Deportation to Prison, and showed how the process of criminalization and immigration enforcement reshaped detention and deportation policy in dramatic ways.
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"The Hagerstown facility is the first of what leaked documents suggest could be a network of up to 25 detention sites under consideration nationwide. Six other facilities have been purchased in Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona." Where is the money coming from? And who is profiting?
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
@projectsaltbox.bsky.social is doing phenomenal work digging up data that is not readily accessible for most of us.
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you're in Baltimore and the DMV area, please join us on April 17 for a timely discussion about immigration history and law. A symposium commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Page Act: (schedule) history.jhu.edu/event/schoul...
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Recent PhDs! Here's an excellent postdoc opportunity in a super cool city with some pretty awesome colleagues. krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
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Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced for 2025–2027 | The Chloe Center
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2025. Chloe...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/12/2024
Mass deportation is not inherently more practical, feasible, or realistic than open borders, but the collective imagination in this country can picture one much more easily than the other. There is a politics to what we see as im/possible.
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