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Naman Rawat

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PhD researcher at Stockholm University| Visiting scholar at Mannheim University | Migration researcher| Far-right parties| Causal inference and use of Machine Learning in substantive research.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 11/09/2026
Over the last five years I've been very discouraged at the way politicians in Sweden have insinuated that those of us who have become citizens in the last ten years are a threat or illegitimate.
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Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We are looking for a full-time Research Manager based in Hyderabad! Please apply/share with your networks! tinyurl.com/telanganaRM
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RESEARCH MANAGER POSITION Project: “Training Elected Women Representatives on Ecological Commons” Lead Researchers Dr. Rachel Brulé (Boston University, USA) Dr. Bhumi Purohit (Georgetown University...
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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Remember all those articles about how young men are becoming much more right wing and pro-Reform than older men? Well it turns out the opposite is actually true
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Pia Raffler @piaraffler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577
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Alejandro Fernández-Roldán @aleferna.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If you work on public opinion and/or political behaviour you might want to consider submitting your abstract(s) to JCPOP 2026 in Barcelona - All the info 👇
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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 14/06/2026
📝 The deadline for abstract submission is 30 June 2026 More info @ ergaxia.gr/diorganoseis... The conference is organised with the participation of the Department of Business and Organizations Management (DEO), University of the Peloponnese, Kalamata, and the Municipality of Kalamata.
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RC26 ISA International Conference 2026 – Ergaxia
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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
🔓New #OpenAccess at ESR Do people avoid dating political opponents because of politics itself? #ShannonTaflinger @hudde.bsky.social suggest otherwise! Political affiliation is used as a proxy for non-political characteristics: similarity, character, and social approval! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag020
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@annagbusse.bsky.social and I are here for u osf.io/preprints/so...
Abstract of linked paper: 

Good Description*Daniel de Kadt†Anna Grzymala-Busse‡November 20, 2025AbstractWhat distinguishes ‘good’ description from ‘mere’ description? We propose a framework forevaluating descriptive empirical social science, premised on the idea that descriptive research –like all empirical social science – should be grounded in theory. First, we articulate the social sci-entific purpose of description, which provides criteria for assessing descriptivequestions. Gooddescriptive questions uncover facts in need of explanation, build and refine theory, or help to as-sess and revise theory. Second, we articulate three ideal characteristics of descriptiveanalyses:clarity, comparability, and completeness. Good description is thus tightly and transparently linkedto specific research questions (and thus to theory), well contextualized, and as comprehensive inmeasurement and specification as possible
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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 06/06/2026
Today is Sweden's National Day. The new citizenship law will go into effect today. This means ~100,000 pending applications citizenship applications will likely be rejected, an act of quasi-retroactive law making. A sad day for Sweden.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 21/05/2026
Ignoring the obvious issues of creating a tiered system of punishment, stripping citizenship as a punishment isn't effective because people can just renounce their non-Swedish citizenship. All it does is chip away at the rule of law and weaken the value of citizenship.
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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
⚖️ Does electoral uncertainty make governments short sighted? ➡️ Using Swedish local data, @axelcronert.bsky.social & Pär Nyman show electoral competition moderates tax policy, but find little evidence of policy myopia www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Reminder: 🎓 XIV Workshop on Empirical Political Science 📅 Save the date 3 July 2026 • 10:00–13:30 📍 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @politiquesuab.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/barcelo...
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Barcelona PhD Workshop
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FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences @forsresearch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Pre-announcement: Call for questions, Selects 2027 Contribute your questions to the Swiss electoral study during the 2027 federal elections. 📅 Call: end of April 2026 🗓 Deadline: end of June 2026 Selects 2023, including datasets, questionnaires & documentation www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue...
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
1/ New paper (Open Access) which asks a simple but often overlooked question: what do we actually mean when we move between institutional, structural and systemic racism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ersjournal.com
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Looking through racism’s lenses: institutional, structural and systemic readings across the ERS archive
This article returns to the Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) archive to examine how institutional, structural, and systemic racism have been defined, operationalised, and related across five decades...
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Fascinating.
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.
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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The British state getting into bed with Palantir is just incredibly blackpilling, especially since it is being done by a Labour government who are composed of the exact sort of people that Palantir's owners and operators openly say they wish to drive from power forever! Inept self-loathing fools.
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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
⁉️ Are anti-immigration people really "sexually modern"? No ⁉️ Are people more supportive of anti-immigration platforms when these also include progressive positions on gender and sexuality? Also no I explore these questions w/ 🇬🇧🇩🇪 original survey data (+ a conjoint in 🇩🇪) 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 17/03/2026
AI systems are now making decisions about you — who gets hired, whose content gets removed, whose voice gets heard. My new paper finds something concerning: LLMs infer your ethnic identity from subtle textual cues… … and use it to discriminate against you. 🧵 1/
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Large Language Models Reproduce Racial Stereotypes When Used for Text Annotation
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated text annotation in tasks ranging from academic research to content moderation and hiring. Across 19 LLMs and two experiments totaling m...
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
„The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy – for the first time in over 50 years. […] The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history“ (V-Dem 2026)
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program: a new initiative designed to develop a new network within the EPSS community. March 31 is deadline, and program runs from May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027. More info: epssnet.org/about/divers...
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Mentorship program - EPSS
The EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program. This initiative builds on the success of this scheme by the LGBTQ+ group in previous years. The EPSS Mentoring Program is a new initiative designed  to develop a new network of contacts within the EPSS community.  Our mentoring program is designed …
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
MEGA could well outlast MAGA. Do European countries have strong enough institutional and constitutional checks to survive giving power to the far-right? Hungary didn't, Poland is struggling, the UK definitely doesn't. Democracy is incredibly fragile. Once it's lost it's very hard to restore.
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Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Out in @thejop.bsky.social: How Exiles Mobilize Domestic Dissent with @aasiegel.bsky.social We investigate how Egyptian exiles influenced a cascade of online dissent that culminated in anti-regime protests back home in September 2019. Article link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Thomas Sattler @sattlersthomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Academia's Class Problem: First-Generation Scholars in Political Science
Political scientists devote a massive amount of attention to socioeconomic background of political actors and descriptive representation in political institutio
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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
❗️ Tue, Mar 10, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Kåre Vernby ( @stockholm-uni.bsky.social ) "The Local Roots of the Nationalization of Politics" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2
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Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In Sweden, most PhD students work at 80% contract to extend funding. Now international PhDs are being deported for doing exactly that. So much for “Swedish exceptionalism”. www.tv4.se/artikel/ZhUi...
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Doktoranden Fahimas hotas av utvisning – sista året
Indisk doktorand i Göteborg hotas av utvisning. Backas upp av Centrum för rättvisa.
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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Had a great conversation with @andyluttrell.bsky.social on why even the best messaging won't bring everyone to your side, and all things immigration opinion and politics. Give it a listen! opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/maki...
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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚 I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.
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The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe
Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…
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Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 21/02/2026
The current processing time for a citizenship application in Sweden is 47 months. The government wants to apply new citizenship requirements to people who applied for citizenship years ago but are still waiting. There is grassroots mobilization against this: www.fairtransitionsweden.com
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Fair Transition — Transition Clause for Swedish Citizenship
Sweden's new citizenship law lacks transition provisions for pending applications. We advocate for a transition clause to protect good-faith applicants.
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Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Update: As @robfordmancs.bsky.social said to @theguardian.com, zero net migration may offer Labour "the opportunity to steer the domestic political agenda away from" Reform's key topic. Other experts stress that Labour loses votes to Greens & LD. Yes, *for now*, but Labour may play the long game.
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Ulf Bjereld @ulfbjereld.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Professor Ludvig Beckman lämnar sin plats i Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest. Utvisningspolitiken är nu så omänsklig att den strider mot grundlagen, anser han. – Jag kan inte legitimera utvisningar av 18-åringar som växt upp här och som har föräldrar som bor här, säger han."
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Han lämnar Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest – kallar politiken omänsklig
Professor Ludvig Beckman lämnar Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest. Utvisningspolitiken är nu så omänsklig att den strider mot grundlagen, anser han.
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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
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When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
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Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Very very likely that Trump might attack Iran.... just to create a distraction from what is happening with ICE in Minnesota. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US-Iran relations: Is the US preparing to strike Iran?
Satellite images show a steady and significant build-up of US military forces in the region.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 21/01/2026
The “criminal immigrant" narrative manufactured by the US media-propaganda apparatus psychologically embeds immigrants into racial hierarchies within the social imagination PDF: joeledmartinez.com/wp-content/u...
Screenshot of an article abstract by Joel E. Martinez et al called "Narratives Shape Cognitive Representations of Immigrants and Immigration-Policy Preferences"

Abstract:
Scholars from across the social and media sciences have issued a clarion call to address a recent resurgence in criminalized characterizations of immigrants. Do these characterizations meaningfully impact individuals'
beliefs about immigrants and immigration? Across two online convenience samples (total N = 1,054 adult U.S. residents), we applied a novel analytic technique to test how different narratives-achievement, criminal, and struggle-oriented- impacted cognitive representations of German, Russian, Syrian, and Mexican immigrants and the concept of immigrants in general. All stories featured male targets.
Achievement stories homogenized individual immigrant representations, whereas both criminal and struggle-oriented stories racialized them along a White/non-White axis: Germany clustered with Russia, and Syria clustered with Mexico. However, criminal stories were unique in making our most egalitarian participants' representations as differentiated as our least egalitarian participants'. Narratives about individual immigrants also generalized to update representations of nationality groups. Most important, narrative-induced representations correlated with immigration-policy preferences: Achievement narratives and corresponding homogenized representations promoted preferences for less restriction, and criminal narratives promoted preferences for more.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Cartoon by @mortenmorland.bsky.social.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The NYT has a new video analysis of Renee Good's shooting which is careful, accurate, and clear - he walked across the path of a moving car, then leaned in and shot her with his feet well clear of the vehicle. 1/
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Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 13/01/2026
Just so people understand the timeline: (1) The president of the United States called Somali-Americans "garbage" and the Vice President says that the US has a "Somali Problem". (2) The White House directs immigration agencies to Minnesota due to its large Somali community.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
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