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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When the DHS attorney references the recent 10th circuit bond ruling, says he can’t pronounce it but then just starts saying Quiznos….

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 27/07/2026

Tomorrow 1pm ET: I'm hosting Univ. of Denver students who spent 6 months inside Aurora's ICE detention court. ~450 hearings observed, no one who filed for relief won, bond denied in 3 of 4. With @rgalemba.bsky.social. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Analyzing six months of bond hearings in the Aurora, CO immigration court. From @rgalemba.bsky.social and Ella Iveslatt. open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/j...

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Jurisdictional Evasion

How mandatory detention keeps people detained with little to no opportunity to be heard

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

time.com/7295195/ai-c... This track with my day. If you’re going to ask ChatGPT to use direct quotes from readings you may want t double check them when supposedly (but clearly do not) come from your professor’s article…

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy to support @daveyseligman.bsky.social on Day 1 for CO AG, one of the smartest and hardest working people I know who will stand up for workers and all Coloradans

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SAW @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

We are excited to announce two grant opportunities for current grad students and post-PhD scholars who do not hold a tenure-track faculty position. The maximum amount across both grant programs is $6000. Apply by May 15, 2025. Link for more info.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I am going to try to live post from @udenveraaup.bsky.social's National Day of Action event today. Excited to kick things off with @rgalemba.bsky.social and @marieberry.bsky.social 🥰

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Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New research by Korbel Prof @rgalemba.bsky.social examines how long-term residents along the Mexico–Guatemala border have perceived Central American migrants and refugees over time. These evolving perceptions highlight how 'transit spaces' challenge assumptions about territory and belonging.

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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Wiley Online Library

Scholars have attuned to the challenges Central American migrants face along increasingly perilous northward journeys. However, most studies of “transit spaces” are relatively migrant-centric, focusi...

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

www.denverpost.com/2025/02/10/t...

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Scrivner Institute of Public Policy @scrivnerinstitute.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Featuring @naazneenbarma.bsky.social @rgalemba.bsky.social, Ilene Grabel, and Fritz Mayer from @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social & @govindpersad.bsky.social from Sturm College of Law We will have a recording of the event posted to our YouTube shortly after if you can't join in person: bit.ly/4jN5xHq

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A very important reminder. ICE can't go inside a house without the permission of someone there. Administrative warrants are not judicial warrants.

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Oh crap for a system that was already hanging by a thread and full of chaos, backlog, and confusion.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

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Immigration Policy Tracking Project

A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Please spread this information in this graphic as well! Also consider calling your Senators about the Riley Laken Act 202-224-3121 bsky.app/profile/male...

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The only good thing about returning from break with bronchitis was being able to finish this book penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/e… @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social Now hoping for magic from my zpac and prednisone

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Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

1/3: New report by Professor @rgalemba.bsky.social, Cyril Bennouna, & MA student Alejandro Chávez evaluates "Bienvenidos a Denver," a program by Centro de los Trabajadores Colorado supporting migrants' integration in Colorado.

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Happy to provide commentary on this case alongside @daveyseligman.bsky.social Towards Justice. Hope these workers get justice and accountability. www.aspenpublicradio.org/social-justi...

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just got my Gmail down from 40,000 plus to 50 and about 15,000 in outlook down to about the same. Feeling refreshed and bleary eyed.

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Toward an Anthropology that Cares in American Anthropologist w/ Nikky Greer, K. Jill Fleuriet, and Sallie Han. Results from the Academic Carework project and more

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

New article on teaching immigration courtwatch in Practicing Anthropology w/ Sarah Horton and Kristin Yarris www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Contraband Cultures out today open access w/ UCL Press. It was a pleasure to write the conclusion for these excellent chapters led by Jennifer Cearns and Charles Beach uclpress.co.uk/book/contrab...

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

New article in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthro: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Hey #BlueAnthro, if coming to AAAs in Toronto, join Rebecca Galemba, Neena Mahadev, Brooke Bocast, Bruce Whitehouse, @lbhungalia.bsky.social and myself for a book launch party at Pint Public House: maps.app.goo.gl/FptYgAuTxtEM... from 9pm on Fri 17th All are welcome! It will be MASSIVE, we hear...

poster featuring six book covers and information on the Massive Book Launch Party

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

CFP roundtable for Law and Society Denver June 6-9, calling legal scholars, social science and humanities scholars working on immigration, asylum, detention inside and outside the classroom docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Anyone working on immigration, labor, asylum and community engaged learning and wants to join a panel for LSA denver in June please reach out!

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