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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 03/06/2026

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism Type Investigations fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

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The Death of Asylum

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism

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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 29/06/2026

Afghan asylum seekers fled a crisis the US had a direct role in fomenting—only to become targets in Trump’s immigration crackdown. @typeinvestigations.org fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra

Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 01/07/2026

The Biden administration’s policies “were already hurting asylum seekers…and a second Trump administration [spelled] disaster for Afghans,” @tanvi.bsky.social writes. “Two years later, the disaster is unfolding as a slow burn.”

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The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

On this episode of On the Nose, @tanvi.bsky.social and John Washington discuss the slow death of asylum—and whether it was ever really "alive and well." An important listen in light of the Supreme Court's devastating rulings on TPS and asylum policy. jewishcurrents.org/democracy-an...

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 05/07/2026

“The Trump administration has developed a range of methods to weaponize a system already stacked against asylum seekers…. To an unprecedented degree, many have been sent to third countries with which they had no ties, from Panama to Ghana.” —@tanvi.bsky.social

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The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra

Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 06/07/2026

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The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 11/07/2026

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The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra

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chuckmertz.bsky.social @chuckmertz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

NEW FREE HELL! @typemediacenter.org fellow and @fspnwu.bsky.social 's @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum: How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved the way for authoritarianism.” Keep us free! www.patreon.com/posts/new-he...

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New Hell! Tanvi Misra on the End of Asylum | This Is Hell!

New Hell! Tanvi Misra on the End of Asylum by This Is Hell! on Patreon. Join This Is Hell!'s community for exclusive content and updates.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

SUBSTACKED THIS AND OTHER RECENT WORK HERE: substack.com/@tanvimisra/...

Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

For the latest issue for @readlux.bsky.social , I followed a couple of different groups of court watchers earlier this year. The piece (if you don’t have your copy in hand yet) is also online now! lux-magazine.com/articlea/ice...

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All Eyes on ICE

Court watchers get inside the deportation machine.

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The walls that keep *them* out inevitably wind up keeping *you* in.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism. jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"By stripping the right to asylum, nations are creating a growing underclass of placeless, rightless people to police in perpetuity, and an ever-greater policing apparatus with which to crack down on them—and, increasingly, everyone else" - @tanvi.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak with resettled refugee Afghan families or those in the asylum process affected by recent Trump policies for a story. Can protect ID! Please reach out at tanvim.05 on signal.

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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 24/02/2026

We are excited to announce that Rachael Bedard, Jasper Craven, Jasmine Garsd @jasgarsd.bsky.social, Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social, Ryan “R.L.” Nave @rlnave.bsky.social, and Katie Rose Quandt will be joining the Type Media Center fellowship program: typemediacenter.org/2026/02/24/t...

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Type Media Center Welcomes Six Journalists As Fellows - Type Media Center

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Doing investigative fellowship with the good folks at Type Media, covering-- no surprise--immigration. Pls reach out if you have investigative tips (real tips! pls don't give me story ideas, i've been on this beat for a decade!) I'm at tanvim.05 on signal. typemediacenter.org/fellows/tanv...

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Tanvi Misra - Type Media Center

The Fellowship Program provides emerging and established journalists the support needed to write on complex social and political issues. Our fellows form a unique community of thinkers and writers and...

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 16/01/2026

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

Guild member detained by ICE in Minnesota
January 16, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dylan Manshack, Comms | dmanshack@cwa-union.org | 202-445-4033
Member remains in ICE custody in Texas
MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and
Communications Guild, TNG-CWA Local 37002, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
While the circumstances of his arrest are not clear, we know he has been transferred to an ICE detention facility
in El Paso, Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
The Guild is not publicly identifying the member out of concern for his family’s safety, but he is a father, a
husband, and a staff member at a Minneapolis non-profit organization. He is a steward in our union and an
advocate for all workers. And he is one of dozens of Minnesota union members who have been detained in
recent weeks.
The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests since the surge began in
December, according to an MPR News report. But the agency has not provided details about the people
arrested, such as how many were charged with a crime, how many face deportation, and how many were
subsequently released.
“The Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild stands with our member and his family as they face an
uncertainty that is all too common in our state right now,” local president Nick Woltman said. “Like all
Minnesota workers, our members deserve to feel safe in their communities both on and off the job.”
“The detention of a Guild member in Minnesota amidst the chaos created by DHS is heartbreaking and
infuriating,” said NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss. “My heart goes out to his family, who are now
without their father and husband. As a union, we commit to fight for each other as stewards of our
communities—especially in times as dark as this, while federal agents continue to target working families.”
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

reading this by @tanvi.bsky.social 'as the new mayor takes office, the bigger question is not what he symbolizes for immigrant communities but what benefits he might deliver for them if he can realize his vision of an affordable city.'

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Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra

Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation

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migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...

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What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?

More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.

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Type Investigations @typeinvestigations.org · 12/12/2025

As we wrap up year one of Trump’s second administration, we invited @adamfederman.bsky.social, @tanvi.bsky.social, and @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social back to the Backstory to talk about how the year has gone and how they think things will develop going forward. open.spotify.com/episode/2UOo...

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Adam Federman, Tanvi Misra, and Kathryn Joyce: Lessons from One Year of Reporting on Trump

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

”Yet immigrants, of course, are not a monolith. They have taken different paths to America and had different experiences upon arrival—and they tell themselves different stories about their own luck and circumstance.” Important read/reminder 👇

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra

Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I revived my dead substack and did a roundup of everything i wrote last year: all my essays and investigations and magazine pieces on immigration, the topic I've covered for a decade at this point. PLS READ & SUBSCRIBE substack.com/home/post/p-...

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All the things I wrote

...in 2025

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless. nymag.com/intelligence...

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What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?

More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 09/12/2025

For years, ICE has used the latest surveillance technology to target immigrants, now it’s using this technology to target anti-ICE protesters. This is a serious threat to Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

!! Comms folks, PR ppl, press officers, public liaisons, spokespersons!! Please put my new email on your press lists: reporting@tanvimisra.com. I'm also on tanvi.misra@protonmail.com for secure tips and tanvim.05 on Signal. (Pls delete/ swap out any other emails on file!)

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Read @tanvi.bsky.social on migrants who have been rendered stateless — deported by the US then exiled by the countries of their birth — and the black hole in which they find themselves nymag.com/intelligence...

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What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?

More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.

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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I appreciate that @tanvi.bsky.social highlights a deported refugee, now stateless, who committed a crime all of us find egregious Deportations in no way address harm or sexual violence and the immigrants' rights space needs to move away from respectability politics nymag.com/intelligence...

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What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?

More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You can believe he deserved it or that he didn’t. That’s up to you.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I experienced sexual assault when I was around the same age as the victim hurt of this man in my story, so l know damage it does. Still think it’s worth questioning the lack of due process and a system that disproportionately punishes some people (in this case, doubly, triply) — and not others.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I knew I’d get some of this. It IS journalism, actually, to go beyond simplistic notions of good and evil that rely on a high school idea of morality & question how systems work against people who are very sympathetic as well as those who have done grave harm, because both those people are people.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Big thanks to the editors and fact checkers at @nymag.com for investing in the "stranded" -- See the other two installments here: nymag.com/intelligence... nymag.com/intelligence...

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Why Did DHS Send a Russian Exile to Costa Rica?

How Trump’s third-country removal strategy forced an asylum-seeking family to start over — in Monteverde.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

But I am glad we did it bc as journalists (and i tell my students this) it's important to do stories that make us uncomfortable, lean into complexity, and represent people who are flawed and who may have done bad things as well as those who haven't. There are no perfect victims.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

On a personal note, this story was difficult to do at times, logistically, to have multiple conversations in Hindi with someone on the other side of the world who lives in a shadow space -- a camp -- and emotionally (in part, bc of my own experiences with sexual assault).

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

he abolitionist organization Freedom for Immigrants is against such deportations, given that marginalized groups are already disproportionately policed and imprisoned for crimes.

Many have been deported after serving out their full sentences — “What we call double jeopardy or double punishment,” said Jeff Migliozzi, communications director of Freedom for Immigrants. Those who are thrown into what Migliozzi refers to as the “prison-to-ICE pipeline” tend to be long-term legal immigrants — permanent residents and immigrant-visa holders — who have spent a substantial amount of time and established deep roots in the U.S. Effectively, the system is “punishing people twice, or in this case, even three times, based on where someone was born,” he said. “That is the deciding factor here — if they were born in the United States, they would otherwise be going home.”

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If the justice system "works," then why is a deportion and, in this case, this permanent stripping of status (and, by extension) human rights needed? Is that punishment fair or proportionate? Is it the best way to hold people accountable for the harm they did?

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A key question the story raises is about the moral consequence of deporting people who have done their time -- and doing so in the way the Trump admin has, by rushing due process and sending people to third countries at a scale never seen before.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

They are living on private donations from friends and family abroad -- and gathered by local human rights groups as the world moves on.

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