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lisaherbig.bsky.social
1/6 📢 Just as Germany announces it will begin turning back asylum seekers at its borders (starting May 6), our new article in European Journal of Political Research is out:

🧵👇 “Closed borders, closed minds?”

doi.org/10.1111/1475...

#BorderPolitics #EUPolitics #Schengen #COVID19 #EJPR
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
zavaletas.bsky.social
The U.S. immigration system isn’t broken—it’s designed. Winners profit from cheap labor, detention contracts, and political spectacle. Losers live in precarity, stripped of rights and trust.

#Immigration #BorderPolitics #Labor #Democracy
Engineering Exclusion: How U.S. Immigration Sustains Instability
Exploitation is not a failure of the system—it is its foundation.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
mementomori4950.bsky.social
www.facebook.com/reel/1542420...
67K views · 724 reactions | Catholic Charities caught in White House Immigration showdown #ImmigrationPolicy #CatholicCharities #ReligiousFreedom #BorderPolitics #HumanitarianAid #ChurchAndState #USP...
Catholic Charities caught in White House Immigration showdown #ImmigrationPolicy #CatholicCharities #ReligiousFreedom #BorderPolitics #HumanitarianAid #ChurchAndState #USPolitics #FaithAndPolitics
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January 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM
zavaletas.bsky.social
The undocumented crisis wasn’t an accident. It was a labor strategy. And the spectacle of deportation? That’s governance by fear. #Immigration #DeportationTheater #PoliticalEcology #Anthropology #MigrantJustice #BorderPolitics
By Design: The Engineered Crisis of Undocumented Immigration
How U.S. policy sustains a shadow labor force through exclusion, dependence, and denial of rights.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
polrightsrev.bsky.social
Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd presents her new book Heaven Has a Wall, a powerful reflection on how U.S. borders entangle religion, law, and power.
#borderpolitics #religionandpolitics @bethhurd.bsky.social
On the Religious Politics of American Borders
A critical analysis of the US–Mexico border as a space shaped by art, control, commerce, and political paradox.
politicsrights.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM
for-medimi.bsky.social
(2/2)

👉 Check out @laura-holderied.bsky.social’s research on #VisualPolitics and representations of refugees after Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine 2022.

#MeDiMi #Migration #HumanRights #Borders #BorderPolitics
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
brandonpetersmd.com
There’s an outlet mall north of us that is usually overrun with Canadians who cross the border to shop by the busload. This food court has five restaurants and at lunchtime usually has no seating available. We must end this tariff nonsense. #boycott #Trumponomics #recessioncoming #borderpolitics
March 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
voidedmike.bsky.social
Yeah, because crossing borders by land is totally the only way—it’s not like air travel or boats exist. Nope, just land. 🙃
#BorderPolitics #Tariffs #Immigration #Mexico #GlobalIssues #PoliticalSatire #Sarcasm #CurrentEvents
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Feb 3
Mexico will deploy 10,000 national guard soldiers on the US border immediately to stop drug trafficking, President Sheinbaum announced. In response tariffs on Mexico have been paused for a month.
February 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
dinosensenews.bsky.social
Speech is free… until you try to enter the country.
They’re denying visas based on private messages and social media posts. 📺 Watch Episode 38 of Dino-Sense News.
#DinoSenseNews #SpeechIsNotACrime #SurveillanceState #BorderPolitics #NewsWithBite #art #animation
Episode 38: "Crossing Borders, Silencing Dissent: When Phones Become Evidence"
YouTube video by Dino Sense News
youtu.be
March 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
emojinews.org
🇨🇦 💰 🏗️ 🌉 🧑💼 🗣️ ➡️ 🇺🇸 👑 👆 🇨🇦 💸 🌉 🇺🇸 👑 ⛔️ 🌉 #CanadaUS #BorderPolitics
Mark Carney reminds Trump that Canada paid for key border bridge US president says he won’t open
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
tcru-ucl.bsky.social
Join us for a thought-provoking book talk with Hassan Ould Moctar on After Border Externalization. Discover how EU border policies impact lives far beyond Europe.
Thurs 14 May, 12:00 – 13:00
All welcome! #Migration #BorderPolitics #Mauritania #BookTalk #EU
tinyurl.com/zwann8f6
After border externalization: Migration, race, and labour in Mauritania
Join this book talk and hear Hassan Ould Moctar talk about Mauritian migrants' experiences in the face the EU's "border externalization" policies.
tinyurl.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
u-ortego.bsky.social
Attack dogs aren’t a scandal — they’re a signal.
Once a system treats migrants as variables, not people, cruelty becomes an optimization path.
Machinery escalates until someone outside the logic forces a halt.

#systems #borderpolitics #migration #humanrights #collapsepatterns #ortego #ICE
Senator says ICE ‘attack dog’ caused ‘horrific’ injuries to unresisting man as he was detained
Patty Murray of Washington state said ICE agents lied to Wilmer Toledo-Martinez to lure him outside before dog attacked him
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
drawnandquartered.bsky.social
Disaster Relief meets border paranoia.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #ImmigrationPolicy #TexasFloods #FEMA #BorderPolitics
#EditorialCartoon #RescueWorkers #MexicanRescue #DisasterRelief #ICE #KristiNoem #HumanRights #FloodRelief
A black-and-white political cartoon shows two Mexican rescue workers saving a frightened American boy from Texas floodwaters. A search dog runs beside them. In the background is a FEMA truck and a sign that reads ‘WELCOME TO TEXAS FLOOD RELIEF ZONE.’ On the right, a glamorous ICE officer wearing an ‘ICEE’ baseball cap stands with arms crossed, flanked by two armored ICE agents. She says, ‘Arrest those illegals for trying to help us.’ Above the scene, a banner reads ‘SECURE THE BORDER—EVEN DURING DISASTERS!’
July 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
anticapitalistmusings.com
Lee Anderson’s politics of cruelty and the theatre of border panic—how the right weaponises fear to distract from real crises.

📖 Read now: anticapitalistmusings.com/2025/06/a-na...

#LeeAnderson #BorderPolitics #CultureWar #ClassPolitics #RefugeesWelcome #StopTheHate #UKPolitics
A Nation of Strawmen: On Lee Anderson, the Politics of Cruelty, and the Theatre of Border Panic - anti capitalist musings
Lee Anderson doesn’t want a solution—he wants a stage, and the small boats crisis is just the latest prop in Britain’s long-running theatre of cruelty
anticapitalistmusings.com
June 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
willyandbill.bsky.social
satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/what-the-m...
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#UKPolitics #NigelFarage #ReformUK #LabourParty #KeirStarmer #ShabanaMahmood #Immigration #AsylumPolicy #BorderPolitics #TacticalVoting #ElectoralReform #FirstPastThePost #BritishMedia #PoliticalNarratives #Populism #PartyFunding #Polling #DonorPolitics
What The Media Won’t Admit About Farage: The Panic Has Started
Britain’s political class is no longer laughing at Nigel Farage. It is copying him on borders, coordinating against him, and quietly admitting Reform now sets the agenda.
satiricalplanet.substack.com
March 7, 2026 at 9:43 PM
mrbusinessthecat.bsky.social
Trump is using a Florida tragedy to distract from his own failed immigration "solutions." Blaming federal judges for a system he’s been "fixing" for years is a classic move: scream about the problem, ignore the incompetence, and hope no one looks at the data. #Trump #BorderPolitics
April 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
stratheia.bsky.social
When political borders don’t match social geography, conflict becomes chronic. Could negotiated territorial restructuring offer Afghanistan a path toward durable stability?
#BorderPolitics #ConflictResolution #AfghanStability
stratheia.com/redrawing-af...
Redrawing Afghanistan’s Political Map - Stratheia
Can Afghanistan achieve stability by aligning political borders with ethnic realities? Exploring restructuring as a path to peace.
stratheia.com
February 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
gothiclg.bsky.social
The desperation is hilarious. If ICE was doing the right thing they wouldn’t have to advertise job openings.

#ICE #Immigration #MassDeportations #Trump #ICEAds #ImmigrationPolicy #Desperation #GovernmentJobs #BorderPolitics #ImmigrationNews #APNews

apnews.com/article/trum...
ICE airs ads stirring up local frustration to recruit police for mass deportation efforts
An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
dukieboy2.bsky.social
Fixing the border by letting Army barracks fall apart? That’s trading readiness for politics. Troops shouldn’t have to live in crumbling housing because funds got yanked for a headline. Priorities matter.
#Military #Army #DefenseBudget #BorderPolitics taskandpurpose.com/news/army-ba...
Army barracks repairs could suffer if money shifts to border, top general acknowledges
If money is pulled from barracks upkeep, the Army would make fewer repairs and renovations, said Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George.
taskandpurpose.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
mgbfilms.bsky.social
Bc after dodging cartels, crossing rivers, and trekking thousands of miles, a billboard is definitely the dealbreaker. Don’t forget the “No trespassing” signs to the Rio Grande 🙄

#BorderPolitics #ImmigrationDebate #TexasLogic
#Texas
#TexasNews

www.kxan.com/state-of-tex...
State of Texas: Gov. Abbott unveils billboards to deter migrants, before they reach Texas border
Gov. Greg Abbott announced the state is placing dozens of billboards in Central American and Mexican cities to deter potential migrants from making the trek north. Abbott said the messaging on the …
www.kxan.com
December 22, 2024 at 7:08 PM
wolfscartoons.bsky.social
„Alien“

#Alien #Immigration #AI #HumanoidRobots #Robotics #TechPolicy #BorderPolitics #WolfsCartoon

open.substack.com/pub/wolfgang...
„Alien“
Striche, die die Welt (be-)deuten
open.substack.com
July 30, 2026 at 6:51 AM
gothiclg.bsky.social
It’s hilarious to me that pointing out her job sucks was enough to get her fired. It’s more proof you shouldn’t work in immigration right now.

#Immigration #GovernmentFail #JusticeDepartment #ICE #BorderPolitics #Trump

www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/p...
Trump admin attorney leaves Minnesota after telling judge her job ‘sucks’ amid crush of immigration cases | CNN Politics
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney detailed to Minnesota to help handle the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities has been removed from her post after telling a ...
www.cnn.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:56 PM
rmsiusa.bsky.social
#Europe2026 #EuropeanPolitics #GeopoliticalShift #PoliticalRisk #StrategicForecast #Populism #Nationalism #Sovereignty #PopulistGovernance #FracturedEurope #FromFringeToPower #PoliticsOfIdentity #OrderAndControl #MigrationCrisis #ImmigrationDebate #BorderPolitics #AsylumPolicy
February 10, 2026 at 2:10 PM
runwithblake.bsky.social
Trump declares a national emergency at the southern border, deploying the military. Because nothing says ‘welcome’ like armed troops. #BorderPolitics #HumanRights
January 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
stratheia.bsky.social
Afghanistan’s stance reflects political hesitation, not legal ambiguity. Without formal legal challenge, the Durand Line’s status remains intact.
#BorderPolitics #Afghanistan #DurandLine
stratheia.com/the-durand-l...
The Durand Line: A Settled Frontier in Law, Tested in Politics - Stratheia
The Durand Line remains legally settled under international law, with political contestation persisting despite treaty continuity.
stratheia.com
April 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM