Join our book discussion with Cornell Law School on Wed., May 1 as Marielena Hincapié interviews Jonathan Blitzer about his new book on migration from Central America

For those at LA Times Festival of Books, this is today at 3PM!

Talking on the pod this week about imagery of strife and brutality, both speculative and very, very real. If I could kiss the brains of Naomi Fry and Vinson Cunningham I would but I can't so instead we talk every week and it rules.

open.spotify.com/episode/2pNHdA…

Sound familiar? Presidential frontrunner in Panama vows simply to 'close' the Darien Gap:
theguardian.com/global-develop…

This is tonight, at 6:15. Don't forget to register if you plan on coming!

Biden admin just scored a legal victory in GOP-led case, Arizona v. Garland, against the asylum officer rule

Louisiana judge found that LA & FL didn't have standing to challenge the rule bc couldn't show were harmed by it

Potential implications for other court cases...

Encuentran los textos en la sección dominical de epinvestiga.com— y mucho más en esta edición inaugural de ElP Investiga 🔥❤️🇬🇹

And then dreams do come true! My words in Rolling Stone!!!!!!!

“Must-read book” is an overused term but it applies to ⁦Jonathan Blitzer’s ‘Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here.’

Here is my review: washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/…

Grateful for this extremely thoughtful review of 'Everyone Who is Gone Is Here' in The Nation Books and the Arts 👇

Today my book, In The Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention came out. I worked on it for almost a decade. It is my deepest hope people read and engage with it.

Don't miss this! Thursday evening!

Really looking forward to this panel—this weekend!—at the LA Times Festival of Books. With Nathan Thrall and Steve Coll. If you're in LA come join us! events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…

This was such a special, meaningful night! Thank you, La Clínica del Pueblo !

Join me for a virtual discussion w/ Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker on May 1st at 1 pm EDT on the politics & policy of #immigration in the U.S. and his #book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here. Register free via eCornell ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overv…

Reading Jonathan Blitzer’s book and was struck by this anecdote from the first days of Reagan’s presidency, and the ways in which rhetoric like this is echoed in today’s right-wing freak out about Haitian migrants.

This Thursday, at Columbia, I'll be speaking with historian, journalist, & dear friend Rachel Nolan. We'll be talking abt her brilliant book on the history of forced adoption in Guatemala & abt my own book on Central American migration to the US. Join us: sofheyman.org/events/central…

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Honored by this award & grateful for editor Zahira Torres & team Lexi Churchill Jinitzail Hernández Juanita Ceballos. But we are always heartbroken & infuriated for the people of Uvalde - not only that this happened, but that two years later, they still fight for transparency & accountability.

“Two things,” I write in a feature(!) for The American Prospect, “are both true.

“One, America is in danger of turning its back on the global order set by the Refugee Convention…

“Two, America still loves a refugee.”

prospect.org/justice/2024-0…