
Adam Isacson
@adam_wola
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bsky: @adamisacson.com masto: @[email protected] Defense, security, borders, and migration at @WOLA_org. Positions are not necessarily WOLA's consensus view.
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Joined January 2009
ICE deportation flights are up 63% over the February-April average. And this is set to multiply: Congress just gave the agency $14.4 billion for aerial deportations over the next 4 years.
Ø 1/7 plane eyes June: 1,187 total flights - highest level since I started recording in Jan 2020. Over prior high of May of 1,083 and next highest 856 in Aug 2023. Significantly over the prior 6-month average by 434 (58%). Exec Summary Pages 3-11.
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Big ruling. The idea that a president can seize emergency powers or suspend rights over an “invasion” of migrants—leaderless people, often families, often with humanitarian needs—is as scary as it is ridiculous. There’s nothing new about large numbers of migrants at the border:
NEW: Judge MOSS' ruling found that Trump's "invasion" proclamation — accompanied by an attempt to add new restrictions on asylum for border crossers — was an attempt to establish an "alternative immigration system" with no basis in the law.
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Using the number that @camiloreports obtained for June, here's how Border Patrol apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border compare over the initial months of Trump's two terms.
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The last time Border Patrol migrant apprehensions averaged less than 6,000 per month at the U.S.-Mexico border was 1956-1965.
CBS News: The number of migrants crossing the southern border illegally set a new historic low in June, continuing an extraordinary lull in illegal immigration. Border Patrol detained 6,000 migrants last month, a level the Biden administration recorded in 24 hours on many days.
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"Total peace can’t be your security policy. You need to have peace and security efforts complement each other.". In the latest episode of @WOLA_org's podcast, @gimena_wola and I dive deeply into #Colombia's faltering security situation.
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As @WOLA_org pointed out last month, the bill’s $45 billion for detention over the next 4 years would give private contractors more money than it would cost to build new stadiums for all 30 Major League Baseball teams.
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