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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
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Adam Isacson
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By comparison: in 2024, ICE had a "transportation and removal operations" budget of just $721.4 million. That is, "$0.72 billion" for the year. See page 631 here:
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Adam Isacson
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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.
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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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Adam Isacson
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In recent months the Trump administration has deported a quarter of Mexican citizens to Chiapas and Tabasco, the country's two southernmost states (red).
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Adam Isacson
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The United States delivered people to a foreign torture prison. Ábrego García:.- Was beaten with batons.- Was forced to kneel overnight, beaten if he collapsed, made to soil himself.- Heard screams as gang members freely harmed each other.- Lost 31 lbs.
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Adam Isacson
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This "five-minute procedural vote" is now in its fourth hour.
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Jamie Dupree
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Republicans have enough votes to win this procedural vote on the House floor right now - but evidently not enough to approve their giant tax and budget bill. Arms are now being twisted behind closed doors.
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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:
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Kyle Cheney
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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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Adam Isacson
9 days
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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Adam Isacson
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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.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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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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Adam Isacson
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Murkowski voted yes. Paul, Tillis, and Collins voted no. 50-50 tie. Vance broke it. The horrible bill has passed.
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Adam Isacson
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On his TikTok, Venezuelan citizen Ángel Ignacio Cárdenas criticized Diosdado Cabello, the nation's feared interior minister. The Trump admin deported Cárdenas and 205 other Venezuelans on June 28. Who was on hand to receive the plane?. Diosdado Cabello.
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Adam Isacson
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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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Adam Isacson
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The bill before the Senate today will throw 12 million Americans off health insurance (CBO estimate). Cutting taxes for the wealthiest leaves no money for that. But apparently, there's money for this:
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Adam Isacson
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The Roberts Court. DC v. Heller (2008).Citizens United v. FEC (2010).Shelby County v. Holder (2013).Trump v. Hawaii (2018).Dobbs v. Jackson WHO (2022).Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC (2023).Trump v. United States (2024).Shadow docket (2024-25). Trump v. CASA (2025).
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Adam Isacson
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They actually just said. "The Secretary determined that, overall, country conditions have improved to the point where Haitians can return home in safety.".
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Adam Isacson
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This bill will disfigure the United States, demographically and democratically, while wasting enormous sums to multiply horrors we're already witnessing. Anyone who votes for it will bear a moral stain for the rest of their careers—and some careers may end due to voter outrage.
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Adam Isacson
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The bill's $16.2 billion to hire more agents—multiplying the frequency of raids throughout the US—would have been enough to feed 123 million people currently on the brink of famine.
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Adam Isacson
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The bill’s $15 billion for ICE’s aerial and land-border deportation machine would be enough to build 18 Empire State Buildings, adjusting for inflation.
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Adam Isacson
14 days
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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Adam Isacson
14 days
The big bill Republicans are moving through Congress is drawing outrage for its severe cuts to poorer Americans. But _it’s not all cuts_: the bill would add big spending. To multiply masked ICE raids, detention horror stories, and dangerous deportations—to unimaginable levels.
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Adam Isacson
20 days
This is a very good episode:.
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WOLA
21 days
🌈 🎙️ New Podcast Episode: LGBTQ+ Migrants in the Crosshairs. Brigitte Baltazar Lujano—Director of the LGBTQ+ Program at Al Otro Lado—joins us from Tijuana to talk about the situation for queer and trans migrants at the border. ➡️ Listen now:
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