MER Roundtable: Immigration Under Fascism

Mutual Exchange Radio

Zachary Woodman, Alex McHugh, and Nathan Goodman join Cory Massimino for a panel on Trump’s authoritarian actions on immigration, the history of immigration control and regulation, and what you can do to resist the administration’s authoritarian xenophobia.

Show notes and Sources:

Zachary Woodman’s Segment on the Trump Administration’s Actions on Immigration So Far

• Trump’s Executive Order on the Alien Enemies Act
• Venezuelan Couple in Virginia Case Thrown out of Civil Court
• ICE disappears 48 Undocumented Migrants
• DC Circuit Court Judge: Nazis got more Due Process under Alien Enemies Act
• Legal History of Migrant’s Constitutional Rights
• Migrants Deported for Non-Gang-Related Tattoos
• 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Have No Criminal Record
• Trump’s Appeal up to the Supreme Court, Supreme Court’s Rulings on the matter So Far
• Trump Defying Court Orders
• Mike Johnson Floats Dissolving District Courts that Rule Against Trump on Administration
• House passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions
• MAGA Supporters Send Death Threats to Judges
• Trump Administration’s Letter Intimidating Northwestern Law Clinic
• The Trump Administration’s Populist Arguments in Courts
• Thom Homan: “What was Laken Riley’s Due Process?”
• Trump Admin Executive Order Revoking Citizenship for Thousands of Migrants
• Trump Administration Pausing Green Card Applications
• Filipino Woman from Washington Disappeared by Border Patrol
• Canadian Woman Held in Custody by CBP
• Canada, Germany, UK Issuing Travel Warnings against United States
• Legal Migrant from Tampa Being Extradited to El Salvador
• Columbia Student Hunted by ICE for Her Palestinian Disagreement
• Tufts Student Abducted by Unmarked Immigration Officials
• Trump Admin Revokes Legal Status for Hundreds of Student Visa Holders
• Three Deaths in ICE Custody at Krome Detention Center in Miami
• Texas Migrants Being Deported to Guantanamo Bay
• Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera’s Legal Deposition
• Kristi Noem’s Propaganda Video in El Salvador, which Violates National Law
• Opening of Migrant Detention Center in Michigan
• CBP’s 100-Mile Border Zone
• ICE Targeting US Citizens
• Mahmoud Khalil’s Public Statement of His Detention
• Louisiana Judge Rules Against Mouhamad Khalil, Citing Foreign Policy Authority
• Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order and Why it’s Unconstitutional

Nathan’s Segment on the History of US Border Policy:

• Coyne and Hall: Tyranny Comes Home
• Border Militarization and Domestic Institutions
• Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms
• Drones on the Border: Efficacy and Privacy Implications
• Reece Jones, Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States
• US Citizens Deported on Accident Pre-Trump
• Kenyon Zimmer: Faces of the First Red Scare: Documenting Red Scare Deportees

Alex McHugh’s Segment on Resisting ICE:

• Tool to Find ICE Contractors
• Meet the ICE Contractors
• We Have Rights: Document and Witness ICE/CBP Abuse of Power
• Borderlands Relief Collective
• Border Kindness
• Al Otro Lado
• Woomera
• Quaker Meeting Raided in UK
• Nathan Goodman, et al: Collective Action in the Sanctuary Movement: Polycentric Protection of Central American Asylum Seekers
• Immigrant Legal Justice Center-Know Your Rights
• National Immigrant Justice Center-Know Your Rights
• ACLU-Know Your Rights, Immigrant Rights