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The Cost of Deportations Calculator: Technical Documentation

Monique Morrissey Economic Policy Institute
The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal government plans to spend $268.9 billion to undertake mass deportations throughout the second Trump administration.

In Europe, the Age of Deportations Has Begun

Jouke Huijzer transform! europe
Heeding far-right calls for stricter migration controls will not halt the far right’s rise. The resignation of Keir Starmer, the Danish Social Democrats’ recent electoral defeat, and the Dutch Socialist Party’s string of losses all affirm this

One Year On, Los Angeles Is Still Living With the Fallout of the Raids

Elizabeth Aguilera and Ben Poston Capital & Main
New analysis and firsthand accounts reveal the toll of the crackdown on immigrant communities in L.A. County and beyond. Thousands of people detained during the height of the raids remain in immigration custody or have already been deported.

The World Cup Is Undressing the Myth of Trump’s American Homogeneity

Andrew Lawrence The Guardian
The 2026 World Cup has become a rebuke to Trump’s homogeneous vision of America, revealing a tournament – and a US team – shaped by migration and diversity. Soccer, when politics and cultural posturing are set aside, can indeed be the great unifier

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Somali Immigrants Fled Climate Change. Now They’re Facing ICE.

Elham Shirin The New Republic
Somali immigrants in the U.S. haven’t just fled violence—they’ve fled climate catastrophes that the U.S. has helped create. Missing from Trump's hate filled discourse is the pervasive role of climate change in people’s decisions to move from Somalia
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