Mai Nguyen Do • Đỗ Nguyên Mai
@donguyenmai.bsky.social
Teacher, poet, political scientist. PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Studying immigration enforcement, identity, inequality. Research & Policy Manager at the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice
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It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.
Prison Pay and Commissary Prices: Too Little for Too Much
It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.
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Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.
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In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️
Sharing an op-ed I penned about the importance of SNAP--not just for the program's beneficiaries, but for all us. In the meantime, we're putting a lot of pressure on local food pantries--and they will certainly need our support. (TLDR: give money to your local orgs)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into aid.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️
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In case you missed it:
There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
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There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In case you missed it:
There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
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Working paper alert 📢
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest
<p><span>Protests constitute a primary way that members of the public express their preferences and seek to change public policy. Focusing on policy protests in
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November 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Working paper alert 📢
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
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We are proud to announce we have hired @thefreeradical.org and @davidforbes.bsky.social as our first staff journalists! As a worker-run newsroom, we set wages collectively based on our funds.
Currently, we have about six months of funding. Help us plan our future with a recurring donation today!
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November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We are proud to announce we have hired @thefreeradical.org and @davidforbes.bsky.social as our first staff journalists! As a worker-run newsroom, we set wages collectively based on our funds.
Currently, we have about six months of funding. Help us plan our future with a recurring donation today!
Currently, we have about six months of funding. Help us plan our future with a recurring donation today!
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Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department.
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
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LISTEN: California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.
PODCAST: Trump’s cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard
California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
LISTEN: California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.
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most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing
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I got my author copies!!!!! Let the Moon Wobble is officially out in less than a month! You can pre-order signed & personalized copies from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/ang... 🌝
October 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I got my author copies!!!!! Let the Moon Wobble is officially out in less than a month! You can pre-order signed & personalized copies from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/ang... 🌝
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If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!  
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!  
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ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap40
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap40
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap40
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap40
At @priec.bsky.social this morning — @fulyafelicity.bsky.social presenting on the ways that authoritarian regimes engage their diasporas and how those emigrants respond (or don’t!)
October 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
At @priec.bsky.social this morning — @fulyafelicity.bsky.social presenting on the ways that authoritarian regimes engage their diasporas and how those emigrants respond (or don’t!)
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New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People
New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...
New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...
New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes Deportation Data Project Data Accessible to More People
New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes ICE arrest data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People
New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...
New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...
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Most of the sheriffs signing up are in red states or from Republican-led areas of blue states, like Nassau County in New York.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers
Jails play a growing role in immigrant detention, housing thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime.
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Most of the sheriffs signing up are in red states or from Republican-led areas of blue states, like Nassau County in New York.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.
But...
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But...
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New from me: At the anti-ICE demonstrations in June, CHP and LASD fired 9,600 projectiles and chemical munitions at protesters. Tear gas, flash bangs, rubber bullets, and more! Read moreL
www.joeyscott.xyz/anti-ice-dem...
www.joeyscott.xyz/anti-ice-dem...
September 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
New from me: At the anti-ICE demonstrations in June, CHP and LASD fired 9,600 projectiles and chemical munitions at protesters. Tear gas, flash bangs, rubber bullets, and more! Read moreL
www.joeyscott.xyz/anti-ice-dem...
www.joeyscott.xyz/anti-ice-dem...
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And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication.
Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at
splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!
Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at
splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!
September 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication.
Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at
splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!
Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at
splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!
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In most countries, people who want to help refugees can't do so legally.
My new piece explores how the idea of private sponsorship empowers citizens to channel their humanitarian motivations, and why that can make refugee admissions more sustainable.
alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/why-dont-y...
My new piece explores how the idea of private sponsorship empowers citizens to channel their humanitarian motivations, and why that can make refugee admissions more sustainable.
alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/why-dont-y...
September 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In most countries, people who want to help refugees can't do so legally.
My new piece explores how the idea of private sponsorship empowers citizens to channel their humanitarian motivations, and why that can make refugee admissions more sustainable.
alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/why-dont-y...
My new piece explores how the idea of private sponsorship empowers citizens to channel their humanitarian motivations, and why that can make refugee admissions more sustainable.
alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/why-dont-y...
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please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals
August 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals
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So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...
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As feds ramp up immigration enforcement in D.C., police allow more cooperation via @washingtonpost.com
As feds ramp up immigration enforcement in D.C., police allow more cooperation
D.C.’s police chief issues a policy allowing officers to assist in federal immigration enforcement, while the Trump administration announces more than two dozen immigration arrests.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
As feds ramp up immigration enforcement in D.C., police allow more cooperation via @washingtonpost.com
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Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.
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California Highway Patrol also has access to Flock license plate readers outside Home Depot and Lowes.
August 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
California Highway Patrol also has access to Flock license plate readers outside Home Depot and Lowes.
We’ve also seen non-US cars and cars w/ dealership frames (e.g. a Subaru; a Ford Expedition with a local dealership frame) used by ICE/BP. Someone who knows more than me about this please help me understand — are these all just rentals? Or deliberately procured to obscure that it’s DHS on the road?
ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck.
Wonder where they got the idea😬
Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?
Wonder where they got the idea😬
Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?
August 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We’ve also seen non-US cars and cars w/ dealership frames (e.g. a Subaru; a Ford Expedition with a local dealership frame) used by ICE/BP. Someone who knows more than me about this please help me understand — are these all just rentals? Or deliberately procured to obscure that it’s DHS on the road?