Hannah Postel
@hpostel.bsky.social
Migration policy past & present. Public policy prof @dukesanford.bsky.social.
Previously: Stanford, Princeton, CGD, & Middlebury.
Spice fanatic 🌶️ cat mom 😻 she/her.
www.hannahpostel.com
Previously: Stanford, Princeton, CGD, & Middlebury.
Spice fanatic 🌶️ cat mom 😻 she/her.
www.hannahpostel.com
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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"You Have Arrived in Hell": New Evidence Confirms Torture of Deported Venezuelans in El Salvador. New report confirms my warnings in March: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were tortured. Half had no criminal record. Many were asylum seekers.
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"You Have Arrived in Hell": New Evidence Confirms Torture of Deported Venezuelans in El Salvador
A new HRW report confirms what I warned about in March: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were systematically tortured. Half had no criminal record. Many were asylum seekers. We paid for this.
austinkocher.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"You Have Arrived in Hell": New Evidence Confirms Torture of Deported Venezuelans in El Salvador. New report confirms my warnings in March: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were tortured. Half had no criminal record. Many were asylum seekers.
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Federal Border Patrol agents are expected to expand their operations in North Carolina on Tuesday to include Raleigh, the state capital, local officials said. It's the latest escalation of President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, which has targeted Democratic-run cities.
Border Patrol Expands North Carolina Operations to More Liberal Cities
Agents are expected to be active in the Raleigh area on Tuesday, though the scope of the immigration crackdown in the state’s Research Triangle region was not immediately clear.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Federal Border Patrol agents are expected to expand their operations in North Carolina on Tuesday to include Raleigh, the state capital, local officials said. It's the latest escalation of President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, which has targeted Democratic-run cities.
When you finally get to meet your collaborator IRL @andreavelasquez.bsky.social 🫶
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
When you finally get to meet your collaborator IRL @andreavelasquez.bsky.social 🫶
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For decades, the United States tried to push undocumented people to self-deport. Success has often depended on coercion. I wrote a short history of the long shadow of self-deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Trump Was Not the Only President Who Tried to Force Migrants to Leave
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For decades, the United States tried to push undocumented people to self-deport. Success has often depended on coercion. I wrote a short history of the long shadow of self-deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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"Trump’s own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks ‘supply shock-induced food shortages’ and higher prices"
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Trump's own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks 'supply shock-induced food shortages' and higher prices | Fortune
The Labor Department's filing also admitted that Americans are not willing to replace undocumented farmworkers.
fortune.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Trump’s own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks ‘supply shock-induced food shortages’ and higher prices"
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Thrilled to get my hands on @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social's incredible new book.
Beth is not only a brilliant scholar but also a ridiculously evocative writer and one of the most thoughtful humans I know.
Also understanding how state and local govs regulated migrant lives is kind of important 🤷♀️
Beth is not only a brilliant scholar but also a ridiculously evocative writer and one of the most thoughtful humans I know.
Also understanding how state and local govs regulated migrant lives is kind of important 🤷♀️
October 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thrilled to get my hands on @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social's incredible new book.
Beth is not only a brilliant scholar but also a ridiculously evocative writer and one of the most thoughtful humans I know.
Also understanding how state and local govs regulated migrant lives is kind of important 🤷♀️
Beth is not only a brilliant scholar but also a ridiculously evocative writer and one of the most thoughtful humans I know.
Also understanding how state and local govs regulated migrant lives is kind of important 🤷♀️
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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.
austinkocher.substack.com
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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A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
The Ritual of Civic Apology
More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
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Trump had promised to focus on rounding up immigrants with criminal records during his 2024 election campaign. Government data shows that actual ICE arrests skew heavily towards immigrants without criminal convictions.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Trump had promised to focus on rounding up immigrants with criminal records during his 2024 election campaign. Government data shows that actual ICE arrests skew heavily towards immigrants without criminal convictions.
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A new rule-based linking method for historical Census records based on extra information, offering higher match rates and accuracy than earlier algorithms, from Abramitzky, Platt Boustan, Brookes Gray, Eriksson, Pérez, @hpostel.bsky.social, Rashid, and Simon https://www.nber.org/papers/w33999
July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A new rule-based linking method for historical Census records based on extra information, offering higher match rates and accuracy than earlier algorithms, from Abramitzky, Platt Boustan, Brookes Gray, Eriksson, Pérez, @hpostel.bsky.social, Rashid, and Simon https://www.nber.org/papers/w33999
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Reading over the text, one thing sticks out immediately: it is incredibly racist toward Haitians in particular. Quoting directy: "Additionally, hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian aliens flooded into the United States during the Biden Administration. This influx harms American communities..."
NEW: Here is the travel ban. We're doing a full analysis now, but some quick takeaways:
- All visas banned for 12 countries, and all immigrant visas and all B1/B2, F, M, and J visas for 7 others.
- Does not apply to anyone with a current valid visa already.
- Exempts immediate relatives.
- All visas banned for 12 countries, and all immigrant visas and all B1/B2, F, M, and J visas for 7 others.
- Does not apply to anyone with a current valid visa already.
- Exempts immediate relatives.
June 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Reading over the text, one thing sticks out immediately: it is incredibly racist toward Haitians in particular. Quoting directy: "Additionally, hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian aliens flooded into the United States during the Biden Administration. This influx harms American communities..."
NEW: Here is the travel ban. We're doing a full analysis now, but some quick takeaways:
- All visas banned for 12 countries, and all immigrant visas and all B1/B2, F, M, and J visas for 7 others.
- Does not apply to anyone with a current valid visa already.
- Exempts immediate relatives.
- All visas banned for 12 countries, and all immigrant visas and all B1/B2, F, M, and J visas for 7 others.
- Does not apply to anyone with a current valid visa already.
- Exempts immediate relatives.
Restricting The Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION During my first Administration, I restricted the entry of foreign nationals into the
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June 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reading over the text, one thing sticks out immediately: it is incredibly racist toward Haitians in particular. Quoting directy: "Additionally, hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian aliens flooded into the United States during the Biden Administration. This influx harms American communities..."
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🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin:
- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin:
- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
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Yesterday we hosted Hannah Postel @hpostel.bsky.social (Duke) for our junior workshop—thank you for visiting us!
She presented “Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage” (with Abramitzky, Boustan & Eriksson), sparking a rich discussion on historical data and migration!
She presented “Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage” (with Abramitzky, Boustan & Eriksson), sparking a rich discussion on historical data and migration!
April 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Yesterday we hosted Hannah Postel @hpostel.bsky.social (Duke) for our junior workshop—thank you for visiting us!
She presented “Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage” (with Abramitzky, Boustan & Eriksson), sparking a rich discussion on historical data and migration!
She presented “Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage” (with Abramitzky, Boustan & Eriksson), sparking a rich discussion on historical data and migration!
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America has a complex history on migration and the role immigrants play in economic development. In the Sanford School’s Policy 360 podcast, @hpostel.bsky.social discusses the cycles of migrations, deportations and legal restrictions that mark that history.
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Immigrants Built America, Can We Keep Building Without Them? | DUPRI
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April 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
America has a complex history on migration and the role immigrants play in economic development. In the Sanford School’s Policy 360 podcast, @hpostel.bsky.social discusses the cycles of migrations, deportations and legal restrictions that mark that history.
dupri.duke.edu/news-events/...
dupri.duke.edu/news-events/...
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Key reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social:
Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals.
So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals.
So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
www.theatlantic.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Key reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social:
Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals.
So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals.
So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
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Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
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April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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I think the US public has refused to understand what havoc the US has created around the world in pursuit of its own power, or considered how this might shape global migration, and an obtuse insistence on US innocence fuels further violence here and abroad.
WHOA. Trump will strip Temporary Protected Status from thousands of AFGHANS, at a time when the Taliban is fully in control of the country and carrying out total oppression.
If any country deservers TPS, it's obviously Afghanistan! We're going to send women back there to be treated as property?
If any country deservers TPS, it's obviously Afghanistan! We're going to send women back there to be treated as property?
Scoop: Trump Will End Temporary Protections for Afghans and Cameroonians
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
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April 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I think the US public has refused to understand what havoc the US has created around the world in pursuit of its own power, or considered how this might shape global migration, and an obtuse insistence on US innocence fuels further violence here and abroad.
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Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.