Tanvi Misra
@tanvi.bsky.social
writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
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Tanvi Misra
@tanvi.bsky.social
· Nov 26
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...
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As we wrap up year one of Trump’s second administration, we invited @adamfederman.bsky.social, @tanvi.bsky.social, and @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social back to the Backstory to talk about how the year has gone and how they think things will develop going forward.
open.spotify.com/episode/2UOo...
open.spotify.com/episode/2UOo...
Adam Federman, Tanvi Misra, and Kathryn Joyce: Lessons from One Year of Reporting on Trump
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
As we wrap up year one of Trump’s second administration, we invited @adamfederman.bsky.social, @tanvi.bsky.social, and @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social back to the Backstory to talk about how the year has gone and how they think things will develop going forward.
open.spotify.com/episode/2UOo...
open.spotify.com/episode/2UOo...
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”Yet immigrants, of course, are not a monolith. They have taken different paths to America and had different experiences upon arrival—and they tell themselves different stories about their own luck and circumstance.” Important read/reminder 👇
New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
”Yet immigrants, of course, are not a monolith. They have taken different paths to America and had different experiences upon arrival—and they tell themselves different stories about their own luck and circumstance.” Important read/reminder 👇
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New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
I revived my dead substack and did a roundup of everything i wrote last year: all my essays and investigations and magazine pieces on immigration, the topic I've covered for a decade at this point. PLS READ & SUBSCRIBE
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
All the things I wrote
...in 2025
substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I revived my dead substack and did a roundup of everything i wrote last year: all my essays and investigations and magazine pieces on immigration, the topic I've covered for a decade at this point. PLS READ & SUBSCRIBE
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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MY LATEST @kcrw.com ORANGE COUNTY LINE: The legacy of Chicano artist Jose Lozano. Share, porfas!
The legacy of Chicano artist Jose Lozano | KCRW
The late painter's art is featured across Southern California.
www.kcrw.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
MY LATEST @kcrw.com ORANGE COUNTY LINE: The legacy of Chicano artist Jose Lozano. Share, porfas!
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I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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For years, ICE has used the latest surveillance technology to target immigrants, now it’s using this technology to target anti-ICE protesters. This is a serious threat to Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For years, ICE has used the latest surveillance technology to target immigrants, now it’s using this technology to target anti-ICE protesters. This is a serious threat to Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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(Pls delete/ swap out any other emails on file!)
Please put my new email on your press lists: reporting@tanvimisra.com.
I'm also on tanvi.misra@protonmail.com for secure tips and tanvim.05 on Signal.
(Pls delete/ swap out any other emails on file!)
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
!! Comms folks, PR ppl, press officers, public liaisons, spokespersons!!
Please put my new email on your press lists: reporting@tanvimisra.com.
I'm also on tanvi.misra@protonmail.com for secure tips and tanvim.05 on Signal.
(Pls delete/ swap out any other emails on file!)
Please put my new email on your press lists: reporting@tanvimisra.com.
I'm also on tanvi.misra@protonmail.com for secure tips and tanvim.05 on Signal.
(Pls delete/ swap out any other emails on file!)
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Read @tanvi.bsky.social on migrants who have been rendered stateless — deported by the US then exiled by the countries of their birth — and the black hole in which they find themselves nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Read @tanvi.bsky.social on migrants who have been rendered stateless — deported by the US then exiled by the countries of their birth — and the black hole in which they find themselves nymag.com/intelligence...
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I appreciate that @tanvi.bsky.social highlights a deported refugee, now stateless, who committed a crime all of us find egregious
Deportations in no way address harm or sexual violence and the immigrants' rights space needs to move away from respectability politics
nymag.com/intelligence...
Deportations in no way address harm or sexual violence and the immigrants' rights space needs to move away from respectability politics
nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I appreciate that @tanvi.bsky.social highlights a deported refugee, now stateless, who committed a crime all of us find egregious
Deportations in no way address harm or sexual violence and the immigrants' rights space needs to move away from respectability politics
nymag.com/intelligence...
Deportations in no way address harm or sexual violence and the immigrants' rights space needs to move away from respectability politics
nymag.com/intelligence...
ICYMI!!!!!!
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
ICYMI!!!!!!
I knew I’d get some of this. It IS journalism, actually, to go beyond simplistic notions of good and evil that rely on a high school idea of morality & question how systems work against people who are very sympathetic as well as those who have done grave harm, because both those people are people.
This is what passes as “journalism” these days - gnashing of teeth and rending of garments over the deportation of a child molester. He got what he deserved, and the system worked in this instance.
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I knew I’d get some of this. It IS journalism, actually, to go beyond simplistic notions of good and evil that rely on a high school idea of morality & question how systems work against people who are very sympathetic as well as those who have done grave harm, because both those people are people.
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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As many people upset with violence as the masks
Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.
Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:
Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:
ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As many people upset with violence as the masks
I got questions about how to help Laura, the mom in my @MotherJones story that came out a few weeks ago. Laura’s sister, who covers her legal fees and commissary costs, responded with the gofundme link, which I’ve included below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
They’ve won in court, but ICE is still detaining and trying to deport them
Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can't be sent home
www.motherjones.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I got questions about how to help Laura, the mom in my @MotherJones story that came out a few weeks ago. Laura’s sister, who covers her legal fees and commissary costs, responded with the gofundme link, which I’ve included below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...
He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.
Thanks, SCOTUS.
slate.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Y'all want to read some great recent stories my students wrote?
Here's a TL cleanse: www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/10/15/a...
Here's a TL cleanse: www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/10/15/a...
All Dogs Go to Heaven at the Feast of St. Francis
Thousands gathered for the annual “Blessing of the Animals.”
www.nycitynewsservice.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Y'all want to read some great recent stories my students wrote?
Here's a TL cleanse: www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/10/15/a...
Here's a TL cleanse: www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/10/15/a...
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want cake? why not try "mug of cereal." that's right, mug of cereal: Its what you have
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
want cake? why not try "mug of cereal." that's right, mug of cereal: Its what you have
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his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->
nymag.com/intelligence...
@nymag.com -->
nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?
Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.
nymag.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->
nymag.com/intelligence...
@nymag.com -->
nymag.com/intelligence...
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BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
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So glad that @tanvi.bsky.social followed up on this group of people; those who were in Border Patrol detention centers on the days Trump took office, people from countries where deportation wasn't easy for the Trump admin, who ended up dumped in Panama to send a message to other migrants.
his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->
nymag.com/intelligence...
@nymag.com -->
nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?
Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.
nymag.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
So glad that @tanvi.bsky.social followed up on this group of people; those who were in Border Patrol detention centers on the days Trump took office, people from countries where deportation wasn't easy for the Trump admin, who ended up dumped in Panama to send a message to other migrants.