William Lopez
@wdlopez.bsky.social
Prof UM School of Public Health | Write about immigration | Partner | Dad to 2+🐶 | He/Him 💖💜💙 | insta: @DrLopezOnImmigration
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I am starting an Immigration and Education starter pack. DM me or comment below if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/4pkTW9j
October 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am starting an Immigration and Education starter pack. DM me or comment below if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/4pkTW9j
A haunted house but it’s just congress getting along and giving people their SNAP benefits so it’s totally surprising and borderline unbelievable but not scary.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A haunted house but it’s just congress getting along and giving people their SNAP benefits so it’s totally surprising and borderline unbelievable but not scary.
What (re(re(re)))radicalized me?
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
October 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What (re(re(re)))radicalized me?
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
ICE ziptying CHILDREN.
As a researcher, I pay attention to new words and phrases US media (English and Spanish) now has to use to describe US politics: "ICE round-up," "immigration sweeps," and "narcolancha" are now regularly in circulation. Telling.
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As a researcher, I pay attention to new words and phrases US media (English and Spanish) now has to use to describe US politics: "ICE round-up," "immigration sweeps," and "narcolancha" are now regularly in circulation. Telling.
These children--like all children caught in the middle of immigration enforcement--will carry these mental scars with them forever.
Three young children fled from an ICE raid in Idaho and managed to reunite with their family.
"I didn't get caught," boy says
"I didn't get caught," boy says
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
These children--like all children caught in the middle of immigration enforcement--will carry these mental scars with them forever.
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In this op-ed, @wdlopez.bsky.social of @umich.edu says that recent mass deportations will lead to severe social and economic repercussions. He writes about the resistance efforts led by those who have supported families impacted by ICE raids.
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
Mass Deportation Has Begun, But So Has Mass Resistance
How rural communities resist ICE and support their neighbors.
time.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In this op-ed, @wdlopez.bsky.social of @umich.edu says that recent mass deportations will lead to severe social and economic repercussions. He writes about the resistance efforts led by those who have supported families impacted by ICE raids.
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...
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"From large cities like Los Angeles to small, rural towns like O’Neill, Neb., communities have come together...to resist the cruelty and chaos of mass deportation," writes William D. Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social), author of "Raiding the Heartland." @TIME. time.com/7319484/immi...
Mass Deportation Has Begun, But So Has Mass Resistance
How rural communities resist ICE and support their neighbors.
time.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"From large cities like Los Angeles to small, rural towns like O’Neill, Neb., communities have come together...to resist the cruelty and chaos of mass deportation," writes William D. Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social), author of "Raiding the Heartland." @TIME. time.com/7319484/immi...
Happy book birthday, a.k.a. publication day, to Raiding the Heartland: American Story of Deportation and Resistance!
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy book birthday, a.k.a. publication day, to Raiding the Heartland: American Story of Deportation and Resistance!
This was a fantastic interview with @motherjones.com. Thanks to Isabela for spending an hour on Zoom to ask great questions about the book and its relevance tot he Hyundai raid in Ellabell.
"Communities don’t sit around and let removal and separation happen," @wdlopez.bsky.social tells @motherjones.com.
His book "Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance" is out next week! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
His book "Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance" is out next week! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The “chaos and cruelty” of Trump’s worksite immigration raids
A scholar looked at how the enforcement tactic upends communities, leaving many feeling “like a tornado” hit their town.
www.motherjones.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This was a fantastic interview with @motherjones.com. Thanks to Isabela for spending an hour on Zoom to ask great questions about the book and its relevance tot he Hyundai raid in Ellabell.
Drove through a Saline, MI today. Every community of every size has a voice. We love to see it. #IceIsCruel #ChingaLaMigra
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Drove through a Saline, MI today. Every community of every size has a voice. We love to see it. #IceIsCruel #ChingaLaMigra
Breaking news at the CDC.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid:
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
August 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Breaking news at the CDC.
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📢Big news: Human Impact Partners is now Health in Partnership! Same mission, values, & commitments — new name & look that better reflect who we are today: grounded in relationships & building power for health equity in deep partnership with others.
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
May 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📢Big news: Human Impact Partners is now Health in Partnership! Same mission, values, & commitments — new name & look that better reflect who we are today: grounded in relationships & building power for health equity in deep partnership with others.
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...
What’s it like to be in the National Guard right now?
August 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
What’s it like to be in the National Guard right now?
Remember, without due process, saying Abrego Garcia is a gang member is just an opinion. #abregogarcia
August 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Remember, without due process, saying Abrego Garcia is a gang member is just an opinion. #abregogarcia
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It's here! It's hard to relay the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time.
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
August 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It's here! It's hard to relay the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time.
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
August 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It's here! It's hard to relay the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time.
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )
Be angry any time a US citizen with no criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant.
AND be angry any time an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant.
AND be angry any time an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant.
July 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Be angry any time a US citizen with no criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant.
AND be angry any time an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant.
AND be angry any time an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant.
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Lucky enough to be in community with wonderful people like @wdlopez.bsky.social. His new book is a must read without question!
William Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social)'s "prescient" forthcoming book on the cruel logic of ICE workplace raids gets a @publisherswkly.bsky.social star. www.publishersweekly.com/9781421453705
Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance by William D Lopez
Until recently, the southern U.S. border dominated most discussions of immigration, but public health scholar Lopez (Separated) ...
www.publishersweekly.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Lucky enough to be in community with wonderful people like @wdlopez.bsky.social. His new book is a must read without question!
DHS actively expelling people from a place they belong.
July 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
DHS actively expelling people from a place they belong.
Thanks so much for the support, @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social, and for your continued and excellent coverage of the ICE protests in and around LA.
Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance by my friend @wdlopez.bsky.social is a critically important book that could not be more timely. preorder now: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Raiding the Heartland
An American Story of Deportation and Resistance
www.press.jhu.edu
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thanks so much for the support, @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social, and for your continued and excellent coverage of the ICE protests in and around LA.
Of course the right is locked in on the Epstein files.
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
July 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Of course the right is locked in on the Epstein files.
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests.
And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share?
This one’s not going away
July 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Some recent #deportation -related comics. #ArtIsActivism
July 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some recent #deportation -related comics. #ArtIsActivism