Sarah Sherman-Stokes
@sshermanstokes.bsky.social
clinical associate professor, immigrants' rights clinic at Boston University School of Law. posting here about immigration, detention & abolition. mom, baker, runner. board member @detentionwatch.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
Grateful to partner with @islandtaxprof.bsky.social on this important story about asylum, race and yes, tax law. Hope you'll have a read!
Such a pleasure to team up with my #BULaw colleague @sshermanstokes.bsky.social Sherman-Stokes to tell this important story of race, immigration, and tax law.
Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order - Truthdig
How an obscure 20th-century tax rule ensured that newly decolonized nations would never fully escape the orbit of their colonizers.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Grateful to partner with @islandtaxprof.bsky.social on this important story about asylum, race and yes, tax law. Hope you'll have a read!
In awe of our client, Leqaa, and the incredible legal team of which I'm a small part, @muslimadvocates.bsky.social, @txcivilrights.bsky.social, CUNY-CLEAR. Thanks to @theintercept.com for covering the government's cruel, racist and unrelenting targeting of Leqaa. #FreeLeqaa
To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
interc.pt
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In awe of our client, Leqaa, and the incredible legal team of which I'm a small part, @muslimadvocates.bsky.social, @txcivilrights.bsky.social, CUNY-CLEAR. Thanks to @theintercept.com for covering the government's cruel, racist and unrelenting targeting of Leqaa. #FreeLeqaa
Incredible advocacy by @veenadubal.bsky.social & others. What victory. Not only has this case exposed the monstrous, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic & unconstitutional work of this Admin, but the decision couldn't be more clear: noncitizens have the same free speech rights as everyone else 🔥🙌
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Incredible advocacy by @veenadubal.bsky.social & others. What victory. Not only has this case exposed the monstrous, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic & unconstitutional work of this Admin, but the decision couldn't be more clear: noncitizens have the same free speech rights as everyone else 🔥🙌
Even in these truly bonkers times, law still matters. And Trop v. Dulles is still good law.
TL;DR: you cannot denaturalize someone as punishment for a crime.
This "agreement" between #Trump and #Bukele flies in the face of US Constitutional Law & Int'l Law.
www.oyez.org/cases/1956/70
TL;DR: you cannot denaturalize someone as punishment for a crime.
This "agreement" between #Trump and #Bukele flies in the face of US Constitutional Law & Int'l Law.
www.oyez.org/cases/1956/70
February 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Even in these truly bonkers times, law still matters. And Trop v. Dulles is still good law.
TL;DR: you cannot denaturalize someone as punishment for a crime.
This "agreement" between #Trump and #Bukele flies in the face of US Constitutional Law & Int'l Law.
www.oyez.org/cases/1956/70
TL;DR: you cannot denaturalize someone as punishment for a crime.
This "agreement" between #Trump and #Bukele flies in the face of US Constitutional Law & Int'l Law.
www.oyez.org/cases/1956/70
I'm an #asylum lawyer - part of my job includes protecting my clients from being sent back to El Salvador bc of the torture, inhumane conditions & violent repression they face there under Bukele. Jails in El Salvador are notorious for torture & human rights abuses. A thread 🧵 1/
El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, including imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says
El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, as well as imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal | CNN
El Salvador has agreed to receive deportees from the United States of any nationality, including violent criminals who are US citizens currently imprisoned, in an unprecedented deal that has alarmed c...
www.cnn.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I'm an #asylum lawyer - part of my job includes protecting my clients from being sent back to El Salvador bc of the torture, inhumane conditions & violent repression they face there under Bukele. Jails in El Salvador are notorious for torture & human rights abuses. A thread 🧵 1/
The number of #immigration related announcements, EOs & memos is dizzying. One thing that has gotten less attn are the policy memos being released by DOJ/EOIR (i.e. the immigration court). Here's a thread on one that encourages the use of the word "Al*en", & why it matters. 1/
February 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The number of #immigration related announcements, EOs & memos is dizzying. One thing that has gotten less attn are the policy memos being released by DOJ/EOIR (i.e. the immigration court). Here's a thread on one that encourages the use of the word "Al*en", & why it matters. 1/
Yesterday the Senate voted to begin debate on the Laken-Riley Act. This bill will criminalize, indefinitely detain & deport even more noncitizens. It also further lays the groundwork for Trump's mass deportation agenda. Please call your senators now and urge them to vote NO on this. Here's why 🧵 1/
January 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yesterday the Senate voted to begin debate on the Laken-Riley Act. This bill will criminalize, indefinitely detain & deport even more noncitizens. It also further lays the groundwork for Trump's mass deportation agenda. Please call your senators now and urge them to vote NO on this. Here's why 🧵 1/
this piece is stunning for its inaccuracy, its cruelty and the authors' lack of self-reflection. leaning hard right on #immigration has destroyed families, traumatized entire communities, & undoubtedly cost people their lives. it hasn't won dems any recent elections, either.
"Immigration has become a losing issue for Democrats over the past decade because elected leaders have followed progressive advocates to the left, beyond the political space available to them," Cecilia Muñoz and Frank Sharry write:
How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration
The party once championed an approach popular with voters and politicians alike. Why give up on it?
www.theatlantic.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:58 AM
this piece is stunning for its inaccuracy, its cruelty and the authors' lack of self-reflection. leaning hard right on #immigration has destroyed families, traumatized entire communities, & undoubtedly cost people their lives. it hasn't won dems any recent elections, either.
Powerful and devastating piece by my impressive colleague, @azizaahmed.bsky.social.
Joanna Wuest and I thinking through how states are creating risk rather than minimizing them with bans on gender affirming care and abortion.
Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm | The Nation
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Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm | The Nation
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Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm
The Supreme Court will increase risks by upholding state bans on gender-affirming care, contrary to what conservative lawmakers argue.
www.thenation.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Powerful and devastating piece by my impressive colleague, @azizaahmed.bsky.social.
@mayorwu.boston.gov @govhealey.bsky.social My wonderful colleague Leah Hastings and I put together 4 concrete ways you can protect MA residents from ICE enforcement. Thanks @bostonglobe.com for publishing 👇
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How Massachusetts can limit ICE enforcement - The Boston Globe
Four recommendations that will help protect migrants.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:33 PM
@mayorwu.boston.gov @govhealey.bsky.social My wonderful colleague Leah Hastings and I put together 4 concrete ways you can protect MA residents from ICE enforcement. Thanks @bostonglobe.com for publishing 👇
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/02/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/02/o...
Thanks @bostonglobe.com for your reporting & glad to be quoted alongside the inimitable Heather Yountz. Plymouth Jail continues to be rewarded for it's flagrant violations of bare minimum detention standards.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/20/m...
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Some sheriffs scoffed at immigration enforcement. Plymouth extended its agreement with ICE. - The Boston Globe
The new contract will run through September 2029, according to a copy of the agreement between Plymouth Sheriff Joseph McDonald and ICE, which pays the sheriff’s office to hold people in a portion of ...
www.bostonglobe.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Thanks @bostonglobe.com for your reporting & glad to be quoted alongside the inimitable Heather Yountz. Plymouth Jail continues to be rewarded for it's flagrant violations of bare minimum detention standards.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/20/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/20/m...
Reposted by Sarah Sherman-Stokes
ICE Can Already Sidestep Sanctuary City Laws Through Data-Sharing Fusion Centers.
www.wired.com/story/ice-sa...
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ICE Can Already Sidestep Sanctuary City Laws Through Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with I...
www.wired.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:39 PM
ICE Can Already Sidestep Sanctuary City Laws Through Data-Sharing Fusion Centers.
www.wired.com/story/ice-sa...
www.wired.com/story/ice-sa...
Reposted by Sarah Sherman-Stokes
Errol Morris’ SEPARATED is both a roadmap to what the incoming Trump administration might do, but also how people may push back against, as @adamserwer.bsky.social coined, cruelty being the point. The film is in theaters now. MSNBC December 7.
November 19, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Errol Morris’ SEPARATED is both a roadmap to what the incoming Trump administration might do, but also how people may push back against, as @adamserwer.bsky.social coined, cruelty being the point. The film is in theaters now. MSNBC December 7.
Reposted by Sarah Sherman-Stokes
As Private Prison Stocks Soar, Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Fight Trump's Mass Deportation Plans
As Private Prison Stocks Soar, Activists Fight Trump’s Deportation Plans
Incoming President Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants when he starts his term has sent private prison stocks soaring. Immigrant rights advocates, including our guest, the…
www.democracynow.org
November 12, 2024 at 7:06 PM
As Private Prison Stocks Soar, Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Fight Trump's Mass Deportation Plans