Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎

@austinkocher
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Political & legal geographer studying the theories, laws, and institutional practices behind immigration controls. Assistant Professor at Syracuse University. Living in Baltimore. 
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A First Look at the Latest ICE Arrest Data Published by the Deportation Data Project

ICE arrest data just arrived with incredibly useful new fields, updated trends in who ICE is targeting and where, deeper understanding of enforcement system, and some quality issues.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/a-first-look-at-the-latest-ice-arrest

A First Look at the Latest ICE Arrest Data Published by the Deportation Data Project

ICE arrest data just arrived with incredibly useful new fields, updated trends in who ICE is targeting and where, deeper understanding of enforcement system, and some quality issues.

Austin Kocher

Most people don’t know that family separation is ramping up under the Trump administration, but it’s happening in new and damaging ways. Join me TODAY to discuss the latest research findings with WRC’s Dr. Zain Lakhani 4:30 east. Reg below.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f6SJt3CcSSigeOhENdLNnw

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Family Separation by Design: Understanding ICE's Systemic Failures and Building Systems for International Reunification. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When parents are deported without their children, who is responsible for bringing families back together? A new report from the Women's Refugee Commission and Physicians for Human Rights, "What About My Children: Family Separation Among Parents Deported to Honduras," documents how ICE is routinely violating its own policies designed to protect parental rights, resulting in family separations that may become long-term or permanent. Join lead author Zain Lakhani and immigration enforcement researcher Austin Kocher for a conversation about the report's findings, the on-the-ground research methodology behind it, and the enormous challenge of building cross-national systems for family reunification at a time when the US government remains uncooperative. We will discuss what it means to navigate the overlapping legal regimes of multiple countries, each with different requirements around child custody, child welfare, and family reunification, and why this work is laying the foundation for a functional international response to a growing crisis. Zain Lakhani is a researcher at the Women's Refugee Commission and former White House staffer whose work focuses on US immigration enforcement, family separation, and the rights of detained and deported parents. Austin Kocher is a Research Professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications whose work on ICE operations, detention data, and immigration enforcement is widely cited by journalists, advocates, and practitioners. He writes at austinkocher.substack.com.

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Analysis: ICE is Pushing Boundaries of Federal Procurement Rules to Fast-Track Detention Expansion

The United States federal government is the world’s largest single purchaser of goods and services.

Project Salt Box
PLEASE KNOW THIS --> The price of your ticket covers the cost of legal consultation for an undocumented student. It’s an effective, powerful, proactive way to give one young person an understanding of their options before it’s too late.

If you want to do some good for immigrant youth and have the most unique night of your life, get tickets to Freedom University's (Atlanta, GA) fundraiser with comedian and Daily Show co-host Jordan Klepper: The Jordan Klepper Can't Dance Party 🔥

https://www.axs.com/events/1351165/jordan-klepper-can-t-dance-party-tickets

Most people don’t know that family separation is ramping up under the Trump administration, but it’s happening in new and damaging ways. Join me TOMORROW to discuss the latest research findings with WRC’s Dr. Zain Lakhani Monday 4:30 east. Reg below.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f6SJt3CcSSigeOhENdLNnw

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Family Separation by Design: Understanding ICE's Systemic Failures and Building Systems for International Reunification. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When parents are deported without their children, who is responsible for bringing families back together? A new report from the Women's Refugee Commission and Physicians for Human Rights, "What About My Children: Family Separation Among Parents Deported to Honduras," documents how ICE is routinely violating its own policies designed to protect parental rights, resulting in family separations that may become long-term or permanent. Join lead author Zain Lakhani and immigration enforcement researcher Austin Kocher for a conversation about the report's findings, the on-the-ground research methodology behind it, and the enormous challenge of building cross-national systems for family reunification at a time when the US government remains uncooperative. We will discuss what it means to navigate the overlapping legal regimes of multiple countries, each with different requirements around child custody, child welfare, and family reunification, and why this work is laying the foundation for a functional international response to a growing crisis. Zain Lakhani is a researcher at the Women's Refugee Commission and former White House staffer whose work focuses on US immigration enforcement, family separation, and the rights of detained and deported parents. Austin Kocher is a Research Professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications whose work on ICE operations, detention data, and immigration enforcement is widely cited by journalists, advocates, and practitioners. He writes at austinkocher.substack.com.

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Most people don’t know that family separation is ramping up under the Trump administration, but it’s happening in new and damaging ways. Join me to discuss the latest research findings with WRC’s Dr. Zain Lakhani Monday 4:30 east. Registration below.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f6SJt3CcSSigeOhENdLNnw

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Family Separation by Design: Understanding ICE's Systemic Failures and Building Systems for International Reunification. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When parents are deported without their children, who is responsible for bringing families back together? A new report from the Women's Refugee Commission and Physicians for Human Rights, "What About My Children: Family Separation Among Parents Deported to Honduras," documents how ICE is routinely violating its own policies designed to protect parental rights, resulting in family separations that may become long-term or permanent. Join lead author Zain Lakhani and immigration enforcement researcher Austin Kocher for a conversation about the report's findings, the on-the-ground research methodology behind it, and the enormous challenge of building cross-national systems for family reunification at a time when the US government remains uncooperative. We will discuss what it means to navigate the overlapping legal regimes of multiple countries, each with different requirements around child custody, child welfare, and family reunification, and why this work is laying the foundation for a functional international response to a growing crisis. Zain Lakhani is a researcher at the Women's Refugee Commission and former White House staffer whose work focuses on US immigration enforcement, family separation, and the rights of detained and deported parents. Austin Kocher is a Research Professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications whose work on ICE operations, detention data, and immigration enforcement is widely cited by journalists, advocates, and practitioners. He writes at austinkocher.substack.com.

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The Trump administration is deporting mothers without their children bc ICE isn't giving them the ability to reunite. ICE is also holding/deporting pregnant women under dangerous conditions. Learn more in my convo with Dr. Zain Lakhani Monday. Reg below.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/event-announcement-zain-lakhani-from?utm_source=activity_item

Event Rescheduled: Zain Lakhani from the Women's Refugee Commission Explains Why ICE Is Deporting Parents Without Their Children

Register today for an in-depth discussion of new report on ICE's family separation of deported parents and what it will take to build an international family reunification system.

Austin Kocher
I have been informed by a reliable source that another person has died in ICE custody, this one in Adelanto. If true, it would be the 14th detained death this year, the 43rd under the Trump II, and the 4th at Adelanto. I'll share more info as available at austinkocher.substack.com.
Learning a lot from the students and faculty at Vanderbilt University this week and getting ready for my first Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon! #wikipedia