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bsky: @adamisacson.com masto: @[email protected] Defense, security, borders, and migration at @WOLA_org. Positions are not necessarily WOLA's consensus view.

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Adam Isacson
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Sharp drop in Darién Gap migration. Left: In January 2024, the government of #Colombia detected 1,072 people per day departing on boats to migrate through the Darién Gap. Right: On January 1-15, 2025, it was just 93 people per day. Source:
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Adam Isacson
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4. Will US troops at the border be authorized to use force against civilians on US soil, in a way that has hardly ever happened in modern US history? (The "several times" link points to this September WOLA report:
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Houston Chronicle reported yesterday, "It would amount to a more than twofold increase from the $16.9 billion currently budgeted each year for both the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
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@ackocher I wonder if this is related:
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Adam Isacson
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"I wonder how many parents will be separated from their US citizen kids so the mayor can avoid prosecution for sleazy graft"… is the kind of sentence one says when corruption in one's country is approaching Noriega / Somoza levels. Text from
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Adam Isacson
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RT @thcartwright: Two Conviasa (State airline of Venezuela) are now at Ft Bliss after arriving via Cancun. This airline was sanctioned in t…
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Adam Isacson
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Take a moment today and sit with the fact that 48% of our fellow Americans favor taking _any_ category of people and "establishing large detention centers, where people would be sent and held." Source:
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Adam Isacson
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Today marks a full year since Venezuela's regime detained our friend and colleague Rocío San Miguel, an expert on security and civil-military relations. She is in the feared Helicoide prison in Caracas. She has a fracture in her right shoulder and needs surgery. Free her now.
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Rocío San Miguel es una defensora de DDHH, profesora, madre española-venezolana que cumple 1 año encarcelada en El Helicoide, Venezuela, sin respeto al debido proceso. Tiene una fractura en su hombro derecho y necesita operarse en libertad. Exigimos #MedidaHumanitariaParaRocío Rocío no puede ser sometida a una intervención por quienes demoraron 4 meses en diagnosticarla; en reclusión no hay condiciones para el postoperatorio ni una rehabilitación digna. Ella tiene derecho a sus médicos de su confianza, no a un sistema que le niega una atención efectiva y oportuna. Rocío no puede ser sometida a cirugía en un centro con antecedentes de tortura y sin garantías para su integridad física. Rocío es inocente, víctima de un caso sin debido proceso: La defensora fue acusada por el Ministerio Público sin derecho a designar sus abogados de confianza. Rocío fue víctima de desaparición forzada (por más de 3 días) desde el viernes 9 de febrero, cuando se disponía a viajar con su hija Miranda; detenida “oficialmente” desde la noche del lunes 12 de febrero, cuando fue presentada en el Tribunal 2.º Contra Terrorismo en Caracas, sin haber designado a sus abogados de confianza. Hoy el Gobierno de Maduro la acusa de “Terrorismo” y “Traición a la patria” por su trabajo como defensora frente a su organización Control Ciudadano (@ovesede), donde Rocío documentaba, investigaba e informaba sobre defensa, soberanía nacional y temas militares. 5 de sus familiares también fueron desaparecidos y detenidos: Miranda San Miguel, hija; Miguel San Miguel, hermano; Alberto San Miguel, hermano; Víctor Díaz, padre de Miranda; Alejandro González, exesposo (quien permanece detenido) Solicitamos al gobierno venezolano que otorgue una medida humanitaria y libertad a Rocío que le permita ser atendida por médicos de su confianza y ser operada en libertad. Además del respeto al debido proceso. @MinpublicoVEN @CancilleriaVE Solicitamos al Reino de España que actúe para garantizar la integridad de su ciudadana. @AlvaroAlbacete_ @EmbEspVenezuela @UEenVenezuela @jmalbares Exigimos libertad plena e inmediata para nuestra colega Rocío San Miguel.
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Adam Isacson
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@MarkSKrikorian "The Goal is Zero Highway Fatalities," Say Advocates of 10 MPH Speed Limits
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Adam Isacson
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At the US-Mexico border: - 16,500 Border Patrol agents - 4,500 Texas National Guard - 3,600 active-duty military (soon) - 2,200 federalized Nat'l Guard That’s ~26,800 soldiers and law enf agents. For <30,000 migrant apprehensions. Just 1.1 migrants per soldier/agent per month.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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New reporting: U.S. Border Patrol recorded nearly 30,000 apprehensions of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in January, the lowest level since May 2020, according to unpublished government data. Illegal border crossings are nearing a 5-year low.
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Adam Isacson
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Deported into #Mexico between January 20 (Trump's inauguration) and February 6, 18 days: 10,964 people: 8,425 Mexican citizens, 2,539 other nationalities. Source is Mexico's president at her morning news conference:
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Adam Isacson
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In 2022 there were 16,654 Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border. But the agency has stopped publishing that information.
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Adam Isacson
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Here (en español) is an interview with @LuzMelyReyes of the independent Venezuelan media outlet @EfectoCocuyo about the Trump administration’s ongoing anti-immigration blitzkrieg—and the outlines of what a better policy would look like.
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Adam Isacson
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From this week's @WOLA_org #Border Update, here is how many military and National Guard personnel #Mexico has devoted to what it calls its “Migration Plan at the Northern and Southern Borders.” Read a lot more here:
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