Sam Chambers
Critical Geography / Border Studies / Spatiotemporal Analysis / Biometeorology / Public Health / Landscape Ecology
- Reposted by Sam ChambersLabour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersI know the govt is in meltdown again… but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model & I explain what to do about it
- Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
- “Operating separately from the apparatus of federal border enforcement, local medicolegal officials can make a case that these deaths are definitionally—following official guidance for state death forms—Homicides.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Sam ChambersOfficial U.S. military film footage shows ace of spades “death cards” being placed in the mouths of dead Vietnamese people in South Vietnam’s Quảng Ngãi province.
- During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops regularly adorned Vietnamese corpses with “death cards” — either an ace of spades or a custom-printed business card claiming credit for their kills. Now, ICE is using them. theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...
- Reposted by Sam ChambersMore than 80% of flying fox colony wiped out as January heatwaves kill thousands of bats
- Reposted by Sam ChambersSeems the kangaroo immigration courts weren't kangaroo enough already. Looks like they've received their marching orders to just assign everyone to a pro forma removal order party.
- ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public www.kvue.com/article/news...
- Reposted by Sam ChambersMost of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
- Reposted by Sam ChambersSome great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.
- Reposted by Sam ChambersJoin us Monday Feb 23 for an online discussion of Intersections in Indigenous and Immigration Histories. 4-5:15pm Central. More info and registration at z.umn.edu/IHRCIntersections @iehs.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersMissed this last week. Great data journalism www.startribune.com/how-immigrat...
- Reposted by Sam Chambersbasically yglesias, jain, jentleson, WelcomePAC donors etc all base their prescriptions for Dems on a statistical model that nobody can replicate, and refuse to acknowledge (a) that uncertainty dwarfs the detectable effect of moderation & (b) that the last year has proved their views wrong!!
- Reposted by Sam ChambersThey just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
- "Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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- Reposted by Sam Chambersas someone who worked in rural health policy, this is not a real thing. this is actually called giving up on rural america after your party broke everything and can’t put it back together. perfect time to exploit people with scams
- Relatable
- “Statistically speaking, ‘worst of the worst’ seems to describe CBP and the Border Patrol as law-enforcement agencies better than it does the people they're rounding up.”
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersThe Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about putting seven bullet holes in her in text messages is a 23-year-veteran of Border Patrol. Before Maine, Charles Exum was stationed at Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he won a nationwide police shooting contest.
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersHere's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.
- Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersBorders also keep you in
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersGeorgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersNEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- DHS has purchased land and a 418,400 square-foot warehouse for an ICE detention center in Surprise, Arizona near Phoenix www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
- Smart phone cameras are being used to track protesters and observers. Mandatory body cams would amount to dollars for contractors and a wearable surveillance camera for each and every agent.
- Reposted by Sam ChambersTucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.” Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world" Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
- Reposted by Sam ChambersVideo shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersWhen it comes to the Border Patrol, Border Chronicle cofounder, Todd Miller, literally wrote the book. "Border Patrol Nation" back in 2014. He predicted much of this. And his piece today highlights what the media and others are missing now. It's a must read🦂
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- Reposted by Sam Chambers"We are exempted from the Fourth Amendment" — CBP official, 2018. For decades, Border Patrol operated with impunity in the borderlands. Now they're 300 miles inland in Minneapolis & Chicago. The whole country has become the border. #Immigration #BorderMilitarization Read full story🦂🔗:
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- Reposted by Sam ChambersTrump's immigration raids bring decades of Border Patrol violence from the borderlands into U.S. cities. Todd Miller for @democracynow.org: "the border is the entire country." With $33.5B in ICE/CBP budgets, this expanding crackdown comes with built-in impunity. Full interview🔗:
- ICE ramping up activity in Tucson, Pima County attorney says www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
- Reposted by Sam Chambers1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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- Spain approves decree to regularise half a million undocumented migrants www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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