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Austin Kocher, PhD Profile picture
Austin Kocher, PhD
@ackocher
I study the immigration enforcement system. Geographer. Prof. in @NewhouseSU at @SyracuseU & Fellow at @Immigration_Lab/@AU_CLALS.
Feb 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The House just passed the SAVE America Act for the third year running. It would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. At least 21 million U.S. citizens don't even have driver's licenses, let alone passports or birth certificates. (thread) Image The bill targets a problem that barely exists. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is extraordinarily rare. Meanwhile, the ID requirements would create real barriers for low-income and minority communities where these documents are harder to obtain.
Jan 5 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
ProPublica reviewed months of Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos from Portland protests. The found that Fox repeatedly aired 2020 footage and labeled it 2025. Trump watched, announced the National Guard was coming, and said the city looked like "World War II." Specifically, a Sept. 4 segment showed a Navy veteran being pepper-sprayed and struck with a baton. Fox said it was 2025. The video was posted to social media July 18, 2020. They showed a burning flag from 2020, a mile away from the 2025 protest site.
Jan 26, 2025 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
ICE has been posting daily statistics about arrests and detainers this week. The data might prove to be accurate with independent verification, but here’s why I’m skeptical. First, ice uses multiple data systems to manage its enforcement data, including a massive comprehensive warehouse of transactional data records and other cleaned up and summarized data systems that feed into pre-produced reports.
Jan 19, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
24 hours from now President Trump is set to unleash a series of aggressive executive orders targeting immigration. Here are seven things he appears set to do (or attempt to do). Reinstating Travel Bans: The administration intends to reimpose entry restrictions on several countries, reminiscent of the previous "Muslim ban," affecting individuals from specific nations.
Jul 8, 2023 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
It's time for another thread of TRAC's immigration data tools!

Are you looking for immigration data? @TRACReports is a great place to get data, but it can be confusing to navigate. Here's what we have and how to find it! 🧵.

Please share & bookmark for the good of all. @TRACReports Preliminary remarks - don't skip!

First, the data we have comes from the federal government through #FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests. This is the government's own data, not data we come up with on our own.
Jun 26, 2023 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
CBP One is the new app that asylum seekers must use at the southwest border. But how does this app work? And how should we think about CBP One?

Highlights from my article: “Glitches in the Digitization of Asylum.” 🧵

Bookmark it here (no paywall): mdpi.com/2075-4698/13/6… It is the law of the United States that migrants are allowed to seek asylum. Migrants should be able to do so at ports of entry (POEs), but when access is restricted, migrants may cross the border between POEs and request asylum from Border Patrol.

law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/…