I wrote about the saga of Rodolfo Lozoya, a WWII vet and long-time Chicago resident who, in 1957, found himself separated from his US citizen wife and children after authorities barred him from the country b/c of his alleged membership in the Communist Party.

Thread & article ⬇️ Lozoya was a steelworker and a trade union activist who blacklisted Hollywood director Herbert Biberman almost cast as one of the lead roles in his classic film Salt of the Earth.

This week the Trump administration announced that officials apprehended 76,000 "illegal immigrants" in February, the highest monthly total in more than a decade. But this figure is purposefully misleading, which got me thinking about the politics of immigration statistics & the way federal officials manipulate them—a topic I address in my work. I gave a talk this weekend on the topic and I wanted to share some of my thoughts here.