States Without Nations

Research and commentary on state efforts to restrict the movement of people across borders, and on the alternatives.

Friday, March 20, 2026

What Crazy Fact about the Rate of Trump's Unlawful Detentions did I just Learn from CourtListener, Thanks to Dan Kowalski and the Rest of the Fabulous Attorneys and Judges Defending the Rule of Law?

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Habeas Challenges Increase by 4,119%      To date under Trump II, about 23,000 habeas motions were filed on behalf of people in ICE Custody ...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Federal District Court Swats Down Customs and Border Protection Excuse to Delay FOIA Briefing

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The Underwood Files     Insurance Executive Lauren Underwood (aka "the George Santos of Illinois")  Campaigning for Congress (201...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

ICE Releases Hundreds of its Detention Subfield Office Addresses and Phone Numbers, Following Court Order

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 ICE, We Know Where to Find You!  Release from Deportation Research Clinic, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University  C...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss Defends Free Speech, Rejects Northwestern President Michael Schill's 2024 Demand for "Mass Arrests"

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Northwestern University students and staff lock arms during a confrontation with school security officers at the scene of a pro-Palestinia...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

June 26, 2025 Expedited Removal Order to Deport California-born U.S. Citizen, Citing Removal Order Immigration Judge ... Terminated in 2004

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ICE Really is Out to Get Miguel Silvestre, a U.S. Citizen   Miguel reached out to me a couple years ago because he couldn't shake the fe...
Friday, June 13, 2025

President Cannot Call on National Guard for Disorder President Creates

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From New York Times The key statute on which the Trump administration is relying for its authority to mobilize the National Guard for purpos...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

"Everything They Did, They Did At Night": This is How Sheriffs and Federal Agents Deport U.S. Citizens

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Past as Prologue - Expect More US Citizens Deported and more cover-ups From CBP File on U.S. Citizen Miguel Silvestre, 2004 Superbowl Sunday...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Northwestern AAUP Executive Committee Calls on Northwestern to Rollback Propaganda and Support Education

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From Northwestern Email sent to Students Feb. 20, 2025 click to enlarge   NU AAUP Executive Committe Responds to Assault on Higher Educatio...
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About Me

jacqueline stevens
Professor, Political Science Department, Northwestern University. I teach political theory and write about law-breaking by ICE and the immigration courts for The Nation magazine. My book States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals was published by Columbia University Press in 2009. It explores alternatives to our current laws that base citizenship on parochial, unjust ideas about birth, and shows how these laws are connected to other archaic practices inconsistent with liberalism, including inheritance and marriage. My first book was Reproducing the State (Princeton, 1999). For contact and other information, please go to jacquelinestevens.org.
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