Michael Kagan In The News

Las Vegas Sun
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been consistently highlighting arrests on its social media accounts under President Donald Trump’s second administration, sometimes with an accompanying list of crimes and a photo of a person who committed them.
The Dallas Morning News
Jacob "Yaa'kub" Ira Vijandre came to the U.S. at age 14 with his father, who had a work visa for a job as an aircraft mechanic. He later obtained legal residency status through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and has lived in North Texas since 2022. The life he has built in Dallas is now in jeopardy, his lawyers said, because he exercised his First Amendment right to free speech.
The Dallas Morning News
Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre was a fixture at Dallas-area pro-Palestine protests, filming with his camera. Now he faces deportation over social media posts the government claims glorifies terrorism.
The Nevada Independent
Daughter says a mysterious hospitalization and lack of information about her father’s whereabouts are problematic.
The Guardian
While all the names on this list are significant, one name in particular that UC Berkeley handed over to the Trump administration stands out: Judith Butler, the eminent queer theorist, literary theorist and philosopher, and one of the most famous public intellectuals in the United States today.
Politico
The Trump administration is systematically locking up immigrants while they contest the government’s attempts to deport them, even if they’ve lived in the United States for decades and have no criminal record.
Las Vegas Sun
President Donald Trump’s push to accelerate immigration enforcement is being felt in Las Vegas, where federal agents picked up 441 people with detainers and 173 with warrants from police custody from Feb. 7 through Sept. 1, according to Metro Police data obtained by the Sun in a public records request.
The Nevada Independent
With colleges across the U.S. worried about losing international students, Nevada’s two largest state universities pledge to remain a welcoming home for students venturing to Nevada from abroad.