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Zachary Woodman [https://c4ss.org/content/author/zachary-woodman], Alex McHugh [https://c4ss.org/content/author/alex-mchugh], and Nathan Goodman [https://c4ss.org/content/author/nathan-goodman] join Cory Massimino [https://c4ss.org/content/author/cory-massimino] for a panel on Trump’s authoritarian actions on immigration, the history of immigration control and regulation, and what you can do to resist the administration’s authoritarian xenophobia.   Show notes and Sources: Zachary Woodman’s Segment on the Trump Administration’s Actions on Immigration So Far * Trump’s Executive Order on the Alien Enemies Act [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/] * Venezuelan Couple in Virginia Case Thrown out of Civil Court [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/venezuelan-couple-release-00258414] * ICE disappears 48 Undocumented Migrants [https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-new-mexico-officers-arrest-48-illegal-aliens-20-whom-have-criminal-charges-or] * DC Circuit Court Judge: Nazis got more Due Process under Alien Enemies Act [https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5338794/appeals-alien-enemies-act-trump] * Legal History of Migrant’s Constitutional Rights [https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&context=facpub] * Migrants Deported for Non-Gang-Related Tattoos [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/] * 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Have No Criminal Record [https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-10/about-90-of-migrants-sent-to-el-salvador-lacked-u-s-criminal-record] * Trump’s Appeal up to the Supreme Court [https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/politics/alien-enemies-act-supreme-court?Date=20250328&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1743173728&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook], Supreme Court’s Rulings on the matter So Far [https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf] * Trump Defying Court Orders [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/us-maryland-man-deportation-delay.html] * Mike Johnson Floats Dissolving District Courts that Rule Against Trump on Administration [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=67e2f6339d13bf0001ed58a3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky] * House passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions [https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5241423-house-passes-bill-district-court-injunctions/] * MAGA Supporters Send Death Threats to Judges [https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5316340/threats-judges-trump] * Trump Administration’s Letter Intimidating Northwestern Law Clinic [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ub0wYerSsAOfrDEXk_9Ld-Wt_NgPK5i/view] * The Trump Administration’s Populist Arguments in Courts [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/trump-boasberg-constitutional-crisis-latest-doj-king.html] * Thom Homan: “What was Laken Riley’s Due Process?” [https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ll2jjeuh722i] * Trump Admin Executive Order Revoking Citizenship for Thousands of Migrants [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-to-revoke-legal-status-of-over-a-half-million-migrants-chnv/] * Trump Administration Pausing Green Card Applications [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/green-card-applications-trump-administration/] * Filipino Woman from Washington Disappeared by Border Patrol [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-to-revoke-legal-status-of-over-a-half-million-migrants-chnv/] * Canadian Woman Held in Custody by CBP [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney] * Canada, Germany, UK Issuing Travel Warnings against United States [https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5336792/european-countries-canada-travel-warnings-us] * Legal Migrant from Tampa Being Extradited to El Salvador [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302671624.html] *  Columbia Student Hunted by ICE for Her Palestinian Disagreement [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.Yj1G.FUi0xl3HHpi2&smid=url-share] * Tufts Student Abducted by Unmarked Immigration Officials [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/trump-admin-overreach-frightening-new-video-shows-student-being-taken-by-federal-agents-in-mystery-disappearance-that-has-u-s-on-edge-sparking-outrage-and-questions/articleshow/119607995.cms?from=mdr] * Trump Admin Revokes Legal Status for Hundreds of Student Visa Holders [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms] * Three Deaths in ICE Custody at Krome Detention Center in Miami [https://www.aclufl.org/en/press-releases/three-deaths-ice-custody-just-over-month-trumps-presidency-marks-most-deaths-occur] * Texas Migrants Being Deported to Guantanamo Bay [https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/13/immigration-flights-elpaso-guantanamo/] * Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera’s Legal Deposition [https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/2025.03.01.0002-16%20Declaration%20Luis%20Alberto%20Castillo%20Rivera.pdf] * Kristi Noem’s Propaganda Video in El Salvador, which Violates National Law [https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/kristi-noems-el-salvador-prison-photo-op-might-have-violated-the-geneva-convention/#j9zbcxy6bjo29bdpu524dvfi0ck52d4] * Opening of Migrant Detention Center in Michigan [https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2025/03/idled-northern-michigan-private-prison-to-reopen-as-ice-detention-facility.html] * CBP’s 100-Mile Border Zone [https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone] * ICE Targeting US Citizens [https://thehill.com/latino/385261-ice-wrongly-arrested-over-1000-us-citizens-in-recent-years-report/] * Mahmoud Khalil’s Public Statement of His Detention [https://c4ss.org/content/60217] * Louisiana Judge Rules Against Mouhamad Khalil, Citing Foreign Policy Authority [https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/despite-lack-of-evidence-louisiana-immigration-judge-rules-against-mahmoud-khalil-in-deportation-hearing] * Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order [https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+14th+amendment+repeal+executive+order&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=3f469cac911d1030&sxsrf=AHTn8zrRuOOApAS0WtaQGzeD90yu1dLD8w%3A1744497659632&ei=--v6Z9WuJuu0ptQPjee_0Qg&ved=0ahUKEwiVmMGayNOMAxVrmokEHY3zL4oQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=trump+14th+amendment+repeal+executive+order&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiK3RydW1wIDE0dGggYW1lbmRtZW50IHJlcGVhbCBleGVjdXRpdmUgb3JkZXJIighQkAVY4AdwAXgAkAEAmAFboAG9AqoBATS4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgCgAgCYAwCIBgGSBwCgB7QBsgcAuAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp] and Why it’s Unconstitutional [https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/21/trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-is-even-worse-than-expected-and-even-more-blatantly-unconstitutional/] Nathan’s Segment on the History of US Border Policy: * Coyne and Hall: Tyranny Comes Home [https://dokumen.pub/tyranny-comes-home-the-domestic-fate-of-us-militarism-1503605280-9781503605282.html] * Border Militarization and Domestic Institutions [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-024-09440-5] * Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms [https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland] * Drones on the Border: Efficacy and Privacy Implications [https://www.cato.org/immigration-research-policy-brief/drones-border-efficacy-privacy-implications] *  Reece Jones, Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States [https://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Protected-Border-Patrol-Dangerous/dp/1640095209] * US Citizens Deported on Accident Pre-Trump [https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/] * Kenyon Zimmer: Faces of the First Red Scare: Documenting Red Scare Deportees [https://kenyonzimmer.com/red-scare-deportees/faces-of-the-first-red-scare/] Alex McHugh’s Segment on Resisting ICE: * Tool to Find ICE Contractors [https://www.usaspending.gov/search/] * Meet the ICE Contractors [https://www.pogo.org/investigations/meet-the-ice-contractor-running-deportation-flights] * We Have Rights: Document and Witness ICE/CBP Abuse of Power [https://www.wehaverights.us/] * Borderlands Relief Collective [https://linktr.ee/borderlandsreliefcollective] * Border Kindness [https://borderkindness.org/] * Al Otro Lado [https://linktr.ee/alotrolado_org] * Woomera [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcz4xh5qwVU] * Quaker Meeting Raided in UK [https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2025-04/police-raid-uk-quaker-meeting-house-has-backfired-not-surprisingly] * Nathan Goodman, et al: Collective Action in the Sanctuary Movement: Polycentric Protection of Central American Asylum Seekers [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5213134] * Immigrant Legal Justice Center-Know Your Rights [https://www.ilrc.org/resources/community/know-your-rights-toolkit] * National Immigrant Justice Center-Know Your Rights [https://immigrantjustice.org/know-your-rights/ice-encounter] * ACLU-Know Your Rights, Immigrant Rights [https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights]

This episode is hosted by C4SS’s Elinor Ostrom Chair in the Study of Self Governance, Nathan Goodman. Nathan is joined by Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall for a deep dive into the authors’ new book, How to Run Wars, A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, available from June 18th on Amazon, or through the Independent Institute. E-book versions are available for Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barnes and Noble Nook and links are available in the show notes below.  * Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1598133926/theindepeende-20 [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1598133926/theindepeende-20] * Apple iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/how-to-run-wars/id6502372918 [https://books.apple.com/us/book/how-to-run-wars/id6502372918] * Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-run-wars-christopher-j-coyne/1145071631?ean=9781598133943 [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-run-wars-christopher-j-coyne/1145071631?ean=9781598133943]  Christopher Coyne is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and the Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP) through the Hayek Program. He is the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and of The Independent Review. Abigail R. Hall is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. She is an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University [https://www.mercatus.org/] and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute [https://www.independent.org/] in Oakland, California. She is a Non-Resident Fellow with Defense Priorities [https://www.defensepriorities.org/] and a Public Choice and Public Policy Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research [https://www.aier.org/]. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

This episode of MER features Alex McHugh interviewing John Cavanaugh of the digital-privacy organization, The Plunk Foundation. The Plunk Foundation promotes digital data privacy through education, advocacy, and policy recommendations, and by developing privacy tools and tech. Our conversation ranges from the deeper discussion on consent and privacy as related to self-ownership, to the more practical question of how to ethically navigate today's digital landscape and the potential for privacy-focused tech.  John Cavanaugh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/privacy-evangelist/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/privacy-evangelist/]  Email: john@plunkfoundation.org [john@plunkfoundation.org] Support C4SS podcasts on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c4ssdotorg [https://www.patreon.com/c4ssdotorg]

This episode brings Austrian economics into the gender identity discussion. We get into a lot of messy and fascinating questions about gender, identity, and social structures.  Read the paper here: https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/malamet_novak_ct_vol11_iss11_12_epub.pdf [https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/malamet_novak_ct_vol11_iss11_12_epub.pdf] Mikayla Novak is senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is the author of Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective (2018) and Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy (2021). Her research work has been published in a range of academic journals, including Research Policy, Constitutional Political Economy, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. Mikayla’s research interests include Austrian and evolutionary economics, public choice, entangled political economy, economic sociology, public finance, and regulatory economics. And listeners will recognize Akiva Malamet, a returning guest to the show. Akiva previously appeared on our June 2020 episode of Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss his work on Nationalism and Identity Formation. He is a contributing editor at Unpopulist and an MA candidate at Queens University, and a long-time friend of C4SS.

Cory Massimino chats with Jason Lee Byas about public choice theory, reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and war. Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and justice beyond the state.