Joseph Gunther

I’m a mathematician and editor living in Brooklyn, NY.

joseph@josephgunther.me

Selected Work

"No hearing necessary: pretermission and third-country deportations in immigration court," December 18, 2025, updated January 12, 2026, with Brandon Marrow. 

Quantifying immigration court arrests,” October 7, 2025, update coming relatively soon, numbers available before then on request.

“Slicing the stars: counting algebraic numbers, integers, and units by degree and height,” Algebra and Number Theory, with Robert Grizzard.

“Random hypersurfaces and embedding curves in surfaces over finite fields,” Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.

“Integral points of bounded degree on the projective line and in dynamical orbits,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, with Wade Hindes.

In the Media

Jazmine Ulloa, Allison McCann, and Hamed Aleaziz, "Trump administration pushes asylum seekers to apply in other countries," New York Times.

Julia Ingram, "ICE agents target New York City immigration courts more often than others, new analysis suggests," CBS News.

Ximena Bustillo and Rahul Mukherjee, "NPR analysis shows skyrocketing number of 'no-shows' in immigration court," NPR.

Haidee Chu and Gwynne Hogan, "NYC is the nation's capital of immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows," THE CITY.

Margaret Kadifa, "A courthouse arrest, a surprise pregnancy, and one family's shattered dreams," Mother Jones.

Tim Röhn, "What I saw at the epicenter of Trump's war on 'illegals,'" Politico.

Lauren Gibbons, "Michigan Supreme Court considers limits on courthouse immigration arrests," Associated Press/Bridge Michigan.

This American Life, "The hand that rocks the gavel," NPR.

Kate Morrissey, "Timeline: what ICE arrests have looked like at the San Diego federal building," Daylight San Diego.

Wendy Fry, "He was building a life in San Diego. Then he got a one-day notice for an ICE check-in," CalMatters.

In Court Filings

U.T. v. Bondi, District for D.C., third-country pretermissions case.

Pablo Sequen v. Albarran, Northern District of California, courthouse arrests case.

African Communities Together v. Lyons, Southern District of New York, courthouse arrests case.