Posted by Dara Lind // Immigration Impact One of the biggest concerns after the end of the Title 42 policy of mass expulsion at the U.S.-Mexico border was that large numbers of people would cross in the hours and days afterward. When the switch happened last Friday at midnight, people feared that bottlenecks throughout the processing […]
Photo Editorial credit: lev radin May 13, 2023 NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the launch of the city’s first asylum seeker arrival center and the placement of what will be the city’s ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York […]
Editorial photo credit: Mike Hardiman Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the Biden administration’s “sweeping new actions to manage regional migration,” announced yesterday: “We welcome the Biden’s administration’s announcement to expand legal pathways, create new regional refugee processing centers, and expand family reunification […]
The Biden administration is reportedly planning to detain large numbers of immigrant families again this spring. This is part of the administration’s plan to replace Title 42 with a new policy that will make it very difficult for the majority of migrants crossing the border to qualify for asylum in the United States. According to news reports, […]
The public has spoken: an asylum transit ban was bad policy during the Trump era, and it’s bad policy now. On February 21, the Biden administration released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking laying out the details of a planned asylum transit ban. The proposed rule, a new version of a Trump-era policy, would all but bar […]
New York, NY—Today, news broke that the Adams administration is ordering some city agencies to slash their budgets by an additional 4% on top of cuts implemented last year. Budget Director Jacques Jiha wrote in a letter to agency heads that these cuts, known as Program to Eliminate the Gap (PEGs), would be part of the Mayor’s […]
On Monday night, 39 migrants died, and another 27 were seriously injured, in a fire in a Mexican detention center in Ciudad Juarez. The migrants—most of them from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela—were being held for deportation by the Mexican immigration enforcement agency INM, after a sweep to pick up migrants who were working […]
The United States and Canada announced the expansion of their Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) last week during President Biden’s visit to Canada. Under U.S. law, a so-called “Safe Third Country” agreement allows the United States to deport asylum seekers to a third country without allowing them to apply for asylum. The move was kept secret for almost a […]
The New York Times has published a horrifying investigation into the exploitation of children who migrated to the United States as unaccompanied minors. The investigation by Hannah Dreier finds these children pressed into labor in every state in the U.S., in violation of labor law and often in horrifying conditions. It’s an essential read. But it’s […]
Lawyers and asylum experts condemned the latest asylum ban proposed by the Biden administration. American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt, who argued the challenge against the Trump asylum ban, said: “If the Biden administration goes through with its proposed asylum ban, we will sue, just as we successfully sued over the Trump asylum bans. […]