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There are a lot of news headlines every day to keep track of and make sense of… so if you only have time for a handful each week, here are our top picks:
Week of 8/5/22
Cato: CBP Is Expelling Thousands of Infants and Toddlers to Mexico After Midnight
NPR: Texas and Arizona are sending migrants to D.C. without formal support in place
Reuters: Death threats alone can support asylum bid, appeals court rules
Washington Post: The ticking time bomb still threatening the big climate deal
Week of 7/29/22
Texas Observer: Migrant Deaths Are A Feature—Not A Bug—Of U.S. Immigration Policy
The Hill: Supreme Court wrong to block Biden immigration priorities El Paso Matters: Asylum-seeking family reunites with dog from Venezuela: ‘We needed him’
Week of 6/24/22
Axios: Trump-era Remain in Mexico program under new scrutiny
Forbes: Revelations Show Trump Immigration Policy Was Supposed To Be Harsher
NBC15: Time’s running out for Afghans seeking asylum and Wisconsin lawyers step up
Houston Chronicle: This Father’s Day, don’t forget about those separated from their children
Week of 6/17/22
AP News: Justices dismiss Trump-era immigration case, in a Biden win
AP News: US-expelled Haitians fuel charter business to Latin America
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Closing Pittsburgh immigration court symptomatic of broken system
Times Union: Universities should play greater role in supporting refugees
The Hill: DHS policy encouraging discretion in deportations blocked by judge
Week of 6/10/22
The Hill: Advocacy groups call on Biden to make migration commitments at Summit of the Americas
Daily Beast: Immigration Red Tape Imperils This Girl’s Transplant Chances
Newsweek: Biden Struggles to Fulfill His Promise to Take 100,000 Ukrainian Refugees
Border Report: DHS: False narratives on border security could inspire extremist violence
Vice: The Trump Policy Keeping Mothers and Children Broke and Stranded at the Border
Week of 6/3/2022
Week of 4/15/2022
NY Times: U.S. Offers Protection to People Who Fled War in Cameroon
The Hill: Bus with migrants sent by Texas governor arrives in DC
MSNBC: Abuse of migrant children didn’t start with Trump. It didn’t end with him, either
KPBS: Two months after Tijuana shut down migrant border camp, asylum-seekers worse off
Week of 4/1/2022
Vice: The US Admitted a Group of Russians at the Border Under Secret Deal With Mexico
Business Insider: Leaked Video Exemplifies What Black Migrants Suffer in U.S. Detention Centers
Washington Post: An abject Biden failure on immigration should prompt a real rethink
Week of 3/25/2022
ABC News: Biden admin move to expedite asylum processing gets mixed feedback
Fronteras: Asylum seekers in Nogales compare Title 42 immigration policy to crucifixion
CBS News: U.S. launches deportation operation to Colombia using Title 42 border rule
Politico: Biden has a plan for Ukrainian refugees. Advocates want him to be bolder.
Week of 3/11/2022
Border Report: Courts give conflicting orders on asylum limits at border
Bloomberg Government: Biden Use of Trump Border Policy Draws Fresh Rebuke From Allies
ABC News: US reverses course, allows Ukrainian family to seek asylum
MSNBC: U.S. relief for Ukrainians exposes glaring immigration inequality
LA Times: Stop dividing immigrants into the ‘good’ vs. the ‘bad.’ They all deserve due process
Week of 3/4/2022
MSN: Many nonwhite refugees fleeing Ukraine caught in limbo at borders
Politico: DHS grants Ukrainians in U.S. temporary protected status for 18 months
Border Report: Migrants willing to climb 4,000 foot California mountain to get into U.S.
The Atlantic: Biden Seizes the Center
Week of 2/25/2022
Roll Call: Advocates urge protections for Ukrainians in US
The Intercept: Arizona Attorney General Manufactured an “Invasion” at the Southern Border
Wall Street Journal: Aid Groups to Stop Representing Migrants in Remain in Mexico Program
Week of 2/18/2022
Cato Institute: How the U.S. Created Cuban and Haitian Illegal Migration
Reuters: Migrants sew mouths shut in quest for Mexico passage to U.S. border
Axios: The for-profit detention circle
Week of 2/11/2022
ABC News: Mexican authorities evict Tijuana migrant camp near border
CGRS: Court Vacates Two Trump-Era Rules That Denied Work Authorization To Asylum Seekers
Reuters: U.S. to try house arrest for immigrants as alternative to detention
Al Jazeera: US-deported Cameroonians suffered serious rights violations
Week of 2/4/2022
CNN: US begins quietly flying Venezuelan migrants to Colombia under controversial border policy
CBS News: 36,000 Afghan evacuees lack pathway to permanent legal status in the U.S.
Time: Haitian-Americans Say Biden Is Turning His Back on a Country He Promised to Help
NBC News: White House supports permanent legal status for families separated at border