Title 42’s End May Be in Sight. Good Riddance.
…protect us from COVID—19. And when it comes to border management, Title 42 is uniquely counterproductive. For the first year of its use, border apprehensions rose every single month, peaking…
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Abbott’s Anti-Immigrant Blockade Cost the US Billions in Just a Few Days
Less than a week after the Biden Administration announced the impending end to the COVID-era Title 42 border policy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott escalated his ongoing political fight with the…
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USCIS’ 2022 Progress Report Shows Promise, But Agency Still Has a Long Way to Go
…ongoing COVID pandemic, backlog for legal immigration and asylum cases, and more. Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released its Fiscal Year 2022 Progress Report. The report highlighted…
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Still Awaiting Court Dates, Migrants Suffer the Effects of ‘Band-Aid’ Fixes to Our Broken Immigration System
…was still operating under COVID restrictions and unable to handle the volume. Many migrants given NTRs were not able to check-in as required. In an effort to address problems with…
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Failure to Reauthorize Employment Harms Asylum Seekers and the U.S. Economy
…their work authorization, despite their timely filing for renewal. One of those workers is Dr. Muradyan, who lost her positions at two rural hospitals, where she cared for COVID victims….
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ICE’s New Case Review Process Lets Immigrants Appeal Detention and Deportation
…heightened risk of COVID and need to get out of detention as quickly as possible. Expecting people in this situation to have knowledge of the administration’s new priorities, understand how…
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ICE Tells Parents to Separate From Their Children or Risk Indefinite Detention Together
…all three family detention centers. The coronavirus pandemic presents additional health risks to detention. One model predicted that a COVID-outbreak in detention could spread to 72% to 100% of those…
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DHS Watchdog Recommends Immediate Action to Address Horrific Conditions in ICE Detention
…one of the nation’s largest for-profit private prison companies, and currently houses less than 100 male noncitizens. Before the outbreak of COVID, it held hundreds more. During the inspection, OIG…
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USCIS Reduces Its Backlog for the First Time in Years
…hiring freeze and the reduction in adjudications during the COVID pandemic as factors leading to this growth. Despite these obstacles, the report details considerable successes the agency achieved while primarily…
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How To Seek Asylum (Under Biden’s Proposed Asylum Transit Ban), In 12 Not-At-All-Easy Steps
…regime in place to succeed Title 42 when the national COVID emergency ends, which is currently set to happen on May 11. This regulation is written to serve as that…
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