Articles
12/23/23, Los Angeles Times, For new refugees, finding work and housing is hard. Finding community is even harder
1/4/24, Mennonite Central Committee, Why U.S. gun sales south of the border matter
1/10/24, Wisconsin Public Radio, GOP bill would require local hearings, resolutions on proposed refugee resettlement plans
1/11/24, CBS News, Senate border talks broaden to include Afghan evacuees, migrant work permits and high-skilled visas
1/12/24, Texas Tribune, Abbott’s immigration rhetoric criticized again after interview response about shooting migrants
1/14/24, Washington Post, Dangerously low temperatures worsen migrant crisis in Chicago
1/15/24, National Public Radio/Goats and Soda, Q&A: Author Muhammad Zaman on why health care is an impossible dream for ‘unpersons’
1/15/24, New Humanitarian, The Darien Gap migration crisis in six graphs, and one map
1/16/24, Houston Landing, Houston family torn apart by Trump policies shocked Congress could revive immigration law
1/16/24, Associated Press, The Biden administration escalates its border dispute with Texas after 3 migrants drown
1/16/24, New Humanitarian, Rather than looking for scapegoats, Morocco is cashing in on South-South migration
1/17/24, Global Refuge, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service rebrands as Global Refuge
1/18/24, New Humanitarian, In Lebanon, young Syrians sleep out in the open to avoid night-time deportation raids
1/18/24, Wall Street Journal, Biden accedes to tougher immigration policy to deflect criticism, secure Ukraine aid
1/18/24, New Humanitarian, Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel’s starvation of Gaza
Opinion
1/12/24, The Guardian (Op-ed), Republicans make wild claims about the dangers of immigration. Here’s the truth
1/15/24, New York Times (Op-ed), This border deal is a political trap for Democrats
1/17/24, The New Republic (Op-ed), Congress is sleepwalking into a draconian asylum ban
1/18/24, Washington Post (Op-ed), Forget about securing the border. It won’t work.
Research and Reports
Multimedia
12/22/23, Wisconsin Public Radio, Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: unseen life in the world’s largest refugee camp
1/5/24, Voice of America/Connect Full (video), Crossing Borders 312: Stories of a Liberian Refugee, a formerly undocumented Bolivian and a humanitarian migrant
1/11/24, Reuters/The Wider Image, The toll on migrants of a free bus north from the border
1/18/24, New Humanitarian/Rethinking Humanitarianism (podcast), How to step aside to promote change