News Digest: January 4, 2021

Articles

1/2/20, Los Angeles Times: Asylum seekers with strong cases for protection have been sent back to danger, human rights report says

1/1/20, Guardian: World leaders urged to make Covid vaccine available to millions of refugees

12/31/20, New York Times: Hundreds of Migrants Stranded in Freezing Weather in Bosnia

12/30/20, CBS News: Court blocks Trump administration bid to detain migrant families indefinitely

12/30/20, Guardian: ‘I felt like I was born again’: first non-binary person granted UK refugee status

12/30/20, NBC News: Trump administration speeds up ‘midnight rule-making,’ creating hurdles for Biden

12/30/20, Reuters: Cuban migrants protest at Mexico border, seeking entry to U.S.

12/30/20, South Florida Sun Sentinel: Woman defrauded hundreds of immigrants and plowed the money into real estate

12/29/20, Front Page Africa: U.S. Congress Extends DED Program For Liberian Immigrants

12/29/20, KSAT (TX): Trump leaves mark on immigration policy, some of it lasting

12/29/20, Local 21 (PA): Immigrant victims of violence and abuse face stalled U Visa applications

12/29/20, MLive (MI): State Supreme Court to hear case on anti-immigration activist’s papers housed at University of Michigan

12/29/20, New Humanitarian: Editors’ Picks: Why you need to read these 2020 stories to be ready for 2021

12/29/20, New York Times: A Far-Right Terrorism Suspect With a Refugee Disguise: The Tale of Franco A.

12/29/20, Tucson Sentinel: As asylum seekers push Biden for help, fresh DHS regulations complicate system

12/28/20, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: ICE resumes holding women in Southwest Georgia detention center

12/28/20, Vox: US citizen spouses and children of undocumented immigrants will finally get stimulus checks

12/28/20, Vox: What Biden could do about family separations

12/27/20, Colorado Sun: Eight months into coronavirus, an immigrant community in Colorado finds hardship and hope

12/27/20, Teen Vogue: How to Shut Down ICE Detention in Your Community, a Detention Watch Network Guide

Opinion

1/3/20, Week: How Biden can future-proof America’s immigration system

12/30/20, Herald-Leader (KY): Let us celebrate immigrants of color; they make Kentucky and the U.S. a better place.

12/28/20, Las Vegas Sun: Investment in stabilizing neighbor nations serves us better than a wall

12/27/20, Columbus Dispatch: Editorial: Let’s end Trump’s shameful immigration, asylum policies