Articles
11/17/23, WBUR, I left Venezuela seeking safety — my life shouldn’t be fodder for a political stunt
11/18/23, Hoodline, Massachusetts and Biden-Harris administration team up to expedite work authorization for over 1,200 migrants at Middlesex County clinic
11/20/23, New Humanitarian, The human and humanitarian fallout of El Salvador’s gang crackdown
11/20/23, Connecticut Public Radio, Immigration advocate says GOP wants to tie ‘galling’ asylum changes to federal budget negotiations
11/20/23, NPR, A record number of asylum-seekers are cycling through a small California border town
11/21/23, New York Times, The Asylum crisis in America: a look at the numbers
11/21/23, Washington Post, How the surge in migration to the U.S. might affect 2024
11/21/23, Mother Jones, Trump’s immigration plan is a new level of extreme. It also gives Biden an opportunity to do better.
11/21/23, Washington Post, Dreams dying in a Texas city where immigrants fought for an education
11/22/23, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, ‘Just help somebody.’ Fort Worth nonprofit meets needs of arriving Afghan refugee families
11/22/23, New Humanitarian, From Ethiopia to South Africa: the human cost of a neglected migration route
11/22/23, Documented, Family reunification visas: the business of longing
11/24/23, New York Times, Growing numbers of Chinese migrants are crossing the southern border
11/25/23, Post-Journal, New neighbors celebrate first Thanksgiving in Jamestown (NY)
11/26/23, New York Times, The new face of a city of 50,000 people
11/26/23, NBC News, Voters want control of the border, but do they want Trump immigrant roundups and detention camps?
11/28/23, Axios, 1.2 million in Latin America displaced by disasters, study finds
11/28/23, Border Report, GOP’s immigration demands would cause ‘chaos and disorder’ at border, groups say
11/28/23, New York Times, They fled climate chaos. Asylum law made decades ago might not help
11/29/23, Voice of America, Afghans face abuses in Pakistan, US announces hotline
11/29/23, Politico, States thought fast work permits would solve their migrant problems. It hasn’t.
11/29/23, Washington Post, Ukraine funding’s fate hangs on thorny immigration issue in Senate
Opinion
11/16/23, MSNBC (Op-ed), The GOP doesn’t want you to know the true number of undocumented immigrants
11/21/23, The Well (Op-ed), We must embrace America’s welcoming history in this difficult moment
11/23/23, Sacramento Bee (Op-ed), With ongoing humanitarian crises, Sacramento cannot forget about Afghan refugees
11/27/23, Washington Post (Op-ed), Here’s a deal to restore asylum, and order, at the border
11/30/23, New York Times (Op-ed), The window to meaningfully support separated immigrant families is closing
Research and Reports
November 15, 2023, World Health Organization, Occupied Palestinian Territories Emergency Situation Update
November 23, 2023, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Situation Report: Sudan and Ukraine Humanitarian Response 2023
November 2023, Her Justice, Stories from Immigrant Survivors of Gender-Based Violence: The Impact of Work Authorization
Multimedia
11/14/23, Migration Policy Institute, Engaging local voices: Letting cities inform national refugee resettlement goals
11/23/23, New Humanitarian/What’s Unsaid? (podcast), Genocide or not, what difference does a word make?
11/27/23, New Humanitarian, Snapshots: A Palestinian photographer captures life under bombardment in Gaza
11/28/23, New Humanitarian, Art in a time of crisis: drawing Derna
11/29/23, Migration Policy Institute, What exactly is climate migration?