Articles
2/7/24, NPR, Why America can’t seem to fix its broken immigration system
2/9/24, Vox, Record numbers of people crossed the U.S. border last year. Here’s a guide to understanding what’s happening
2/12/24, CBS News, Migrants in Mexico have used CBP One app 64 million times to request entry into U.S.
2/12/24, Washington Post, Trump vs. Biden on immigration: 12 charts comparing U.S. border security
2/12/24, Guardian, UK’s Rwanda bill ‘incompatible with human rights obligations’
2/13/24, Voice of America, Afghan special migration to US hits record high
2/13/24, New Humanitarian, ‘When will we be next?’: A dispatch from Rafah
2/13/24, Sahan Journal, ‘These are vulnerable communities’: Backlog on asylum seekers affects Minnesota agencies, families
2/13/24, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Coalition of immigrants, refugee advocates marks ‘New Americans Day’ at Georgia state capitol
2/14/24, Washington Post, After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap
2/14/24, HuffPost, Texas soldiers say Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star is ‘a show’
2/14/24, KQED, New Bay area immigration court opens, aims to tackle deportation backlog
2/15/24, Guardian, Democrats see New York election win as model for tackling immigration issue
Opinion
2/12/24, Colorado Newsline (Op-ed), Border crisis hypocrisy and what’s missing from the immigration debate
2/13/24, Washington Post (Op-ed), The surge in immigration is a $7 trillion gift to the economy
2/13/24, AILA Blog (Op-ed), Speak now or forever hold your peace
2/14/24, Newsweek (Op-ed), I’m helping asylum seekers at the Texas border
2/14/24, New Humanitarian (Op-ed), UNRWA fears are a normal trade-off in international aid. Funding must resume now
2/14/24, Colorado Sun (Op-ed), Why the very real immigration crisis in Denver and other large cities doesn’t have to be a crisis at all
Research and Reports
Multimedia
2/14/24, New Humanitarian, Snapshots: One year on, Syrian photographers capture life after quakes
2/13/24, This Week in Immigration (podcast), Ep. 163: A (Failed) Bipartisan Border Deal and Barriers to Immigrant Tax Credit Access
2/12/24, PBS News Hour, The potential impact of Trump’s extreme deportation and immigration agenda
1/24/24, Migration Policy Institute (podcast), Are the Pacific’s Climate Migration Experiments a Preview for the World?