Articles
5/1/24, Sojourners, Chicago churches oppose call to end city’s sanctuary status
5/2/24, WXOW, Family faces immigration issue firsthand
5/3/24, Noticias Telemundo, Migrants in Mexico who are victims of crime are defenseless against the legal system’s failures
5/3/24, Reuters, Biden expands health insurance access for DACA immigrants
5/4/24, NBC News, ‘The world has changed’: WeChat, snakeheads, and the new era of global migration
5/5/24, Associated Press, Biden has rebuilt the refugee system after Trump-era cuts. What comes next in an election year?
5/6/24, New Humanitarian, In post-coup Niger, migration becomes legal again
5/6/24, The Conversation, Trump promises to deport all undocumented immigrants, resurrecting a 1950s strategy — but it didn’t work then and is less likely to do so now
5/7/24, Washington Post, Six years later, 1,400 children remain separated from their families
5/7/24, Episcopal News Service, General Convention to consider endorsing ‘migration with dignity’ principles
5/7/24, New Humanitarian, Aid agencies struggle to adapt to Ecuador’s new (violent) normal
5/7/24, PBS News Hour, How Oklahoma’s undocumented community is preparing for expanded immigration enforcement
5/8/24, NPR, Migrants claiming asylum can be allowed into the U.S. Here’s how it works
5/8/24, New Humanitarian, ‘They fear what’s coming’: How Israel’s Rafah escalation is affecting civilians and the aid response
5/8/24, NPR, Biden considers allowing some Palestinians from Gaza to come to the U.S. as refugees
5/8/24, Associated Press, Biden administration will propose tougher asylum standards for some migrants at the border
5/8/24, CBS News, US to empower asylum officials to reject more migrants earlier in the process
5/8/24, NewsNation, Humanitarian groups outraged over immigrant detention expansion
Opinion
5/2/24, New York Times (Op-ed), The cruel spectacle of British asylum policy
5/3/24, The Conversation (Op-ed), Many immigrants to the U.S. are fleeing violence and persecution — here’s how the federal government can help cities absorb them
5/7/24, The Hill (Op-ed), Slowing America’s migrant and drug crises starts with helping Guatemala
5/7/24, The Hill (Op-ed), Many U.S. cities are eager to welcome migrants. We need to make it easier for them to do so.
Research and Reports
Multimedia
5/7/24, EMM/HomeTown podcast, Season 7, Episode 3: An Interview with Nasratullah Khalil
5/7/24, This Week in Immigration podcast, Ep. 169: How to Make Immigration Popular through Demonstrably Beneficial Policies
5/5/24, New York Times, On Queens soccer fields, immigrants find each other and a sense of home
5/2/24, Christian Science Monitor/Why We Wrote This podcast, A ‘disproportionate toll’: A woman of Gaza on what Gaza’s women face
5/2/24, ProPublica/Texas Tribune, “The Right Way”: The Long Journey to Asylum for One Venezuelan Family