Articles

7/2/24, Chicago Tribune, With climate change coming, Chicago’s current migrant influx ‘only going to be the beginning’

7/3/24, Sojourners, Their church basement used to host quinceañeras. Now it houses Mauritanian Muslims

7/3/24, KERA, Recent Supreme Court ruling could have big impact on U.S. immigration policy, asylum cases

7/3/24, Associated Press, Migrants pause in the Amazon because getting to the US is harder. Most have no idea what lies ahead

7/3/24, 19th News, Under increasing pressure to migrate, more women are dying at the US-Mexico border

7/3/24, Religion News Service, Judge rules against Texas Attorney General Paxton in campaign against migrant shelters

7/4/24, NPR, U.S. border officials attribute increased migrant deaths to extreme heat

7/5/24, Associated Press, How Texas is still investigating migrant aid groups on the border after a judge’s scathing order

7/6/24, New York Times, Violence, Rape, Thirst, Even Organ Theft: Migrants Face Lethal Risks in Africa

7/7/24, Los Angeles Times, Alejandro Mayorkas: The immigrant overseeing the borders

7/8/24, NPR, Border town firefighters scramble to save migrants from extreme summer heat

7/8/24, NBC News, Panama is using barbed wire to try to block a major route for U.S.-bound migrants

7/8/24, Borderless, Leaving Venezuela: Omar and Alejandra’s search for a better life

7/8/24, New Humanitarian, 160 dead or missing in Atlantic migrant crossing

7/8/24, Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials wanted to avoid Trump’s ‘kids in cages’ problem. Doing so created another dilemma.

7/8/24, MPR News, Report: Asylum seekers face ‘refugee roulette’ in Minnesota court

7/8/24, New York Times, 5,000 miles, 8 countries: The path to the U.S. through one family’s eyes

7/9/24, New York Times, With empathy, bearing witness to one family’s plight

7/9/24, Documented, Immigration News Today: At Biden’s request, federal judge terminates deal granting protections to migrant children

7/9/24, NBC News, From DACA recipient to first undocumented attorney arguing in front of Supreme Court

7/9/24, Time, The regional origins of America’s first comprehensive federal immigration law

7/10/24, VT Digger, As the world’s largest displacement crisis continues in Sudan, refugees in Burlington, Vermont quietly seek help

7/10/24, New Humanitarian, ‘People started to point the finger’: How the M23 conflict endangers DR Congo’s Tutsi communities

7/11/24, The Hill, House passes bill to ban noncitizens from voting in federal elections

Opinion

7/1/24, Sojourners (Op-ed), Haitian refugees are not dogs: learning from the Canaanite woman

7/5/24, Washington Post (Op-ed), Why I believe parole for immigrant spouses is lawful — and laudable

7/9/24, AILA Think Immigration (Op-ed), Protecting Afghan asylum seekers who are not considered ‘allies’

7/9/24, Las Vegas Sun (Op-ed), Biden has been a leader on immigration reform

7/10/24, AILA Think Immigration ((Op-ed), My initial lifeline was DACA

Research and Reports

7/9/24, Human Rights First, Saving Lives, Ending Inefficiencies: Steps to Strengthen the U.S. Asylum Adjudication System

7/2/24, Migration Policy Institute, East Africa’s Economic Powerhouse and Refugee Haven, Kenya Struggles with Security Concerns

5/22/24, National Immigrant Justice Center and partners, Explainer: Final Regulation on the Care of Unaccompanied Children in Federal Custody

Multimedia

7/9/24, Episcopal Migration Ministries/Hometown (podcast), An interview with members of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ocean Springs, Mississippi

7/9/24, Voice of America, Burkina Faso’s internally displaced scramble to make a living

7/7/24, Just Politics (podcast), Why harming the border harms us all

6/20/24, Center for Migration Studies, Assessing the US Refugee Admissions Program: Looking Back and Moving Forward (recording of webinar)