Articles
8/8/24, The New Yorker, The betrayal of American border policy
8/9/24, NPR, The Refugee Olympic Team wins its first-ever medal, thanks to boxer Cindy Ngamba
8/10/24, New York Times Magazine, The Interview: The Man who tried to solve immigration for the G.O.P.
8/12/24, Houston Landing, ‘Worst nightmare of my life’: Solitary confinement rises at Houston-area ICE detention center
8/12/24, Mother Jones, Trump’s dangerous campaign of hatred against migrant ‘invaders’
8/12/24, Sahan Journal, Line dancing and language lessons: kids build cultural fluency at Hmong summer camp
8/12/24, UNHCR, Refugee Olympic Team inspires as it makes history
8/13/24, Ohio State News, In the absence of immigrant services, churches welcome Haitians to small town Ohio
8/13/24, Truthout, Trump backlogged citizenship process — Biden has halved the time it takes
8/13/24, Borderless, The faces of immigrant-owned small businesses in Chicago
8/13/24, New Humanitarian, ‘Ticking time bomb’: DR Congo turns to abusive militias to fight M23 rebels
8/13/24, Mother Jones, Trump may demonize migration from Venezuela, but he helped fuel it
8/13/24, Christian Science Monitor, Trump calls for mass deportations. How would that work?
8/14/24, New Humanitarian, What is refugee rentierism? An explainer
8/14/24, New York Times, On the ground with Sudanese refugees
8/14/24, NBC News, Texas Gov. Abbott vows to keep busing migrants north. One problem: not enough migrants.
8/15/24, New York Times, A catastrophic civil war in Sudan
8/15/24, NPR, It’s the third anniversary of Taliban fighters retaking the Afghan capital Kabul
August 2024, Mother Jones, No boundaries
August 2024, Virginia Theological Seminary/Anglican Commentary, Martin Dickinson, Washington National Cathedral Sanctuary Ministry
August 2024, Los Angeles Times/Press Democrat, Positives of Migration
Opinion
8/11/24, Forbes (Op-ed), Trump’s family separation immigration policy: how history could repeat
8/12/24, Washington Post (Op-ed), What deporting 15 million people would look like
8/12/24, National Catholic Reporter (Op-ed), How Trump’s deportation plan would harm the nation — and the church
8/13/24, Newsweek (Op-ed), Vulnerable and voiceless — The ongoing failure to protect unaccompanied migrant children
8/14/24, New York Times (Op-ed), Do politicians realize how difficult and rare immigrating to the U.S. legally actually is?
8/14/24, ASBNB Today (Op-ed), Immigrants in the sandwich generation
Research and Reports
8/13/24, Migration Policy Institute, Immigrants from the Dominican Republic in the United States
8/9/24, Migration Policy Institute, What does integration mean in a multicultural country like Canada?
8/7/24, Human Rights First and partners, ‘Don’t tell me about your fear’: Elimination of longstanding safeguard leads to systematic violations of refugee law
July 2024, Migration Policy Institute, The end of asylum? Evolving the protection system to meet 21st century challenges
Multimedia
8/9/24, WBUR/Endless Thread (podcast), The little-known immigration program some call a ‘digital cage‘
8/13/24, This Week in Immigration (podcast), Ep. 176: New data on foreign-born in the U.S. and the budgetary impacts of an immigration surge
8/14/24, NPR (audio), Trump touts historic deportation plans, but his own record reveals big obstacles
8/15/24, The New Humanitarian, First Person (podcast), In the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, ‘everything seems fine, until it’s not’