Articles
8/30/20, Guardian: How Angela Merkel’s great migrant gamble paid off
8/28/20, New York Times: As Coronavirus Reappears in Italy, Migrants Become a Target for Politicians
8/28/20, NBC News: Tony Pham, new interim ICE director and Vietnamese refugee, draws criticism from Asian groups
8/28/20, Washington Post: She fled detention and torture in Nicaragua for asylum in the United States. The government put her on a plane back home.
8/27/20, KPBS: Federal Judge Denies Kumeyaay Attempt To Stop Border Wall Construction
8/27/20, Immigration Impact: ICE Makes It Almost Impossible for People to Make Phone Calls from Detention Centers, Even in a Pandemic
8/27/20, Vox: A nation of immigrants no more
8/27/20, USA Today: Cristina Jiménez Moreta helped get DACA, now she helps young immigrants find their voice
8/27/20, USA Today: Undocumented in Pennsylvania: An immigration activist stays defiant despite Trump policies
8/26/20, New York Times: Trump Takes Night Off From Anti-Immigrant Talk to Swear In U.S. Citizens
8/26/20, New York Times: Border Officials Weighed Deploying Migrant ‘Heat Ray’ Ahead of Midterms
8/26/20, Border Report: Legal limbo brings anxiety, stress to asylum seekers riding out pandemic in Mexico
8/25/20, CBS News: USCIS abandons mass employee furloughs that would’ve crippled immigration system
8/25/20, Guardian: ‘We risk our lives for our patients’: the US immigrant doctors dying of Covid
8/25/20, Immigration Impact: Department of Justice Proposes New Limit to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ Power
8/25/20, Slate: How One of Mexico’s Largest Migrant Camps Has Avoided a COVID-19 Outbreak
8/25/20, CBS News: U.S. restricts work permits for asylum-seekers, raising fears of homelessness and hunger
8/24/20, AZPM: New Citizenship and Immigration Services memo announces the implementation of new DACA guidance
8/24/20, Intercept: Psychological Torture: ICE Responds to COVID-19 with Solitary Confinement
8/24/20, Denver Channel: Nonprofit aims to help immigrant parents navigate US school system for kids
8/24/20, Immigration Impact: Where Does Trump Get the Money to Build the Border Wall? Not From Steve Bannon
8/24/20, AP: Evangelicals ask Ivanka Trump to help protect migrant kids
8/24/20, Slate: COVID-19 Is a Convenient Excuse to Expel Refugees
8/23/20, San Diego Union-Tribune: Who gets asylum? Even before Trump, system was riddled with bias and disparities
8/23/20, NPR: CARES Act Leaves Out U.S. Citizens Married To Immigrants
Opinion
8/27/20, CNN: In the shadow of a pandemic, Rohingya challenge our ideas about refugees
8/27/20, Guardian: Greece has a deadly new migration policy – and all of Europe is to blame
8/27/20, New Humanitarian: You don’t have to be neutral to be a good humanitarian
8/25/20, Foreign Policy: The World Needs to Reopen Borders Before It’s Too Late
8/24/20, Guardian: If you felt cooped up in lockdown, think of refugees confined indefinitely in camps
Policy Resources
CMS paper: Rebuilding the US Refugee Resettlement Program
CMS paper: Border Enforcement Developments Since 1993 and How to Change CBP
MPI fact sheet: Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Regional Profile
Multimedia
8/26/20, NBC News (video): How immigration activism group ‘Witness at the Border’ tracks hundreds of deportation flights
8/26/20, Only in America (podcast): Racial Justice and Immigration: Karla McKanders
8/24/20, Fresh Air (audio): How Stephen Miller Became The Architect Of Trump’s Immigration Policies
Feet in 2 Worlds (podcast): “A Better Life?” A New Podcast Series from Fi2W
Educational Resources
Reimagining Migration: The Great Migration in Perspective – Isabel Wilkerson
Reimagining Migration: Supports for Students in Immigrant Families
This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence
base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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