The EMM Weekly eNews Digest is intended to share immigration-related news, editorials, podcasts, and reports. The views and opinions expressed are those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect our organization’s official policy or position.

Articles

12/5/24, New York Times, Trump names 2 officials to help carry out immigration crackdown

12/6/24, Washington Post, Many targeted for removal by Trump can’t be deported, ICE data shows

12/8/24, NBC News, Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported

12/8/24, Washington Post, Border drownings rose as migrants rushed to cross and Texas clamped down

12/9/24, New Humanitarian, Syria faces humanitarian challenges as it begins post-Assad era

12/9/24, NPR, Trump’s border czar will be in White House, not an agency. Here’s why that matters

12/9/24, Washington Post, Trump has a new family separation problem

12/9/24, NPR, Mississippi communities scarred by ICE raids fear future under Trump

Opinion

12/5/24, USA Today (Op-ed), Biden’s legacy can be a humane transition or a slammed door on asylum seekers

12/5/24, Nevada Independent (Op-ed), Beyond walls and raids: A case for humane immigration reform

12/9/24, Washington Post (Op-ed), Ending TPS would be an easy win for Trump but won’t cause fast deportations

12/10/24, MSNBC News (Op-ed), What Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship actually means

12/12/24, New Humanitarian (Op-ed), Aid agencies: History will judge your failure to call out Israeli war crimes as complicity

Research and Reports

12/5/24, Human Rights Watch, US: Agents Block, Mistreat Mexican Asylum Seekers

12/5/24, Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security, Trump 2.0: Four Key Shifts Expected in U.S. Asylum and Regional Migration Policy

12/10/24, Migration Policy Institute, Biden’s Mixed Immigration Legacy: Border Challenges Overshadowed Modernization Advances

12/11/24, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants for the Report on the Phenomenon of Missing Migrants

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR 2024 Mid-year Trends Report

Multimedia

12/12/24, Aljazeera/The Take (podcast), After Trump’s win, Haitian migrants face an uncertain future

12/11/24, Aljazeera/Inside Story (video), Will the status of Syrian refugees in Europe change?

12/10/24, Aljazeera (interactive), Where do 6 million Syrian refugees live today?

12/5/24, NPR/Throughline (podcast), Seeking asylum in the U.S.

12/3/24, NPR/Goats and Soda, ‘Bread & Roses’ is a guerilla film about Afghan women protesters