News Digest: February 14, 2025

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

2/7/25, Pro Publica, Four years in a day

2/7/25, Nashville Banner, After Trump order, refugees face an uncertain future in Nashville

2/9/25, NPR, The immigration debate is reframing the religious concept of helping your neighbor

2/9/25, Dallas Morning-News, As refugee resettlement groups face funding pause, locals try to ‘step in the gap’

2/10/25, Houston Public Media, Dozens of Houston ISD students suspended for being ‘disruptive’ during immigration protest

2/10/25, Washington Post, An ICE raid gutted a town in Trump’s first term. Now, fear of a repeat.

2/10/25, National Catholic Reporter, USCCB lays off a third of migration staff after Trump’s suspension of refugee resettlement program

2/11/25, PBS, Pope Francis rebukes Trump administration migrant crackdown, taking direct aim at Vance

2/11/25, New York Times, Family of Venezuelan migrant sent to Guantanamo: ‘My brother is not a criminal.’

2/11/25, Baptist News Global, Refugee resettlement ministries sue Trump administration

2/11/25, Christian Century, Faith-based groups challenge Trump orders in two court cases

2/11/25, The Injustice Report, Afrikaners are not refugees

2/12/25, Associated Press, Trump won’t block immigration arrests in houses of worship. Now these 27 religious groups are suing

2/12/25, New York Times, ‘Become American, work hard, love democracy’: Dreams dashed by Trump orders

2/12/25, Texas Tribune, Trump’s mass deportation have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas

2/12/25, Guardian, Misleading ICE data ‘laying groundwork’ for mass deportation, advocates say

2/12/25, New York Times, Many groups promised federal aid still have no funds and no answers

2/13/25, NPR, Hundreds laid off, thousands of refugees at risk losing benefits during federal pause

Opinion

2/7/25, Newsweek (Op-ed), Detaining refugees in Guantanamo Bay is inhumane. Close it now.

2/7/25, Miami Herald (Op-ed), It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to abandon Venezuelans

2/10/25, New York Times (Op-ed), Tenderness as an act of resistance

2/11/25, New York Times (Op-ed), What’s most frightening about Trump’s Gaza ravings

2/12/25, The Hill (Op-ed), No, asylum-seekers are not invading the country

2/13/25, New York Times (Op-ed), Behold the strange spectacle of Christians against empathy

Research and Reports

February 2025, Migration Policy Institute, Explainer: ICE Arrests and Deportations from the U.S. Interior

February 2025, Migration Policy Institute, Amid Tariff Threats, Migration Management is Key to the Evolving Trump-Sheinbaum Relationship

1/31/25, Washington Office on Latin America, Trump’s Pause of U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America: An “America Last” Policy

5/3/23, Migration Policy Institute, Generations of Palestinian Refugees Face Protracted Displacement and Dispossession

Multimedia

2/6/25, NPR/Throughline (podcast), Birthright citizenship

2/8/25, New York Times (photo essay), A tent city is rising at Guantanamo Bay

2/12/15, WBUR (audio), Faith leaders sue Trump administration for allowing immigration arrests in places of worship

2/13/25, Border Chronicle (podcast), The Migrant Criminality Narrative: A podcast with Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez

2/13/25, NILC/Freedom to Thrive (podcast), Ep. 14: Encountering ICE: In Life and in Art

Janet Morford2025-02-13T14:05:55-06:00