2/22/19, New York Times: ISIS Cases Raise a Question: What Does It Mean to Be Stateless?

2/20/19, New York Times: A Staggering Exodus: Millions of Venezuelans Are Leaving the Country, on Foot

2/19/19, National Geographic: With threat of immigration change, ‘our life has stopped’

To Martínez and many Salvadorans who have long made the United States their home, returning to El Salvador is unthinkable. She has become an activist, journeying to Washington, D.C., to tell lawmakers what will happen to families like hers if TPS is revoked. “When you have been living in the U.S.A. for so many years, they think you are rich, and the gangs come after you,” she says. “They ask for ‘rent’—that’s what they call it. They will go after my son, who is 17. They will hurt us if we don’t give them what they ask for.” In the coming year “our son planned to go to college,” Martínez says. “But now our life has stopped.”

2/19/19, Charlotte Observer: ‘The whole community is terrified’: Hundreds rally against increased ICE presence in NC

2/18/19, New York Times: 16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall

2/17/19, New York Times: 21 Savage on ICE Detention, the Grammys and His Uncertain Future

2/15/19, Episcopal New Service: Interfaith community, San Diego Episcopalians continue to respond to asylum seekers’ needs

2/15/19, NPR: Supreme Court To Decide If 2020 Census Includes Citizenship Question

Citing Census Bureau research, the groups suing argue that asking about citizenship status will depress census participation among households with noncitizens. That could lead to an undercount of immigrants and communities of color, which would have major implications for the way political power and federal funding are shared over the next decade.

2/15/19, Arizona Republic: DACA recipients and TPS holders left out of proposed House budget deal

2/15/19, NPR: Behind The Border ‘Crisis’: More Migrant Families Risk Dangerous Remote Crossings

2/14/19, The Guardian: Italy rejects record number of asylum applications

2/14/19, Washington Post: U.S. plans to build massive migrant center in El Paso aimed at processing family asylum seekers

2/13/19, Houston Public Media: 49,000 Texas Children Could See Their Parents Lose Temporary Protected Status

2/13/19, IRIN: Briefing: How the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh is changing

2/13/19, Washington Post: Why Syrian refugees are at risk of a forced return to Syria

2/12/19, New York Times: When Facebook Spread Hate, One Cop Tried Something Unusual

“We see that peoples’ feelings of safety and their actual safety are moving apart, like a pair scissors that are opening,” Mr. Guske said. “We’re trying to close those as much as we can. Hate can arise from this, which we’ve seen can turn the population against migrants and refugees.”

2/12/19, Christianity Today: Get Close to Refugees, and Let Love Grow