News Digest: February 7, 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

1/30/25, Maryland Matters, Advocates urge Maryland lawmakers to protect ‘sensitive locations’ from immigration raids

1/31/25, New Humanitarian, Trump stop-work orders hit local aid and frontline communities

1/31/25, Church Times, US churches challenge Trump immigration raid

1/31/25, Episcopal News Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries to lay off 22 after Trump’s order effectively ends refugee resettlement

1/31/25, NPR, 5 things to know about the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo

2/3/25, Injustice Report, The death of US refugee resettlement

2/3/25, Sojourners, ‘Chaos’ and ‘confusion’ for faith-based nonprofits after funding freezes

2/3/25, MSNBC, Musk assails funding for Lutheran groups as MAGA’s ire towards mercy for immigrants continues

2/3/25, Voice of America, Pakistan sets deadline for Western nations to relocate Afghan allies

2/3/25, NPR, ACLU sues Trump administration over asylum ban

2/4/25, Religion News Service, Refugee aid groups face furloughs after Trump halts program, refuses to reimburse work

2/4/25, Episcopal News Service, Trump’s foreign aid freeze halts Episcopal-affiliated humanitarian aid program in Central America

2/4/25, National Catholic Reporter, How the US bishops’ refugee program, now a JD Vance target, resettled a family

2/4/25, New Humanitarian, Six Haitian women’s struggles to recover from rape by gangs

2/4/25, NPR, ‘Beyond betrayal.’ Venezuelans in Florida are angry at Trump immigration policy

2/5/25, NPR, A brief history of Gaza’s tortured role in the Middle East conflict

2/5/25, New Humanitarian, Roundup: Get up to speed on the Rwandan-M23 conflict in DR Congo

2/5/25, Politico, Judge orders nationwide injunction against Trump’s birthright executive order

2/6/25, The Border Chronicle, The Mass Deportation Handoff

2/6/25, New Humanitarian, “I fear this calm”: Life during Gaza’s uncertain ceasefire

Opinion

1/29/25, Christianity Today (Op-ed), Yes, Jesus was a refugee

1/31/25, Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Op-ed), Deportations require touch choices. Here’s an easy one: leave schoolkids out of it

2/5/25, New York Times (Op-ed), The world’s richest men take on the world’s poorest children

2/6/25, Sojourners (Op-ed), Trump’s attack on USAID is evil

Research and Reports

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

February 2025, Migration Policy Institute, The Unauthorized Immigrant Population Expands amid Record U.S.-Mexico Border Arrivals

2/6/25, Migration Policy Institute, Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States

1/23/25, Migration Policy Institute, With “Shock and Awe,” the Second Trump Term Opens with a Bid to Strongly Reshape Immigration

Multimedia

1/31/25, Define American with Jose Antonio Vargas (video), Andrew Yang on Fixing Immigration and Breaking the Two-Party System

1/31/25, NPR/World Cafe (podcast), Sense of Place: For this Afghan pianist, music is an act of resistance

2/4/25, WAMU/1A (podcast), The future of refugee resettlement in the United States

2/4/25, Border Chronicle (podcast), What is Texas’s Operation Lone Star and what happens if Trump makes it a national model?

Janet Morford2025-02-07T09:25:21-06:00