News Digest: January 10, 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

12/19/24, Washington Post, U.S. deportations at highest level since 2014, ICE report shows

12/20/24, The Watch, What to watch for: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on immigration and mass deportations

12/20/24, Global Refuge, Advocacy in action: Congress backs Afghan relocation office as part of end-of-year vote on defense bill

12/22/24, New York Times, Refugees are bracing for Trump to cut the resettlement program again

12/23/24, NBC News, Immigrants prepare action plans after Trump says he will allow ICE to act in schools, churches, and hospitals

12/27/24, Switchboard, Health life, healthy body, healthy mind: Social determinants of health for LGBTQ+ newcomers

1/2/25, New Humanitarian, Editors’ picks: 10 stories from 2024 that still matter in 2025

1/2/25, Cleveland.com, Afghan refugee women find community through weaving at Praxis Fiber Workshop

1/6/25, New York Times, Massacre upon massacre: Haiti’s bleak spiral into a failed state

1/7/25, Associated Press, Schools around the U.S. are weighing responses to possible immigration raids

1/7/25, Washington Post, Fate of UN Palestinian refugee agency in limbo as Israel readies ban

1/7/25, NPR, Pope Francis names Cardinal Robert McElroy as archbishop of Washington, D.C.

1/7/25, The Wire, A Lifetime in limbo: Rohingya refugees face arbitrary detention and dire living conditions

1/7/25, New York Times, What if ICE agents show up? Schools prepare teachers and parents.

1/7/25, The American Prospect, How sanctuary laws could throw a wrench into Trump’s deportation plans

1/8/25, New Humanitarian, Humanitarian crises that demand your attention now

1/8/25, Washington Post, The writing is on the wall for a big immigration bill

1/9/25, New York Times, Egypt’s economy is damaged. It sees a scapegoat, and a potential fix, in refugees.

Opinion

12/25/24, The Hill (Op-ed), Undocumented immigrants pay more than their fair share of taxes

1/1/25, Common Dreams (Op-ed), The Dems won’t win by abandoning immigrant rights

1/3/25, Los Angeles Times (Op-ed), Why Trump’s plan to deport millions will fall far short of what it promises

1/9/25, Washington Post (Op-ed), Trump can’t deport everyone. Here’s what he should do instead.

Research and Reports

12/16/24, Refugees International, Ensuring a Safe, Secure, and Dignified Future for Displaced Syrians

12/19/24, Pew Research Center, Americans lean towards keeping legal immigration steady, see high-skilled workers as a priority

December 2024, Migration Policy Institute, Top 10 Migration Issues of 2024

January 2025, Migration Policy Institute, Jimmy Carter and Immigration: A Wide-Ranging Legacy that Remains Relevant Today

Multimedia

1/9/25, The Border Chronicle (podcast), What’s going to happen on the border in 2025?

1/7/25, NPR/Goats and Soda, They were going to be doctors. Instead, they had to dodge bombs and flee wars

1/1/25, NPR/Code Switch (podcast), Burning away what doesn’t serve us: Lessons learned from celebrating the Ano Viejo

12/30/24, Borderless (photos), Favorite visuals of 2024 — and the stories behind them

12/26/24, UNHCR, A year of turmoil: conflicts, crises, and displacement in 2024

12/26/24, Define American with Jose Antonio Vargas (video), Can Donald Trump really deport 4% of the U.S. population?

Janet Morford2025-01-09T19:27:37-06:00