News Digest: January 31, 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

1/26/25, Colorado Public Radio News, Trump’s halting of refugee resettlement means uncertainty, further delays for those fleeing persecution

1/26/25, NPR, Churches have a long history of being safe havens — for immigrants and others

1/26/25, Associated Press, White House says Colombia agrees to take deported migrants after Trump tariff showdown

1/26/25, Washington Post, What ending birthright citizenship could look like in the U.S.

1/27/25, NPR, Afghans who helped the U.S. are in dangerous limbo after Trump’s order on refugees

1/27/25, Vermont Digger, Suspension of federal funding hits Vermont resettlement agencies and dozens of new arrivals

1/27/25, Newsweek, Christians, evangelicals take stand against Trump over refugees

1/28/25, NPR, Evangelicals and immigration policy

1/28/25, New York Times, Trump officials revoke Biden’s extension of protections for Venezuelans

1/28/25, NPR, Promised U.S. visas, tens of thousands of Afghans are in limbo with Trump order

1/29/25, New York Times, Citizenship by birthright? By bloodline? Migration is complicating both.

1/29/25, Associated Press, Refugee resettlement agencies scramble after Trump orders them to halt their federally funded work

1/29/25, Associated Press, Trump White House rescinds memo freezing federal money after widespread confusion

1/29/25, New Humanitarian, What to make of the Trump aid freeze chaos?

1/29/25, Religion News Service, With federal funds stopped, local faith groups plan to redouble private efforts to resettle refugees

1/29/25, The Bulwark, Trump turns schools into an immigration battleground

1/29/25, New York Times, Trump says U.S. will hold migrants at Guantanamo

1/30/25, NPR, Trump is facing criticisms for plans to hold up to 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo Bay

1/30/25, Washington Post, The Trump executive orders and actions that are having immediate impacts

1/30/25, Episcopal News Service, As Trump touts deportations, many Episcopalians are eager to offer immigrants sanctuary, support

1/30/25, Christian Century, Defending dignity at the National Cathedral

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

Opinion and organizational statements

1/24/25, National Catholic Reporter (Op-ed), Addressing Trump, Bishop Budde did what a Christian is obliged to do

1/28/25, The Hill (Op-ed), We fought back against Trump’s Muslim ban. We’ll fight his new assault on immigrant rights, too.

1/30/25, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Op-ed), It’s not Pittsburgh’s job to enforce federal immigration law

1/30/25, GoErie.com (Op-ed), We need immigrants, they need more legal paths to citizenship — not deportation

1/22/25, National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), Leading with cruelty: Eight impacts of Trump’s first day executive orders

1/25/25, RCUSA, Suspending Foreign Assistance Funding Causes Unimaginable Harm to Refugees and Forcibly Displaced People in the United States and Overseas

1/31/25, Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR), ECAR urges reinstatement of US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP)

Research and Reports

1/22/25, American Immigration Council, Fact Sheet: After Day 1: A High-level Analysis of Trump’s First Executive Actions

1/23/25, American Immigration Council, Trump’s Day 1 Orders Use Fearmongering to Expand his Immigration Authority

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

Multimedia

1/23/25, Define American with Jose Antonio Vargas (video), How artists, activists, and parents can respond to Trump’s immigration agenda with Paula Mendoza

1/28/25, This Week in Immigration (podcast), Ep.187: The Outlook for immigration policy under a new Congress and presidency

1/28/25, The Daily Blast (podcast), Angry Trump’s orders to border officials grow unnerving

1/29/25, Define American with Jose Antonio Vargas (video), What the media gets wrong about immigration with Maria Hinojosa

1/30/25, Border Chronicle (multimedia), Postcards from the border: an essay of paintings with artist Susan Lyman

1/30/25, WBUR/Here & Now (audio), How Trump’s immigration enforcement is playing out in Massachusetts

Janet Morford2025-01-31T14:23:42-06:00