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

9/20/24, Dayton Daily News, Dear Springfield… Read letters of support for Springfield from all over the country

9/21/24, NPR, Without immigrants, America’s job growth would have stalled

9/22/24, Al Jazeera, Refugee chronicles: The long and lonely road from Sudan to France

9/22/24, The Hill, Springfield students suffer collateral damage over anti-immigrant conspiracy theory

9/22/24, The New Yorker, How Trump hopes to exploit the myth of voter fraud in November

9/23/24, New Humanitarian, Fixing trust, pacts for the future, and who’s missing: A humanitarian lens on UNGA

9/23/24, New York Times, Forced from home by war, they found solace in soccer

9/23/24, New Humanitarian, In Syria and beyond, holding our breath for what might be to come

9/24/24, KUOW, 90 days to make a life: One Afghan family’s resettlement in Washington state

9/24/24, Christian Science Monitor, Biden vowed to revive U.S. refugee program. Everyday Americans are helping.

9/25/24, Washington Post, What Haitians really eat: A complex cuisine that influenced America

9/25/24, The Hill, Democrats do better with pro-immigrant messaging than tough-on-border: Study

9/25/24, Washington Post, A migrant was left behind in the desert. Volunteers braved scorching heat to try to find him.

9/25/24, Episcopal Migration Ministries, RISA-NOLA: Portrait of a Rainbow Initiative Congregation, Part 3

9/25/24, Washington Post, The nativists have taken over the GOP

9/26/24, Guardian, Rwandan forces and M23 rebels shelled refugee camps in DRC, report claims

Opinion

9/14/24, Common Dreams (Op-ed), Biden should back refugee resettlement to strengthen America

9/23/24, Rhode Island Current (Op-ed), Dehumanizing rhetoric about Haitian immigrants is unbecoming to America

9/24/24, The Intercept (Op-ed), You should stop calling immigrants “migrants”

9/24/24, Washington Post (Op-ed), The big lie of 2024: illegal immigrant voting

Research and Reports

9/15/24, Journal on Migration and Human Security, Ten Likely Changes to Immigration Policy Under Trump 2.0

September 2024, International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), Offshoring Human Rights: Detention of Refugees at Guantanamo Bay

September 2024, Migration Policy Institute, Displacement and International Protection in a Warming World

September 2024, Migration Policy Institute, Explainer: Noncitizen Voting in U.S. Elections

Multimedia

9/24/24, Bipartisan Policy Center/This Week in Immigration (podcast), Episode 179: Navigating Climate Migration: Urgent Solutions for a Global Challenge

9/15/24, NPR/Goats and Soda (audio), How do you help young Afghan refugees heal? A new program in Maine offers a way

9/24/24, NPR (audio), Women refugees speak of loss and violence in Darfur

9/25/24, NPR/Goats and Soda (audio), Sudanese refugees fled to Chad with hope. What they found is a bitter irony

9/25/24, Texas Tribune and Associated Press (long-form photo essay), 24 hours on the border finds quiet, not chaos. Will it last?

9/25/24, WYPR (audio), Countering false claims on immigrants in the 2024 election