News Digest: February 7, 2019

• 2/7/19, Washington Post: Trump’s troop deployment strung ‘lethal’ razor wire on the border. This city has had enough.
• 2/5/19, Washington Post: Advocacy groups urge Democrats to oppose DNA collection and facial scanning at border
• 2/5/19, Pew Research: Explore unauthorized immigration by state using our new interactive
• 2/4/19, Religion News Service: Two years after Trump’s travel ban, faith-based refugee groups struggle
• 2/2/19, KTLA: San Diego Launches Bipartisan Plan to Integrate Immigrants, Refugees Into Community
• 1/31/19, The Guardian: Church service stops after 96 days as asylum family pardoned

“Sasun Tamrazyan, his wife Anousche and their children Hayarpi, 21, Warduhi, 19, and Seyran, 15, have been holed up in the Bethel church in The Hague since October, relying on a medieval law that says immigration authorities cannot enter while a religious service is being performed.”

• 1/31/19, The Guardian: Behrouz Boochani: detained asylum seeker wins Australia’s richest literary prize

“His book No Friend But the Mountains – composed one text message at a time from within the detention centre – has been recognised by a government from the same country that denied him access and locked him up.”

• 1/31/19, CityLab: The Cities Refugees Saved
• 1/31/19, NPR: WHO Warns Of Dire Conditions, Deaths Of Children At Refugee Camp In Syria
• 1/30/19, Pew Research: Immigrant share in U.S. nears record high but remains below that of many other countries
• 1/28/19, UNHCR: French village sets an example of how to welcome refugees
• 1/24/19, UNHCR: Social Farming Initiative in Ireland

• 1/23/19, Mother Jones: The United States Is No Longer the World Leader in Resettling Refugees
• December 2018, NY Times Interactive: Refugees Welcome

“Ordinary Canadians, trying to intervene in one of the worst problems on earth. Desperate Syrians, shocked that strangers were adopting them for a year. We spent a year asking: How will this work out?”