03 February 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Reflections on Biden administration's first anniversary:

The Biden Administration Falls Short on Asylum During Year One: A Call for Change in 2022 (Women's Refugee Commission, Jan. 2022) [text]

Biden at One: Assessing the Administration’s Immigration Record, 19 Jan. 2022 [access]
- Video recording of MPI discussion.

"Biden at the One-Year Mark: A Greater Change in Direction on Immigration Than is Recognized," Migration Information Source, 19 Jan. 2022 [text]

Mixed One-Year Assessments of Biden on Immigration (ImmigrationProf Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

"One year on, is Biden living up to his refugee and asylum promises?," The New Humanitarian, 24 Jan. 2022 [text]

Protection Denied: Humanitarian Consequences at the U.S. Southern Border One Year Into the Biden Administration (International Rescue Committee, Jan. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Resources for Understanding Biden’s First Year: Immigration Agenda, Policy Changes, Long-term Reforms, and Stark Failures (Center for Migration Studies) [access]

Blog posts & press:

Biden’s ‘Secret’ Flights of Migrants Debunked as a Routine Part of the US Immigration System (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Congress, not Biden, should be held accountable for immigration reform (The Hill, Feb. 2022) [text]

Ending the Remain in Mexico Program: Judging the Boundaries of Executive Discretion (Lawfare Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

Shadow Sanctions for Immigration Violations  (Lawfare Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

"Tens of Thousands of Afghans Who Fled The Taliban Are Now Marooned in America's Broken Immigration Bureaucracy," Time Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022 [text]

"US expels Venezuelan migrants to Colombia under COVID powers," AP News, 31 Jan. 2022 [text]

Uyghurs who fled China face lengthy asylum backlogs (Roll Call, Jan. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Asylum Denied: Remain in Mexico 2.0 (Women's Refugee Commission, Dec. 2021) [text]

Four Years of Profound Change: Immigration Policy during the Trump Presidency (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2022) [text]

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36, no. 1 (Fall 2021) [full-text]
- Mix of articles, notes and current development reports that focus inter alia on detention, deportation, Title 42, immigration policy, and human rights issues.

Immigration Court Backlog Now Growing Faster Than Ever, Burying Judges in an Avalanche of Cases (TRAC, Jan. 2022) [text]

"Overstepping: U.S. Immigration Judges and the Power to Develop the Record," Wisconsin Law Review (Forthcoming, 2022) [preprint]

"A Weaponized Process: The Deterioration of Asylum Administration Under Trump," Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary, vol. 42, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]

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