Regional Focus: United States

Event: 

Conference: America’s Future: Refugees, Migration and National Security, Boise, Idaho, 23 October 2017 [info]
- Register by 20 October 2017.

Brief travel ban update:

"Federal Judge in Hawaii Blocks Trump's Third Attempt at Travel Ban," NPR, 17 Oct. 2017 [text]

Travel Ban 3.0: The Hawaii TRO is Right on the Statute (Lawfare Blog, 17 Oct. 2017) [text]

"Second Judge Halts Trump's Latest Attempt at Travel Ban," Politico, 18 Oct. 2017 [text]

Publications:

The Attorney General’s Jaundiced–and Inaccurate–View of Asylum (The Asylumist Blog, Oct. 2017) [text]

"Criminalizing Immigration," Chapter in Academy for Justice: A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform (Erik Luna, ed., Forthcoming, 2017) [full-text via SSRN]

DOJ Threatens to Turn Immigration Judges into ‘Assembly-Line Workers’ (Immigration Impact Blog, Oct. 2017) [text]

For Many Undocumented Migrants at the US-Mexico Border, in the Absence of Federal Government Help, Faith Groups Offer the Only Hope (LSE USAPP Blog, Oct. 2017) [text]

"How U.S. Policies are Worsening the Global Refugee Crisis," The Blue Review, 16 Oct. 2017 [text]

Musings on Our Asylum System – after AG Sessions’ Remarks on ‘Dirty Immigration Lawyers’ (Insightful Immigration Blog, Oct. 2017) [text]

Protecting the DREAM: The Potential Impact of Different Legislative Scenarios for Unauthorized Youth (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2017) [text]

"Special Report: They Fled Danger for a High-stakes Bet on U.S. Immigration Courts," Reuters, 17 Oct. 2017 [text]

"They Have One-way Tickets, Paid for by Washington: Behind the Scenes on an ICE Air Deportation Flight," CNN, 13 Oct. 2017 [text]

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- Regional Focus: United States (14 Oct. 2017)

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