Regional Focus: United States

Event & opportunity:

CFP: The Return of Sanctuary Cities: The Muslim Ban, Hurricane Maria, and Everything in Between, Detroit, 23 March 2018 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 3 December 2017.

Talk: Aid and Multilateralism in an Era of Populist Politics, London, 7 December 2017 [info]
- Will also be livestreamed.

Publications:

"Appeals Court Partly Reinstates Trump’s New Travel Ban," New York Times, 13 Nov. 2017 [text]

Asylum Outcome Continues to Depend on the Judge Assigned (TRAC, Nov. 2017) [text]

"Coercive Population Control and Asylum in the U.S.," Social Sciences, 6(4), 137 (Nov. 2017) [open access]

"DHS Inspector General: Travel-ban Confusion Led Agents to Violate Court Order," Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2017 [text]

"Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Executive Order on Denying Funding to Sanctuary Cities," Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2017 [text]

"How Trump is Building a Border Wall That No One Can See," Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2017 [text]

Hundreds of Immigrants Will Get to Resubmit DACA Renewals Originally Rejected as “Late” (Vox, Nov. 2017) [text]

The Latest Assault on Immigrants and the Need to Preserve TPS (ACS Blog, Nov. 2017) [text]

The Perils and Pitfalls of Applying for a Green Card (The Asylumist, Nov. 2017) [text]

A Profile of Current DACA Recipients by Education, Industry, and Occupation (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2017) [text]

This Map is a Whole New Way of Looking at Immigration in the US (World Economic Forum Blog, Nov. 2017) [text]

"Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protection for Haitians," New York Times, 20 Nov. 2017 [text]
- Here is the order from DHS.

Resources:

Best Practices in Representing Asylum Seekers (LegalEd, Nov. 2017) [access]
- "This video series...walks you through the preparation for an asylum case before the immigration courts."

ICE Extreme Vetting Initiative: A Resource Page (Brennan Center for Justice, Nov. 2017) [access]
- "This resource page is intended to provide journalists, policy-makers, and the public information about the ICE Extreme Vetting Initiative.. ." See also related Just Security blog post.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States (9 Nov. 2017)

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