Regional Focus: United States

News:

Barring asylum seekers on the southern border

Yesterday, the Trump administration issued an interim final rule that, together with a Presidential Proclamation issued this morning, place significant limits on the right to seek asylum. Here is an initial sampling of commentary and analysis:

*Barring Asylum Claims: The President Versus the Statute (Lawfare Blog, Nov. 2018) [text]

Five Things You Need to Know about the Asylum Ban (Niskanen Blog, Nov. 2018) [text]

"Trump Claims New Power to Bar Asylum for Immigrants Who Arrive Illegally," New York Times, 8 Nov. 2018 [text]

Trump Signs a 90-day Asylum Ban for Border Crossers (Vox, Nov. 2018) [text]

UNHCR Statement on New US Regulation on Asylum (UNHCR, Nov. 2018) [text]

Withholding of Removal and the U.N. Convention Against Torture—No Substitute for Asylum, Putting Refugees at Risk: Fact Sheet (Human Rights First, Nov. 2018) [text]

Legacy of (now former) Attorney General Jeff Sessions

The Immigration Crisis Jeff Sessions Leaves Behind (The Marshall Project, Nov. 2018) [text]

Jeff Sessions’s Carefully Built Deportation Machine Will Outlast Him (Vox, Nov. 2018) [text]

"Jeff Sessions Leaves the Trump Administration with a Tough Legacy on Crime and Immigration," Pacific Standard, 7 Nov. 2018 [text]

A Look Back at Immigration Under Sessions’ Justice Department (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2018) [text]

"Sessions: The Trump Administration’s Once-Indispensable Man on Immigration," Migration Information Source, 8 Nov. 2018 [text]

Event:

Access to Justice, Due Process, and the Rule of Law in the US Immigration System: Present Realities and a Vision for the Future, Washington, DC, 15 November 2018 [info]

Publications:

2018 Midterms and Immigration: What Will Congress Do Next? (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2018) [text]
- See also related VOA News article.

"Border Officials Preparing to Evict Immigrant Encampments Near Texas Ports of Entry," Texas Monthly, 8 Nov. 2018 [text]

How the United States Should Address Refugee Protection at Its Border (Human Rights First, Nov. 2018) [text]

Immigration Court Backlog Surpasses One Million Cases (TRAC, Nov. 2018) [text]

Is Mexico Safe for Refugees and Asylum Seekers? (Human Rights First, Nov. 2018) [text]

"Immigration Law & Resistance: Ensuring a Nation of Immigrants," UC Davis Law Review, vol. 52, no. 1 (2018) [full-text]
- Symposium issue with 15 articles.

"More Migrants From Far-Flung Lands Crossing US-Mexico Border," VOA News, 9 Nov. 2018 [text]

"South American Immigrants in the United States," Migration Information Source, 7 Nov. 2018 [text]

*The U.S. Government’s 2018 Border Data Clearly Shows Why the Trump Administration is on the Wrong Track (WOLA, Nov. 2018) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Nationality & Statelessness - Pt. 2 (Nationality) (8 Nov. 2018)
- Regional Focus: United States (6 Nov. 2018)

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