Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Events & opportunities:

Panel discussion: Prisons and Punishment: Punitive Policies Harm Asylum Seekers & Immigrants in California, Los Angeles, 24 January 2019 [info]

Symposium: Immigration in the Trump Era, Los Angeles, 1 February 2019 [info]

Training seminar: Making Sense of Immigration Law, San Francisco, 6 February 2019 [info]
- Register by 1 February 2019.

Publications:

Advocacy Groups Submit Comments Opposing Trump’s Asylum Ban
(Immigration Impact Blog, Jan. 2019) [text]

American Asylum: How the Policy of Turning Away Asylum Seekers Violates National and International Law (Kentucky Law Journal Blog, Nov. 2018) [text]

*Cancelled Immigration Court Hearings Grow as Shutdown Continues (TRAC, Jan. 2019) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post and letter from the National Association of Immigration Judges to Congress.

*Do Immigrants Import Terrorism?, Working Paper, no. 56 (Cato Institute, Jan. 2019) [text]

Haiti, TPS, and Racial Bias (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Justice Dept. Admits Error But Won’t Correct Report Linking Terrorism to Immigration," Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2019 [text]
- The Justice report in question is "Executive Order 13780: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States - Initial Section 11 Report."

The Law of Nations, Sovereign Power Over Immigration, and Asylum: It’s Not as Clear as It Seems (CATO at Liberty Blog, Dec. 2018) [text]

*New Guidance Requires Fair Process for Domestic Violence, Gang Asylum Claims at the Border (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Jan. 2019) [text]

No Agency Adjudication? (CMS Blog, Dec. 2018) [text]

"The Shutdown Makes Trump’s Priorities Painfully Clear," The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2019 [text]

"Trump is Rewriting Asylum Law," The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2018 [text]

UNHCR Balances Interests in Response to Trump Asylum Policy (Devex, Nov. 2018) [text]

Washington & Lee Law Review, vol. 75, no. 3 (2018) [full-text]
- Nine articles focus on immigration law and policy in the United States.

Zero Protection: How U.S. Border Enforcement Harms Migrant Safety and Health (Physicians for Human Rights, Jan. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

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Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States (8 Jan. 2019)

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