Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Asylum ban:

News:

"America's Shifting Asylum Policies Explained," VOA News, 24 Sept. 2019 [text]

"An Immigration Attorney at the A.C.L.U. on Fighting Trump’s Asylum Ban," New Yorker, 17 Sept. 2019 [text]

"Explainer: U.S. Enacts Sweeping New Asylum Bar Following Supreme Court Decision," Reuters, 16 Sept. 2019 [text]

"Trump’s Agreements in Central America Could Dismantle the Asylum System as We Know It," Vox, 26 Sept. 2019 [text]
- Note: The administration now has agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras that will allow the U.S. to return asylum-seekers to those countries if they did not first apply for asylum or other protections there before proceeding to the U.S. This effectively makes Central Americans ineligible for asylum at the U.S.'s southern border. See also earlier related Vox article.

"US Supreme Court Ruling Erodes Protections for Asylum Seekers, UN Says," VOA News, 13 Sept. 2019 [text]

Blog posts:

Acquiescing in Refoulement: This Week's U.S. Supreme Court Decision (RefLaw Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

Asylum Ban 2.0 Won't Work - Here's Why (The Asylumist Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

What Trump’s Asylum Ban Will Mean for the Thousands Waiting at the US-Mexico Border (The Conversation, Sept. 2019) [text]

Fact sheets:

Third Country Asylum Rule: What You Need to Know (Penn State Law, updated Sept. 2019) [text]

Trump Administration’s Third-Country Transit Bar is an Asylum Ban That Will Return Refugees to Danger: Fact Sheet (Human Rights First, Sept. 2019) [text]

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Detention, esp. in the U.S. (17 Sept. 2019)
- Thematic Focus: Solutions (17 Sept. 2019)
- Events: Upcoming Meetings & Presentations in the US (12 Sept. 2019)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (12 Sept. 2019)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (12 Sept. 2019)

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