Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Blog posts & media:

"Border Patrol Agents, Rather than Asylum Officers, Interviewing Families for 'Credible Fear'," Los Angeles Times, 19 Sept. 2019 [text]

How the Immigration Court Reached a Record One Million Case Backlog (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]
- See also related TRAC figures.

IACHR Conducted Visit to the United States’ Southern Border (OAS, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Immigrant Population Growth in the U.S. Slows to a Trickle," New York Times, 26 Sept. 2019 [text]

Immigration Courts Irredeemably Dysfunctional and on the Brink of Collapse (The Hill, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Trump Administration to End 'Catch and Release' Immigration Policy, Says DHS Chief," NPR, 24 Sept. 2019 [text]

*"Trump's Travel Ban Really Was a Muslim Ban, Data Suggests," WP's Monkey Cage, 26 Sept. 2019 [text]

US Move Puts More Asylum Seekers at Risk (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2019) [text]

What Happens at an Asylum Hearing in Immigration Court? (The Asylumist Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"And Then the War Came: A Content Analysis of Resilience Processes in the Narratives of Refugees from Humans of New York," International Journal of Communication, vol. 13 (2019) [open access]

Immigrants' Deportations, Local Crime and Police Effectiveness, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 12413 (Institute of Labor Economics, June 2019) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

The Language of Immigration Reporting: Normalizing vs. Watchdogging in a Nativist Age (Define American & MIT Center for Civic Media, Sept. 2019) [text]
- See also related blog post.

"The Movement to Decriminalize Border Crossing," Boston College Law Review, vol. 61 (Forthcoming) [abstract]
- Note: The text will eventually be made available in full-text.

"Removals to Somalia in Light of the Convention against Torture: Recent Evidence from Somali Bantu Deportees," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 33, no. 3 (Spring 2019) [free full-text]

*"Supreme Court Asylum Ruling Latest Sign Judiciary is Not the Brake on the Trump Administration that Immigration-Rights Activists Sought," Migration Information Source, 25 Sept. 2019 [text]

Trump Administration Delivers Asylum Seekers to Grave Danger in Mexico: 200+ Publicly Reported Cases of Rape, Kidnapping, and Assault Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Fact Sheet (Human Rights First, Sept. 2019) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (26 Sept. 2019)

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