Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

Expediting Your Case with USCIS (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

New Immigration Court Statistics: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

No Experience Required: US Hiring Immigration Judges Who Don't Have Any Immigration Law Experience (The Hill, Feb. 2020) [text]
- References the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Courts in Crisis: The State of Judicial Independence and Due Process in U.S. Immigration Courts."

No Fame Required: Where Matter of L-E-A- Went Wrong (RefLaw Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

Rethinking Chevron? (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

The Role of Judges to "Say What the Law is": Judicial Oversight of Immigration Adjudication (Innovation Law Lab Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

The State of Immigration in Our Union (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

Supreme Court Allows Public Charge Clause That Kept Nazi-era Refugees from the US (The Conversation, Jan. 2020) [text]

Travel Ban 4.0: "Proclamation on Improving Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry" (ImmigrationProf Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]
- See also related article in The New Humanitarian.

Reports & journal articles:

Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans Increase in Immigration Court Backlog (TRAC, Jan. 2020)

Dismantling Asylum: A Year into the Migrant Protection Protocols (American Friends Service Committee, Jan. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related blog posts from Immigration Impact and Refugees International, and a Human Rights Watch Q&A.

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 1 (Fall 2019) [free full-text]
- Mix of articles focusing variously on Pereira v. Sessions, Chevron deference in immigration, ICE, LGBTI asylum seekers, credible testimony, educating unaccompanied minors in federal custody and other developments.

*Immigrant and Native Consumption of Means‐​Tested Welfare and Entitlement Benefits in 2016: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, Immigration Research and Policy Brief, no. 5 (CATO Institute, Jan. 2020) [text]

"'Pattern of Discrimination': The United States, Refugees and Barriers to Asylum," University of New South Wales Law Journal Student Series, no. 8 (2020) [full-text]

Policies Affecting Asylum Seekers at the Border: The Migrant Protection Protocols, Prompt Asylum Claim Review, Humanitarian Asylum Review Process, Metering, Asylum Transit Ban, and How They Interact (American Immigration Council, Jan. 2020) [text]

Use of Video in Place of In-Person Immigration Court Hearings (TRAC, Jan. 2020) [text]

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Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (21 Jan. 2020)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (21 Jan. 2020)