Regional Focus: U.S. Immigration Policy & COVID-19

News:

On 22 April 2020, the White House issued a Proclamation Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak.

An online discussion will be held today at 1:00 pm EDT on "The Legality of the New Trump Immigration Bans."

For a selection of discussion & commentary, see the following:

The Executive Order "Suspending Entry of Immigrants" (The Asylumist Blog, April 2020) [text]

"In the News: Trump Announces US Immigration ‘Suspension’," The New Humanitarian, 21 April 2020 [text]

President Trump Issues Executive Order Temporarily Halting the Issuance of Green Cards (Center for Migration Studies, April 2020) [text]

President Trump’s Immigration Suspension has Nothing to do with Coronavirus (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2020) [text]

Presidential Proclamation Suspending the Entry of Certain Immigrants into the United States – What You Should Know (AILA, April 2020) [text]

Responses to the Suspension of Immigration (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2020) [text]

Trump’s Coronavirus Immigration Order is a Restriction in Search of a Rationale (Lawfare Blog, April 2020) [text]

Trump’s Executive Order to Stop Issuing Green Cards Temporarily, Explained (Vox, April 2020) [text]

What You Need to Know About President Trump’s Latest Ban on Immigration (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2020) [text]

Why Trump’s Immigration Suspension Doesn’t Make Sense (CATO At Liberty Blog, April 2020) [text]

Blog posts & press:

Coronavirus Border Expulsions: CDC’s Assault on Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Minors (Just Security Blog, April 2020) [text]
- Note: The CDC order will be extended to 20 May 2020. See also related Human Rights First comment.

COVID-19 Symposium: US Border Closure Breaches International Refugee Law (OpinioJuris, April 2020) [text]

Research Provides No Basis for Pandemic Travel Bans (CATO At Liberty Blog, April 2020) [text]

There is No Public Health Rationale for a Categorical Ban on Asylum Seekers (Just Security Blog, April 2020) [text]

Trump Has Achieved His Goal of Abolishing Asylum (Slate, April 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

COVID-19 and the Remaking of U.S. Immigration Policy? Empirically Evaluating the Myth of Immigration and Disease, Working Paper, no. 11 (UC San Diego, April 2020) [text]

"COVID-19, Wall Building, and the Effects on Migrant Protection Protocols by the Trump Administration: The Spectacle of the Worsening Human Rights Disaster on the Mexico-U.S. Border," Administrative Theory & Praxis, Latest Articles, 9 April 2020 [free full-text]

"Immigration in the Time of COVID-19," Chapter in Law in the Time of COVID-19 (Columbia Law School, April 2020) [free full-text]
- Scroll to p. 27.

Resources:

COVID-19 Migration-related Developments (Center for Migration Studies) [access]
- See subsection on "US Policy Developments."

Resource Center: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) (AILA) [access]

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