Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

An Asylee on the Front Line of the Pandemic (The Asylumist Blog, April 2020) [text]

Challenging State Narratives about Immigrant Criminality (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2020) [text]

"Immigrants Have Always Known the Pain of Social Distancing," The Atlantic, 2 May 2020 [text]

Now is Not the Time for the U.S. to Deport Venezuelans (Human Rights Watch, April 2020) [text]

Trump's New Immigration Ban is Potentially More Dangerous, and More Legally Vulnerable, Than You Might Think (American Constitution Society Blog, April 2020) [text]

"The US Has Abandoned Asylum Seekers in Mexico during the Pandemic," Vox, 27 April 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

AILA Law Journal, vol. 2, no. 1 (April 2020) [contents]
- Mix of articles. See also related blog post.

Expelling Asylum Seekers is Not the Answer: U.S. Border Policy in the Time of COVID-19 (Refugees International, April 2020) [text]

The Harbinger, vol. 44 (2020) [full-text]
- The ABA Immigration Symposium issue, with 6 articles. Note: The Harbinger is an online-only publication of The N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change.

Human Rights Magazine, vol. 45, no. 1 (April 2020) [full-text]
- Focuses on immigration law and policy issues.

Is Honduras Safe for Refugees and Asylum Seekers? Fact Sheet (Human Rights First, May 2020) [text]

Practice Alert: Coronavirus Asylum Claims Based on “Other Serious Harm” (National Immigration Project, March 2020) [text]

"Zero-Tolerance: The Trump Administration's Human Rights Violations Against Migrants on the Southern Border," Drexel Law Review (Forthcoming, 2020) [postprint]

Multimedia:

Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico Border during the Pandemic: A Conversation with Members of Congress, 22 April 2020 [info]
- Follow link for video.

Immigration Short Takes (Zolberg Inst.) [access]
- Follow link for recordings of interviews.

Resource pages:

COVID-19 Resources for Immigration Law (comp. by Ron Wada &Stephen Yale‐Loehr) [access via ImmigrationProf]

Information and Resources Related to COVID-19 Pandemic (CLINIC) [access]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: U.S. Immigration Policy & COVID-19 (24 April 2020)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (20 April 2020)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (20 April 2020)