Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

News:

The Trump administration takes even more steps to do away with asylum:

- The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security Propose Rule on Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal (ImmigrationProf Blog, June 2020) [text]
- "Editorial: Trump’s Latest Efforts to Sabotage Asylum Should Remind You Why He Has to Go," Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2020 [text]
- The End of Asylum — for Now (The Hill, June 2020) [text]
- Human Rights First Condemns Rule That Seeks to Re-Write Refugee Laws, Eliminate Asylum (June 2020) [text]
- Taking a Sledgehammer to Asylum (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, June 2020) [text]
- "Trump is Quietly Gutting the Asylum System Amid the Pandemic," Vox, 12 June 2020 [text]
- Trump's Cold-blooded Move to Shut Out Asylum Seekers (RI Blog, June 2020) [text]
- What You Need to Know About Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate the US Asylum System (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2020) [text]

US Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:

- Find coverage about the ruling on the SCOTUSblog.
- DACA in Three Acts: Genesis, Impacts, Future (UC Davis, June 2020) [text]
- The Supreme Court Decides DACA Rescission Case on Administrative Law Grounds, Avoids Deciding Lawfulness of DACA (ImmigrationProf Blog, June 2020) [text]
- The Supreme Court Gave DACA a Lifeline. Now Trump and Congress Need to Create a Path to Citizenship for Dreamers (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2020) [text]
- "The Supreme Court Saved DACA Because of a Paperwork Error by the Trump Administration," Vox, 18 June 2020 [text]
- The Supreme Court’s Ominous DACA Decision: Perils for Dreamers in What Comes Next (Just Security Blog, June 2020) [text]

Blog posts & press:

"'Abuse of power': Asylum-seekers, Advocates Decry New Use of High Bond Fees as Condition of Parole," NBC News, 16 June 2020 [text]

All the Bad News That’s Fit to Print (The Asylumist Blog, June 2020) [text]
- See also updates to the post.

*Attitudes Toward Refugees Remain Stable Despite Dramatic Changes in U.S. Asylum Policy (Public Religion Research Institute, June 2020) [text]

Border Criminologies Blog, June 2020
- The blog's themed series on "Crimmigrant Nations" includes a couple of US-related posts including: "Trump and Crimmigration in the Era of COVID-19" and "Trump’s Crimmigration: Imposing Authoritarian Power on Dispensable Bodies."

EOIR Director McHenry Replies To TRAC's Letters But Ignores Agency's Data Troubles (TRAC, June 2020) [text]

*Immigration Decisions in the Supreme Court 2019 Term, Upcoming Cases in the 2020 Term (ImmigrationProf Blog, June 2020) [text]

Oxfam Joins ACLU and Other Partners to Sue Trump Administration over Right to Seek Asylum (Oxfam, June 2020) [text]

*"Trump’s Power to Deport Asylum Seekers Boosted by Supreme Court Ruling," The Guardian, 25 June 2020 [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

"Trump’s Second Term Immigration Agenda: Will Anyone be Allowed into America?," Washington Monthly (April-June 2020) [text]

"U.S. Immigration Crackdowns Not Unusual During Times of Crisis," NPR, 21 June 2020 [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (US) (11 June 2020)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (10 June 2020)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (10 June 2020)