27 September 2020

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

IACHR hearing: Human rights situation of migrants, refugees and unaccompanied children and adolescents in the region, 9 October 2020 [info]
- Scroll to p. 9 for Zoom link to register.

2020 Ainsworth lecture: The Immigration System:  How Did We Get Here and Is There a Path Forward?, 16 October 2020 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Central American refugees stopped by Trump, then by pandemic," AP News, 13 Sept. 2020 [text]

Proposed 15-Day Filing Rule for Asylum Seekers is Designed to be Impossible (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]
- See also related analysis in this Twitter thread.

The Punishment of Immigrants in Times of Crisis: Evidence from 9/11 (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Religion and refugees are deeply entwined in the US (The Conversation, Sept. 2020) [text]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy on Immigration (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Whistleblower: DHS Suppressed Reports on Central America and Inflated Risk of Terrorist Border-Crossers (Just Security Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]
- See also related Asylumist and ImmigrationProf blog posts.

Reports:

After EOIR Fixes Most Egregious Data Errors, TRAC Releases New Asylum Data—But with a Warning (TRAC, Sept. 2020) [text]

Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars (Brown Univ., Sept. 2020) [text]

The Life and Death of Administrative Closure (TRAC, Sept. 2020) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

Pregnant Immigrants and Asylum Seekers During COVID-19 (Center for Reproductive Rights et al, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Entry Denied: COVID, 8 Sept. 2020 [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

The U.S. Immigration Policymaker-in-Chief: The Long History of Executive Authority over Immigration, Webinar, 10 September 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video and audio recordings.

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