20 January 2021

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Workshop: Immigration Law in the Time of COVID, 29 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Biden’s Migration Policy Options (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

‘Death to Asylum’ Rule Halted in the Last Days of the Trump Administration (Immigration Impact, Jan. 2021) [text]

Fixing Asylum Part 4: Immigration Court (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Salvaging US Refugee Law in 2021: The Case for Tackling the Problem of Discretionary Asylum (Just Security Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Trump’s Drastic Immigration Court Fee Hikes Are Blocked in Court (Immigration Impact, Jan. 2021) [text]

“We Need Someone to See Us”: To Save Lives, the Biden Administration Should Quickly Restore Refugee Protection (Human Rights First Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

We tracked Trump’s immigration assault for 200+ weeks — what now? (Migratory Notes, Jan. 2021) [text]

A World in which Facts Matter (Asylos Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Reports:

Achieving America’s Immigration Promise: ABA Recommendations to Advance Justice, Fairness and Efficiency (American Bar Association, Jan. 2021) [text via Immigration Prof Blog]

Chaos, Cruelty, & Illegality: The Trump Administration’s Record on Asylum (Human Rights First, Jan. 2021) [text]

Forced into Danger: Human Rights Violations Resulting from the U.S. Migrant Protection Protocols (Physicians for Human Rights, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Protecting the Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Women’s Refugee Commission’s Recommendations to the Biden Administration (Women's Refugee Commission, Jan. 2021) [text]

Review of the Department of Justice’s Planning and Implementation of Its Zero Tolerance Policy and Its Coordination with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Roadmap to Recovery: A Path Forward after the Remain in Mexico Program - Executive Summary (HIAS, Jan. 2021) [text]

The State of the Immigration Courts: Trump Leaves Biden 1.3 Million Case Backlog in Immigration Courts (TRAC, Jan. 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Asylum Search: How the Supreme Court's Potential Ruling in the East Bay Sanctuary v. Barr Case May Change Our Interpretation of Asylee Rights Through the Honduras Deal," Fordham Undergraduate Law Review, vol. 2, no. 8 (2020) [full-text]

"Back and Forth: The Migrant Protection Protocols," The Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2021) [full-text]

Resources:

Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy: New Realities Call for New Answers (Migration Policy Institute) [access]
- Follow link for some of the research undertaken as part of this initiative.

Tracking Joe Biden's plans for refugees, asylum seekers and COVID-19 (International Rescue Committee, updated Jan. 2021) [access]

Tracking Notable Executive Branch Action During the Trump Administration (AILA) [access]

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