Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Process Asylum Seekers Subject to the Migrant Protection Protocols (Immigration Impact, Feb. 2021) [text]

Biden Administration Ends ‘Safe Third Country’ Agreements (Immigration Impact, Feb. 2021) [text]

Biden’s Asylum EOs and Where to Go from Here (Just Security, Feb. 2021) [text]

Biden’s immigration reset (Fixgov Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Ending PACR/HARP: An Urgent Step Toward Restoring Humane Asylum Policy (Just Security, Feb. 2021) [text]

Fixing Asylum Part 5: Benefits (The Asylumist, Feb. 2021) [text]

Government Misleadingly Posts Enjoined Asylum Regs (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

The Hidden Cost of Undoing the Travel Ban (Lawfare Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

No Need to Wait for Congress to Begin Using Humanizing Language in the Immigration Space (Immigration Impact, Feb. 2021) [text]

President Biden's Busy Immigration Day (ImmigrationProf Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

- See also related Asylumist blog post.

Torture Survivors Seeking Asylum Must be a Priority in Immigration Overhaul (The Asylumist, Feb. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Chevron’s Asylum: Judicial Deference in Refugee Cases," Houston Law Review (Forthcoming, 2021) [preprint]

Designing a Trauma-Informed Asylum System in the United States (Center for Victims of Torture, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Expectations following Biden’s promises: what effect on mixed migration? (Mixed Migration Centre, Feb. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for text in English and Spanish.

"The Immigrant Struggle for Effective Counsel: An Empirical Assessment," University of Illinois Law Review (Forthcoming, 2021/2022) [preprint]

"Obscured by 'Willful Blindness': States' Preventive Obligations and the Meaning of Acquiescence Under the Convention Against Torture," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 52, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]

"The Race to Dismantle Trump’s Immigration Policies," New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021 [text]

Room to Grow: Setting Immigration Levels in a Changing America (National Immigration Forum, Feb. 2021) [access]

"Unwilling or Unable? The Failure to Conform the Nonstate Actor Standard in Asylum Claims to the Refugee Act," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 52, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]

Why President Biden Needs to Make Immediate Changes to Rehabilitate the Immigration Courts (AILA, Feb. 2021) [access]

Resource:

Immigration Policy Tracking Project [access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (29 Jan. 2021)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (Biden Administration) (29 Jan. 2021)