Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Webinar: Asylum Betrayed? Biden's Border Politics and Title 42, 13 January 2023 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Escalation of Title 42 Related Abuses in the US Context: The Case of El Paso (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

"Explaining Biden's new border strategy: Expelling some migrants while expanding some asylum claims," ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023 [text]

- Related materials can be accessed here and here. See also related White House fact sheet.

Important Changes to the Title 42 Exemption Process (ImmigrationProf Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

Information on the New Parole Program Available to Haitians Outside the United States (RI Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

"New US border measures ‘not in line with international standards’, warns UNHCR," UN News, 6 Jan. 2023 [text]

- See also related comments from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

A Sober Assessment of the Growing U.S. Asylum Backlog (TRAC, Dec. 2022) [text]

TPS Extension Offers Only a Temporary Fix (Immigration Impact Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

A Trump-era law used to restrict immigration is nearing its end despite GOP warnings of a looming crisis at the Southern border (The Conversation, Dec. 2022) [text]

- Note: Title 42 was set to expire on 21 Dec. 2022, but the Supreme Court intervened and will allow Title 42 to remain in place for now.

Why Do Enjoined Asylum Regulations Remain on Government Websites? (Think Immigration Blog, Dec. 2022) [text via Immigration Law Blog]

Reports & journal articles:

"Courts in Name Only: Repairing America’s Immigration Adjudication System," Harvard Law Review, vol. 136, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]

"COVID-19 Infection and Contact Tracing Among Refugees in the United States, 2020–2021," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 31 Dec. 2022 [free full-text]

"Heads You Stay; Tails You Go: Arbitrariness in Asylum Proceedings and How a Slight Procedural Speedbump May Help," Louisiana Law Review, vol. 83, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

Human Rights Stain, Public Health Farce: Evasion of Asylum Law and Title 42 Abuse Must End—and Never Be Revived (Human Rights First, Dec. 2022) [text]

"Process as Suffering: How U.S. Immigration Court Process and Culture Prevent Substantive Justice," Albany Law Review (Forthcoming, 2023) [preprint]

"Ten Years of Democratizing Data: Privileging Facts, Refuting Misconceptions and Examining Missed Opportunities," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 4 (2022) [full-text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (7 Dec. 2022)