23 February 2024

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

"I asked criminologists about immigration and crime in the US. Their answers may surprise you," CNN, 15 Feb. 2024 [text]

Immigration reform has always been tough, and rarely happens in election years - 4 things to know (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]

New Immigration Court Data Show Sharp Drop in New Cases, Increase in Case Closures (TRAC News, Feb. 2024) [text]

U.S. Policies Punish Refugees at the Border (Human Rights First Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

USCIS Reduces Its Backlog for the First Time in Years (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking," Policy Sciences, vol. 57, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Dismantling the Due Process Dichotomy in Crimmigration Cases," Cornell International Law Journal, vol. 56 (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]

How Americans View the Situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border, Its Causes and Consequences (Pew Research, Feb. 2024) [text]

"How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging," American Political Science Review, First View, 23 Oct. 2023 [open access]

Outmatched: The U.S. Asylum System Faces Record Demands (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2024) [text]

Project 2025: Unveiling the far right’s plan to demolish immigration in a second Trump term (Niskanen Center, Feb. 2024) [text]

The Supplemental: Refugee-Related Considerations as Congress Navigates the Latest Funding Fight (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

U.S. Border and Asylum Policies Harm Black Asylum Seekers (Human Rights First, Feb. 2024) [text]

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