08 June 2024

Regional Focus: United States

News/commentary re: "A Proclamation on Securing the Border"
  • Biden’s immigration order won’t fix problems quickly – 4 things to know about what’s changing (The Conversation, June 2024) [text]
  • Biden’s New Changes to the Asylum Process: What You Need to Know (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2024) [text]
  • "Biden’s new executive order denies asylum claims to most migrants crossing the border unlawfully," NPR, 4 June 2024 [info]
  • Joint Analysis of Biden Border Proclamation (American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Immigration Project & Women’s Refugee Commission, June 2024) [text]
  • Texas Democrat pushes back on Biden’s asylum order: ‘Isn’t going to work’ (The Hill, June 2024) [text]
  • UNHCR expresses concern over new asylum restrictions in the United States (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Short pieces:

Are More Undocumented Immigrants Living in the US Now? Here’s What the Numbers Say (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2024) [text]

Border Patrol’s 100th Anniversary Offers Chance to Look Back at Its Disturbing Origins (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2024) [text]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in Crisis. Will the U.S. Government Protect Congolese Immigrants in the United States? (Just Security Blog, May 2024) [text]

Life on the US-Mexico border is chaotic. An immigration scholar explains why − and it’s not for the reasons that some GOP lawmakers claim (The Conversation, June 2024) [texttext]

New Country of Origin Research Materials for U.S Asylum Attorneys (WOLA, May 2024) [text]

The US is reviving the worst of its immigration history to all of our peril (The Hill, May 2024) [text]

Reports:

Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Univ. of Texas, May 2024) [text]

One Year After the Asylum Ban: More Barriers to Asylum Access (USCRI, May 2024) [text]

Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing (Georgetown Univ., May 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Burden Shifting to U.S. Nonprofits: Supporting Access to Asylum When Legal Protection Frameworks Fail," Nonprofit Policy Forum, Ahead of Print, 23 May 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Afghans.

"CBP One and the Due Process Rights of Asylum Seekers at the Threshold," Univ. of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class, vol. 24, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Vague Made Vogue: The Unconstitutionality of the Particularly Serious Crime Bar," Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online, 2 Aug. 2023 [full-text]

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