19 August 2024

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Webinar: Immigration Reform in 2025, 20 November 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

The Democratic Party Platform and Asylum (The Asylumist Blog, July 2024) [text]

"Do Politicians Realize How Difficult and Rare Immigrating to the U.S. Legally Actually Is?," New York Times, 14 Aug. 2024 [text]

The fifteen categories of immigration cut off by Project 2025 (Niskanen Center, Aug. 2024) [text]

Homeland Security pauses Biden parole program (ImmigrationProf Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

The Immigrant Roots of Our U.S. Olympians (Updated) (ImmigrationProf Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

US is Finally Aiding Stranded Afghan Allies, But Congress Needs to Step Up (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

"U.S. to speed up asylum processing at northern border to deter migrant crossings," CBS News, 13 Aug. 2024 [text]

Reports:

"Don't Tell Me About Your Fear": Elimination of Longstanding Safeguard Leads to Systematic Violations of Refugee Law (Human Rights First et al., Aug. 2024) [text]

Fall 2024 Update for Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy, 9th ed. (West Academic, 2021) [text]
- "This Update includes materials on major developments since the Ninth Edition of Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy went to press in late 2020. This Update is cumulative, including any material in the 2021, 2022, and 2023 Updates that remains current."

"Particularly Serious Crime" Bars on Asylum and Withholding of Removal: Legal Standards and Sample Case Law Determinations (Immigrant Defense Project & Harvard Law Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Aug. 2024) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

U.S. Immigration Courts: Access to Counsel in Removal Proceedings and Legal Access Programs (Congressional Research Service, Aug. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Congress's Untapped Authority to Certify U Visas," Columbia Law Review Forum, vol. 124 (April 2024) [full-text]

"Explaining Asylum Law Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis," Laws, vol. 13, no. 4 (Aug. 2024) [open access]
- "This article’s empirical focus is a study of asylum decisions issued by the US Circuit Courts."

"Forced Back into the Lion's Mouth: Per Se Reporting Requirements in U.S. Asylum Law," Marquette Law Review, vol. 107, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

"From across the globe – traumatic injuries are an international concern at the US-Mexico border wall," Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 9:e001308 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

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