19 December 2025

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

DHS Classifies Just 4% of ICE Arrests as “the Worst”—Most for Nonviolent Offenses (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Note: This post references DHS' new "Worst of the Worst" database. See also earlier related blog post.

Fight or Flight? (The Asylumist Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Hypothetical Legal Review on Judge Advocates Serving as Immigration Judges (Just Security, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find," ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2025 [text]

Masked Federal Agents Undermine Rule of Law (HRW, Dec. 2025) [text]

New Ban Bars 1 in 5 Legal Immigrants, Even Citizens’ Spouses & Kids (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The US seeks to remake cooperation on migration through bilateral agreements (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2025) [text]

**Visit the ImmProf Blog for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.**

Reports & journal articles:

"Associations between refugee camp living and duration lived in refugee camps with health outcomes: A cross-sectional analysis of the Annual Survey of Refugees, 2021–2022," PLoS One 20(12): e0327608 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Asylum Process in Immigration Courts and Selected Trends (US Congressional Research Service, Dec. 2025) [text]

IRAP Explainer on New Trump Administration Policies Impacting Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Afghan Nationals, and Immigrants from Countries Listed in the Travel Ban (IRAP, Dec. 2025) [text]

Migration Dynamics and Conditions at the U.S.-Mexico Border: November 2025 (Univ. of Texas, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Overcoming Title 42 and the 2022-3 Venezuelan Migrant Expulsion Spectacle: A Border Securocracy Case Study," Politics & Policy, vol. 53, no. 6 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing (Georgetown Univ., Sept. 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

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