02 April 2026

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Community Resistance: Immigration Law in the Face of Mass Deportation & Repression, UC Davis Immigration & Nationality Law Review Symposium, Davis, CA, 17 April 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

Affirmative Asylum Cases Dismissed and Sent to Court Without an Interview (The Asylumist Blog, April 2026) [text]

American Immigration Attitudes by the Civic Health Institutions Project (ImmProf Blog, March 2026) [text]

"Explainer: How the Trump administration is undermining legal immigrants," The Guardian, 21 March 2026 [text]

A German Right-Wing Influencer Has Requested Asylum in the U.S. Does She Have a Case? (The Asylumist Blog, March 2026) [text]

Government Defrauds Legal Immigrants and US Sponsors Who Paid $1 Billion in Fees (CATO At Liberty Blog, March 2026) [text]

How Secretary Mullin Can Reform DHS (Just Security, March 2026) [text]

Interview with an Immigration Judge: Larry Burman (The Asylumist Blog, March 2026) [text]

Two-Thirds of Open Somali Cases Placed on "Somali Rocket Docket" (bklg Blog, March 2026) [text]

US Supreme Court to hear landmark asylum case on border ‘turnbacks’ (UNSW, March 2026) [text]
- See also related posts on Just Security, Lawfare, and SCOTUSBlog

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

Reports:

Asylum Cooperative Agreements: Denial of Due Process and Risks of Return to Danger (CGRS, March 2026) [text]

Temporary Protected Status (TPS): An Overview (American Immigration Council, March 2026) [text]
- See also related SCOTUSBlog post.

Resource:

Cuban Migration Projection Dashboard (Niskanen Center, March 2026) [access]
- "This dashboard projects monthly Cuban migration encounters at US borders under three scenarios using a scenario-conditional model calibrated against historical data. It does not use time-series forecasting or machine learning. Each projection is the output of a structured set of assumptions about route accessibility, enforcement posture, and regime behavior."

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