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ImmigrationProf Blog
Mexico’s Migration and Asylum Policies, and Conditions at U.S.-Mexico Border, Have Been Significantly Reshaped in Year Since U.S.-Mexico Migration Cooperation Deal Was Signed
On June 7, 2019, after months of heightened Central American migration through Mexico to the United States, the Mexican and U.S. governments signed an agreement to work together to control…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Human Rights Watch: US: Investigate “Remain in Mexico” Program — The Department of Homeland Security Knowingly Returning Asylum Seekers to Harm
The U.S. government should initiate an internal investigation into the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program, Human Rights Watch said today after submitting a formal complaint to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The…
The Asylumist
Asylum Offices and USCIS Will Start Reopening Next Week (Maybe)
By Jason Dzubow
As you might have noticed, USCIS offices have been closed for all in-person appointments–including asylum interviews and biometric appointments–since March 18, 2020. Now, USCIS has announced that it “is preparing…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Webinar Tomorrow 1-2 EDT: COVID-19 and Border Expulsions of Asylum Seekers
Immigrant Rights in the Time of COVID-19Virtual Series Program II U.S. Government Policies at the Border:COVID-19 and Border Expulsions of Asylum SeekersFriday, May 29, 20201 – 2 p.m. EDTTopicsExpulsions at the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump Administration Will Continue to Block Most Asylum Seekers Until End of Pandemic
Lucas Guttentag on Just Security (and here) recently wrote that "On March 20, the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) issued a largely unnoticed but sweeping order authorizing the summary expulsion of noncitizens arriving at…
International Law Prof Blog
Does the US-Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement Deny Asylum in Violation of International Law?
Human Rights Watch and Refugees International have raised serious concerns that the United States-Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement (ACA) denies asylum seekers the opportunity to apply for asylum in violation of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Public Health Experts Urge U.S. Officials to Withdraw Order Enabling Mass Expulsion of Asylum Seekers
The letter is posted on the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health website. The public health expert signatories begin the letter as follows:"We are public health experts at leading public…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Is Asylum Dead in the U.S.? Trump administration grants asylum in two cases in two months
In the nearly two months since the Trump administration’s immigration restrictions have been in effect, only two people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border have been granted permission to stay…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond by John Washington
The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond by John WashingtonThe first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protectionsArnovis couldn’t stay in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
VICE: WHAT MPP LOOKS LIKE
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, VICE’s Paola Ramos traveled to the largest refugee camp on the U.S.-Mexico border to hear from asylum seekers, lawyers and doctors grappling with the Trump administration’s Migrant…