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Border Security
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Capital Thinking
US Executive Branch Update – June 22, 2020
This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day’s press releases. POTUS’ Schedule* 1:00 p.m. EDT – THE PRESIDENT has lunch…
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…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump administration moving to extend border restrictions beyond pandemic
New York Times reports: The Trump administration is moving to extend its virus border restrictions indefinitely, using the government’s broad public health authorities to severely limit immigration across its land borders…
The Right Coast
Paint it black: Report says Trump wants to make border wall too hot to touch – WND
President Donald Trump still wants to paint the U.S.-Mexico border wall black to make the barrier look more menacing and hot to the touch during the summer months, the Washington…
Immigration View
U.S. Border Closure Alert -Until May 21st (at least)
As some U.S. states are starting to re-open parts of their state, this alert is a reminder that the U.S. border with both Mexico and Canada remains closed for non-essential…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border by John Carlos Frey
Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico by John Carlos Frey (2019).A damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and…
The Right Coast
Border Patrol agents expelling undocumented migrants upon apprehension
Agents have been given the discretion to expel people they apprehend without taking them to detention facilities. Individuals are no longer being held in detention areas, said Aaron Heitke, Chief…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Zero-Tolerance: The Trump Administration’s Human Rights Violations Against Migrants on the Southern Border
By Jeff Baker
My friend and co-author, Allyson McKinney Timm, observes that when Americans invoke the language of "human rights" the picture often shifts to some faraway land, somewhere else less concerned with…
COVID-19 Response Blog
United States and Canada Close Land Border to Non-Essential Travel
On Tuesday, March 24, 2020, the .US. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Notification in the Federal Register providing the details of last week's announcements by the United States…
The Trade Practitioner
US Officials Finalize Passenger Travel Restrictions in Response to COVID-19
Effective at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, March 20, 2020 the United States limited non-essential travel across its northern and southern borders through April 20, 2020. The decision comes following…