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U.S. Immigration: Lacking Lawyers, Newcomers Join the Undocumented
By Dennis Stinchcomb Pending cases from the Northern Triangle in U.S. immigration courts. These cases now account for over 53% of the total backlog. / Note: FY 2018 data is through July 31. / Data...
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U.S.-Central America-Mexico: Migrant Caravan Shaking up Relations
By Fulton Armstrong Honduran migrants meet with Mexican police in Chiapas. / Pedro Pardo / AFP Photo / Creative Commons The underlying drivers of Central American migration remain the same as always –...
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U.S. Immigration: Call for Wall Ignores Changing Migrant Profile
by Dennis Stinchcomb Southwest border apprehensions, FY 2012-2019 / Note: FY 2019 data is through November 2018. Figures may not total 100% due to rounding. / Data source: U.S. Customs and Border...
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Building Walls, Closing the Border: Not the Answer
By Ernesto Castañeda with Maura Fennelly* U.S. Border Patrol stands watch during border fence reinforcement / U.S. Customs and Border Protection /...
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Latin America: Grappling with Environmental Displacement
Honduran Refugee Caravan/ October 21, 2018/ Flickr/ Creative Commons/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/boyitchy/31600503428/ By Robert Albro* Latin America and its faith-based organizations, seeking to...
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Challenges to “Safe Country” Strategy in Central America Mounting
By Fulton Armstrong Processing at the San Ysidro Port of Entry/ U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ Flickr/ U.S. Government Works Challenges to the U.S. government’s “Asylum Cooperation Agreements”...
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Brazil: Politicizing Refugee Policy
By João Jarochinski Silva* Venezuelan refugees in Boa Vista, Brazil/ Wikimedia Commons/ Creative Commons License Brazil’s decision to welcome Venezuelan refugees is based on political calculations —...
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Lessons Learned from Last Century’s Climate Change Migration
By Elizabeth Keyes* Left: Migrant Workers in California, 1935/ Dorothea Lange/ U.S. Library of Congress/ Wikimedia Commons (modified)// Right: Central American migrants find quarter in southern Mexico/...
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The Other Pandemic
By Alan M. Kraut* Donald Trump speaking to supporters at an immigration policy speech at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. / Flickr / Creative Commons License The coronavirus has...
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U.S. Fails to Consider “Best Interests” of Child Migrants
By Eric Hershberg* The lack of a “best interests” standard in the U.S. Government’s handling of child migrants subjects the children to enduring harm and skews their chances of fair adjudication of...
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