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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
I’ve just finished reading Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, by Jonathan Blitzer. I highly recommend it: in-depth reporting, deeply personal storytelling, and painfully accurate analysis of U.S. involvement in Central America and immigration from Central America. Instead of a summary of today’s (very few) news articles on immigration,…
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Immigration News: May 22, 2024
With apologies to Stephen Sondheim and Judy Collins
In today’s immigration news: Democrats and Republicans play politics with immigrant lives; Haitian deportations; falling numbers of border crossings; more
The Biden administration and Senate Democrats are pushing another border bill. This will likely amount to just more campaign positioning, as Republicans will not allow it to come to pass,…
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Immigration News: May 21, 2024
In today’s immigration news: Christians and immigration; children in the Darien Gap; more.
Christian responses to immigration often split along (political) party lines. But is there any religious response that is informed by Christian teaching and history? Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz insists that a Christian response is not “Show me your papers.” but rather “How can I help you in your…
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Immigration News: May 20, 2024
A reminder: People seeking asylum ARE legal immigrants. They can live in any U.S. state while waiting for immigration authorities or courts to act on their applications. Title 8 U.S. Code, Section 1158
In today’s immigration news: Two-thirds of judges’ rulings in asylum cases grant protection; more roadblocks ahead for asylum seekers; Minnesota’s Driver’s Licenses for All implementation;…
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Immigration News: May 17, 2024
Painting of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis, 1785
In today’s immigration news: Benjamin Franklin, immigration policies, and changing definitions of whiteness; Arizona’s confusing immigration politics and polls; more.
Today’s immigration debate has deep historic roots in the United States, and those roots are as racist as today’s rhetoric. From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to…
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Immigration News: May 16, 2024
In today’s immigration news: Welcoming refugees in the heartland; Mexico busing migrants to remote locations; Texas-size lies on the border; more.
South Dakota welcomed 200 refugees last year, which makes it the fifth highest state for per capita refugee resettlement. The Uniting for Ukraine program resettled an additional 250 people, who are not classified as refugees.
While larger states,…
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Immigration News: May 15, 2024
In today’s immigration news: 100,000 (undocumented) high school seniors graduate with no DACA protection allowed; Stewart Detention Center court; Girl Scouts and migrant shelters.
Nearly 100,000 high school seniors will graduate with no path to work or college this year. They are undocumented, though many have lived in the United States since they were young children and know no other home.…
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Immigration News: May 14, 2024
In today’s immigration news: More families, more asylum seekers, more countries in profile of migration changes; Chinese migrant arrivals; Chinese migrant deportations; more.
Photo courtesy The Sidewalk School.
Increasing migration, from a wider number of countries, including South America, China, and India, presents major challenges to border enforcement and to processing asylum claims. The…
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Immigration News: May 13, 2024
Photo of protesters in Washington DC on February 23, 2023, courtesy of CASA.
In today’s immigration news: New rules to restrict asylum applications; suing to stop Iowa’s new anti-immigrant law; more.
A new regulation proposed by the Biden administration would allow speedier removal of a small number of asylum applicants. Before taking effect, regulations must go through a comment and response…
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Immigration News: May 10, 2024
Photo by Tristan Schnurr, Creative Commons License
In today’s immigration news: More Republican lies about non-citizen voting; another Republican Congressional attack on immigrants, documented and undocumented; the 1,400 children separated from their parents under Trump—and still separated now; more.
Republicans continue to lie about non-citizen voting. Every single investigation, every bit of…
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Immigration News: May 9, 2024
In today’s immigration news: Immigration, polls, and the upcoming election; Trump and Project 2025; Democrats’ slide to the right on immigration.
Is immigration a “top issue” in the upcoming November elections? NPR talked to Gallup pollster Megan Brenan, and found out that the answer is complicated. Immigration is a higher-priority issue for Republicans than for Democrats. Misinformation about…
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Immigration News: May 8, 2024
From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to state laws passed in 2023 and 2024, Chinese immigrants and Chinese-Americans have been targeted by racism and xenophobia. Florida, and other states, have passed a range of anti-immigrant laws in the past year. A new Florida law prohibits Chinese nationals from buying homes or agricultural land in the state. Another law may prohibit state universities from…
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Immigration News: May 7, 2024
In today’s immigration news: How the federal government could help U.S. cities and asylum seekers; Canadian refugee systems; unaccompanied minors in Minnesota.
As asylum seekers arrive in the United States, they struggle to find shelter and support during the months that it takes to file an official application and wait to become eligible for a work permit. States and cities struggle to provide…
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Immigration News: May 6, 2024
Photo by Amyyfory -Creative Commons license, U.S.-Mexico border wall, San Diego sector, November 26, 2021
In today’s immigration news: Waiting for CBP One; health care for DACA recipients; Iowa editor Art Cullen denounces anti-immigrant state law; more.
The CBP One app is the only way for migrants who have made the long trek from their homes to the southern U.S. border to get appointments to…
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Immigration News: May 3,2024
Immigrants strengthen and build the U.S. economy. Restricting immigration means restricting U.S. economic growth.
Minnesota’s economy depends on the contributions of immigrant workers. A Trump victory in November, with his promise of stopping most immigration, “could cripple Minnesota’s workforce,” reports the Star Tribune. Agricultural and health care sectors would be especially hard…
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Immigration News: May 1, 2024
New polls on U.S. attitudes toward immigration, immigrants, and immigration policy multiply like rabbits. Careful reading reveals one overwhelming conclusion: Americans are massively confused and misled about immigration. The confusion shows up in contradictory results within polls. The same polls show support for deporting millions of undocumented immigrants and for giving them a pathway to…
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Immigration News: May 1, 2024
Good news: Tens of thousands of individuals, families, and groups eager to welcome newcomers have applied for the various welcome programs created by the Biden administration. For the first time, these programs allow individuals to sponsor refugees and parolees from designated countries.
U.S. citizen spouses of unauthorized immigrants are pushing for the Biden administration to grant them…
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