Category: Asylum
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Read this Travel Ban Explainer by Immigration Monitor (a credible guide to global immigration). This lists countries with full and partial travel bans that affect various kinds of immigration and non-immigration visas – and the rationale for restricting travel and visas from these countries. Some exceptions make be available for some people with these reasons:…
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Here’s an AI summary of the Border Act of 2024. The Border Act of 2024 (S. 4361), negotiated by Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), was a proposed bipartisan bill that aimed to significantly reform the U.S. immigration and asylum systems. It was not enacted into law, as it failed to pass…
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During his keynote address at a recent gala to raise money for Immigration Law and Justice of New York, Austin Kocher (a professor at Syracuse University) cites these 7 key statistics which tell the story of US immigration currently:
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This article explains why ICE is detaining a 13 year-old boy (whose family in Massachusetts has a pending asylum case) in Virginia’s Northwest Regional Juvenile Detention Facility in Winchester.
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Do you wonder what’s going on in Mexico in 2025 now that the US has changed its asylum practices?At minute mark 37 of this podcast, you can hear Gretchen Kuhner (ED of the NGO El Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migracion) talk about current conditions in MEX regarding enforcement, detention, sylum, etc. She mentions this: 1.…
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The CGRS (Center for Gender and Refugee Studies) reports that in the case of “Matter of KESG” (KESG = initials of the Salvadoran woman seeking asylum) the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled against asylum. Legal precedent over decades established that women are targeted and persecuted b/c they are women. This case decision seeks to provide…
Immigration Insight 