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Justices Let Biden Shut Down ‘Remain in Mexico’

June 30, 2022 at 10:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the Biden administration on a controversial immigration policy, saying it had the authority to reverse a Trump-era policy that requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are reviewed in U.S. courts,” the Washington Post reports.

“The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. writing for himself and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, and the court’s three liberals, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Biden’s Pick for ICE Withdraws

June 27, 2022 at 6:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Biden’s nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ed Gonzalez, said Monday that he was withdrawing himself from consideration after his nomination hit roadblocks following domestic violence allegations,” The Hill reports.

Filed Under: Immigration

Court Widens Scope of Deportations

June 26, 2022 at 10:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A Biden administration policy that prioritized the arrest of undocumented immigrants who are considered a threat to public safety and national security has been suspended as of Saturday, rendering millions of people vulnerable to deportation,” the New York Times reports.

“A federal judge in Texas had ruled the prioritization policy illegal on June 10, a ruling that took effect late Friday after a federal appeals court failed to issue any decision blocking it. The Department of Homeland Security said it effectively had no discretion under the ruling to set priorities for how its agents enforced the nation’s immigrant-removal laws.”

Filed Under: Immigration

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U.S. Border Arrests Rose to Record High in May

June 17, 2022 at 11:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Immigration arrests along the U.S. southern border rose in May to the highest levels ever recorded, as growing numbers of migrants arrived from Turkey, India, Russia and other nations outside the Western Hemisphere,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Immigration

Justices Dismiss Bid to Defend Trump Immigration Plan

June 15, 2022 at 12:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal from several states led by Republicans that had sought to step in to defend a Trump-era immigration policy that the Biden administration has abandoned,” the New York Times reports.

“The court’s decision was one sentence long.”

Filed Under: Immigration

GOP Candidate Details Clandestine Government Flights

June 8, 2022 at 2:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rob Astorino (R), who is running for the Republican nomination for New York governor, “called for an end to clandestine flights by the federal government bringing what he described as illegal immigrants into the area,” the Westchester Business Journal reports.

Astorino said that “after arrival in New York, the immigrants are dispersed into various communities and even taken to rest areas on the New Jersey turnpike where vehicles are waiting to take them to other destinations.”

Said Astorino: ”The flights are accelerating, there is no question about that. We have video. It’s not just little kids with backpacks being reunified with their families.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Migrant Caravan Heads for U.S. Border

June 7, 2022 at 7:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

As many as 6,000 migrants, many from Venezuela, set off from southern Mexico early Monday aiming to reach the United States, timing their journey to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, Reuters reports.

Migration activists said the group could be one of the region’s largest migrant caravans in recent years.

Filed Under: Immigration

Thousands of Migrants Waiting at Border

May 25, 2022 at 6:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As many as 50,000 migrants are waiting in Mexican shelters for a chance to cross the border, hoping to run out the clock on Title 42, the Covid-era rule limiting entry to the U.S.,” Axios reports.

Filed Under: Immigration

Border Crossings Continue to Soar

May 24, 2022 at 6:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Already though, many of the thousands of migrants crossing each day are being let in — of the record 234,088 migrants who arrived in April, nearly half were released into the country for various reasons, including humanitarian exceptions to the public health order and insufficient detention space.”

“In some cases, the government cannot expel people — Cubans and Venezuelans, for example — because it has no diplomatic relations with the country of origin.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Judge Blocks Biden from Ending Covid Border Policy

May 20, 2022 at 5:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from ending Title 42 — a controversial border policy that has allowed officials to rapidly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border nearly 2 million times,” Axios reports.

“The administration had planned to end the policy on Monday.”

“Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have decried the end of the policy — implemented as public health initiative under the Trump administration to block migrants from coming during the pandemic — out of concern that ending Title 42 would exacerbate already record numbers at the border.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Homeland Security May Need $2B for Migrant Surge

May 20, 2022 at 12:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senior Department of Homeland Security officials are concerned they will not have enough funding and resources to cover the recording-breaking number of migrants at the southern border, especially as the CDC prepares to lift Title 42 on Monday, NBC News reports.

Filed Under: Immigration

Quote of the Day

May 19, 2022 at 6:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I put so much time into immigration on reconciliation. It took a year of my legislative life. I have nothing to show for it.”

— Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), quoted by Politico.

Filed Under: Immigration, Senate

Democrats Edge Closer to Giving GOP Border Vote

May 10, 2022 at 1:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Two Senate Democratic leaders say they are willing to give Republicans a vote on reversing President Joe Biden’s move to end pandemic-era border restrictions, provided that the GOP then agrees to move a stalled $10 billion coronavirus aid deal,” Politico reports.

“It’s a notable shift in Democratic strategy, weeks after the Covid aid package was sidetracked amid Republican demands for an amendment vote on Biden’s decision to lift the public health-related border restrictions.”

Filed Under: Health Care, Immigration

QAnon Joins Vigilantes at the Southern Border

May 10, 2022 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Mr. Frank, a QAnon influencer whose Facebook page in recent months has shown him pictured with such conservative celebrities as Donald J. Trump Jr., Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, has fashioned his team into a new style of border enforcers, motivated not so much by halting immigration as by guarding the country from other perceived threats — in this case, an unfounded conspiracy theory that migrant children are being funneled into pedophilia rings.”

Filed Under: Conspiracy Theories, Immigration

1 in 3 Fears Immigrants Influence U.S. Elections

May 9, 2022 at 1:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new AP-NORC poll finds about 1 in 3 U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace native-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.

“About 3 in 10 also worry that more immigration is causing native-born Americans to lose their economic, political and cultural influence… Republicans are more likely than Democrats to fear a loss of influence because of immigration, 36% to 27%.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Immigration Clamp Down Causing Labor Shortage

May 7, 2022 at 5:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage that’s partly fueled by a drop-off in immigration, which ground to a halt during the pandemic, the AP reports.

By some estimates, the U.S. now has 2 million fewer immigrants than it would have if the pace had stayed the same.

Filed Under: Economy, Immigration

Texas Governor May Declare ‘Invasion’

May 2, 2022 at 7:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) “has discussed enforcing greater state authority over control of the border, allowing state police to arrest and deport migrants, powers that usually lie with federal agencies,” the Times of London reports.

“To do this, Abbott could declare the migrant crisis an invasion in accordance with an article in the US Constitution which says that individual states cannot engage in war unless they are ‘actually invaded.’”

Filed Under: Immigration

Republicans Falsely Claim Migrants Are Voting

April 28, 2022 at 3:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Republican leaders and candidates are increasingly claiming without basis that unauthorized immigrants are gaining access to the ballot box.”

“Voter fraud is exceptionally rare, and allegations that widespread numbers of undocumented immigrants are voting have been repeatedly discredited. Yet that fabricated message — capitalizing on a concocted threat to advance Mr. Trump’s broader lie of stolen elections — is now finding receptive audiences in more than a dozen states across the country, including several far from the U.S.-Mexico border.”

Filed Under: Immigration

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