Monthly Archives: December 2022

The Supreme Court granted the petition of 19 states to suspend a lower court order ending the Title 42 bar to asylum seekers and other immigrants. The order will be suspended until the Supreme Court hears and decides on the … Continue reading →

One more Congress has adjourned, after utterly failing to address the increasingly dysfunctional U.S. immigration system.  [Los Angeles Times] “‘I feel like they sometimes forget that they’re dealing with real people’s lives,” [Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, deputy director of federal … Continue reading →

Today’s good news/bad news story comes from El Paso, Texas, across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency–not from fear of migrants, but from concern for their safety. The mayor said … Continue reading →

December 21 should have been the day that the Title 42 ban on asylum seekers ended. Instead, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ordered it to remain in force, at least temporarily. The Biden administration response, filed on December 20, asked … Continue reading →

An inspiring story comes from Arizona, where local organizers banded together against Governor Ducey’s illegal border wall and his heavy-handed intimidation—and stopped the wall. Finally, the feds joined in and sued Ducey for his illegal destruction of habitat, roads, and … Continue reading →

The Kyrsten Sinema-Thom Tillis “bi-partisan immigration deal” failed. No big surprise. Synema and Tillis never reached an agreement because Republicans in the Senate refused to agree to anything, even with draconian anti-asylum provisions included in the supposed deal. The final … Continue reading →

Is the Biden administration planning to follow in Trump’s footsteps and deny the possibility of applying for asylum to migrants who are eligible under U.S. law? So far, the reports are based only on unnamed sources, but the proposal under … Continue reading →

Tick, tock. Still waiting for the Senate to vote on the American Dream and Promise Act, the Farm Workforce Authorization Act, the Afghan Adjustment Act. More than 1,500 migrants, many from Nicaragua, waded across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico … Continue reading →

Time for the Senate to vote for the American Dream and Promise Act! Stop stalling—Dreamers, and all of us, need action NOW! [San Diego Union Tribune] “Ending DACA would upend not just the lives of the immigrant families directly affected … Continue reading →

What does prioritizing enforcement mean? And how is the work of a 14-year-old batboy for the Savannah Cardinals like the Biden administration’s immigration policy? Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recalls how he reversed a strict enforcement decision that led … Continue reading →