Monthly Archives: August 2023

Not a lot of immigration news today, so here’s a Minnesota State Fair immigrant news round-up, from refugees to gochujang. With a fairly slow news week (at least for immigration articles), I’m taking the next few days off from blogging. … Continue reading →

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, running for president on a crazier-than-thou platform, proposes starting a war. That’s right: he pledged drone strikes across the border and a U.S. naval blockade of Mexican ports. Other MAGA Republicans are competing in crazy: Senator Tom … Continue reading →

Once more: court orders are disregarded by the Border Patrol, endangering and immiserating immigrants. During the 114-degree heat of this summer, the Border Patrol held immigrants in outdoor cages in Arizona. Summer and winter, overcrowding and grossly unsanitary conditions endanger … Continue reading →

A 187-page report from the ACLU and other groups charges that the privately operated Torrance County Detention Center is sabotaging asylum seekers and setting them up for deportation back to countries where they face danger and persecution. The detention center … Continue reading →

Last week, Mexico’s immigration agency and Catholic relief groups opened a new, temporary, outdoor shelter that can hold 850 people. The rudimentary shelter will not be able to serve all of the migrants now encamped in various parts of Matamoros.  … Continue reading →

FWD.us just issued a new report linking rural economic recovery and immigration. The report includes an interactive calculator showing population decline by state and county. (See illustration above for Minnesota rural population figures.) Immigration can reverse rural population decline, especially … Continue reading →

U.S. immigration policy is in the courts this week. Two major cases will come up for argument, though decisions may be delayed. The first is the Biden administration’s challenge to Texas’s mid-river floating barrier, which involves orange buoys and saw blades. … Continue reading →

The United States will offer 18 months of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to any Ukrainians here as of August 16, making an additional 166,700 eligible, in addition to about 26,000 who already have TPS. Other programs, such as humanitarian parole and … Continue reading →

Nicaraguans who were in the United States when Hurricane Mitch hit back in 1999 were allowed to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Those who have fled political persecution by the current repressive regime are not allowed to apply for … Continue reading →

DHS’s own investigators uncovered barbaric and inhumane conditions in its detention centers from 2017-2019. They documented their findings in a 1600-page report. For three years, the Trump and Biden administrations fought to keep the report secret. NPR persisted–and now the … Continue reading →