With less than 50 days left in office, President Donald Trump appears to be rushing to implement immigration changes. The Biden administration could unravel many of them — but the latest developments add to what will alr ...
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Immigration cruelty didn’t start with Trump. Will it end under Biden?
Immigrants and their advocates breathed a sigh of relief when President Trump lost his bid for reelection, but a return to Obama-era immigration policies should not be cause for celebration. Many of Trump’s harshest chan ...
Op-Ed: The crime against migrant children that Biden needs to repair
More than 5,400 children have been detained and separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration since 2017. Many families remain separated, and the violence of this policy has been comp ...
How Biden could reverse Trump’s nativist legacy on the border
The border has been the focal point of President Donald Trump’s restrictionist immigration agenda. Beyond erecting more than 400 miles of border wall, he has put up elaborate barriers to asylum and humanitarian protectio ...
Biden pledged to undo Trump’s immigration policies. It will take time.
Yes, Biden will be able to rescind some policies through the stroke of a pen on Day 1. But scores of others face massive hurdles, according to a dozen people on both sides of the issue. A lengthy, cumbersome regulatory p ...
Proposed changes to asylum regs could address biggest immigration problem: the court backlog
There is still time to improve it — and the rulemaking process provides people who want to do something more than just write angry op-eds with an opportunity to share their ideas with a large audience of interested parti ...
Editorial: Trump’s latest efforts to sabotage asylum should remind you why he has to go
The proper fix here is comprehensive immigration reform. That Congress — well before Trump — has failed to enact such reform is a testament to its general dysfunction. Trump has, incongruously enough, displayed how badly ...
Court Halts Deportation of Migrant Boy in Challenge to Border Closure
While a judge reviews the Trump administration’s closure of the land borders to halt the spread of the coronavirus, a 16-year-old Honduran asylum seeker can stay in the United States. “This is a horrendous move by the T ...
Under Trump border rules, U.S. has granted refuge to just two people since late March, records show
The decision also must be approved by a USCIS supervisor, and applicants do not have the ability to appeal the decisions to U.S. immigration courts. The most recent CBP enforcement statistics show the agency expelled 14 ...
Trump Ramps Up Expulsions of Migrant Youth, Citing Virus
Originally published by The New York Times HOUSTON — The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber into the dense brush of Texas. Many are teens who left Central America on their own; oth ...
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