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Mar 30
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House Passes 2 Bills Aimed At Overhauling The Immigration System

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House Passes 2 Bills Aimed At Overhauling The Immigration System 

Barbara Sprunt & Claudia Grisales, NPR (March 18, 2021)

The approval of two immigration bills in the House, the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, address status issues for agricultural workers and undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. Both are promising adjustments to the U.S. immigration system, signaling the beginning of renewed immigration proposals introduced by President Biden. However, with GOP pushback on such legislation, each bill’s future in the Senate is uncertain.

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Mar 30
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More Than 100,000 Kids Could Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What’s Going On?

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More Than 100,000 Kids Could Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What’s Going On? 

Isabela Dias, Mother Jones (March 19, 2021)

To bring context to the influx of children and teens arriving at our border, which increased by over 60% in February and where, on average, 500 children are arriving every day, a human rights lawyer and vice president for policy and advocacy at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Jennifer Podkul, discusses what we know about the arriving unaccompanied minors, why they are being held longer in detention, and what the Biden administration is doing to assist in placing children in the care of their sponsors.

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Mar 30
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How Foster Families Are Stepping Up to House Unaccompanied Children Arriving at the U.S.-Mexico Border

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How Foster Families Are Stepping Up to House Unaccompanied Children Arriving at the U.S.-Mexico Border 

Jasmine Aguilera, TIME Magazine (March 19, 2021)

Focusing on the story of one foster family who has taken in immigrant children who arrived unaccompanied at the U.S.-Mexico border, this article uses their experiences to address the broader issues that organizations are facing in rapidly trying to find temporary homes for children in the aftermath of policies like Title 42 which rapidly expelled children rather than reuniting them with sponsors in the United States.

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Mar 30
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U.S. races to find bed space for migrant children as number of unaccompanied minors in government custody hits 15,500

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U.S. races to find bed space for migrant children as number of unaccompanied minors in government custody hits 15,500 

Camilo Montoya-Galves, NBC News (March 21, 2021)

By the end of March, the United States will be currently housing 15,500 children. 5,000 of these children are being kept in a Border Patrol tent facility well past the 72-hour limit prescribed by U.S. law. Due to limited bed space and the increasing number of unaccompanied minors, the sole refugee agency with HSS has had to open makeshift facilities to get children away from Border Patrol facilities. Thus far, the Biden administration has refused to expel these children back to their home countries, calling the previous administration’s practice of doing so inhumane.

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Mar 30
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Expelled from U.S. at night, migrant families weigh next steps

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Expelled from U.S. at night, migrant families weigh next steps

Associated Press (March 28, 2021)

Due to pandemic constraints, immigrants are being expelled from the United States into the city of Reynosa, Mexico, in the middle of the night, leaving many families left to wonder what to do. Further pandemic restrictions mean that parents often make the painful decision to send their children across the border alone as children under 7 are currently allowed to pursue asylum. One mother from Guatemala discussed sending her son across the border alone, stating simply, “We’re in God’s hands.”

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Feb 25
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Biden wants to undo Trump’s family separation legacy. It won’t be easy.

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Biden wants to undo Trump’s family separation legacy. It won’t be easy. 

Sabrina Rodriguez, Politico (January 31, 2021) 

While many advocates and legal representatives are heralding the Biden administration’s move to create a task force dedicated to reunifying families separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy, many are remarking that it is just the beginning of addressing the harm of Trump’s policies. In particular, the ACLU, which has provided legal counsel to many separated families, wants the current administration to provide separated families some form of legal status and arrange funding to assist those families via psychological counseling and medical care. 

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Feb 25
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Separated at the border, reunited, then separated again: For migrant families, another trauma

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Separated at the border, reunited, then separated again: For migrant families, another trauma 

Kevin Sieff, Washington Post (January 31, 2021) 

Despite a federal court order requiring the former Trump administration to reunite families separated under their zero-tolerance policy, many families face multiple separations as parents were reunited and released without legal status. While a great deal of attention has been paid to the initial family separations and reunions, little focus has been paid to the complex pathway towards citizenship beyond reunification. Without a clear understanding of their status, many families have been retraumatized through re-separation or the potential of being separated at any moment. 

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Feb 25
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Revealed: US citizen newborns sent to Mexico under Trump-era border ban

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Revealed: US citizen newborns sent to Mexico under Trump-era border ban 

Tanvi Misra, The Guardian (February 05, 2021) 

A joint investigation by the Fuller Project and the Guardian has found that at least 11 immigrant women who gave birth in the United States were sent to Mexican border towns without U.S. birth certificates for their newborn children. The Trump administration hailed these rapid expulsions of immigrants under Title 42 as “tremendously effective,” and almost 200,000 have occurred in the first 2021 fiscal year alone. While promising to review Title 42, the Biden administration has been lax in doing so thus far. 

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Feb 25
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Biden immigration policy looks beyond reversing Trump

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Biden immigration policy looks beyond reversing Trump 

Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill (February 07, 2021) 

A trio of executive orders recently signed by President Biden motioned to his administration’s desire to undo some of the regressive policy characteristic of both his predecessor President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama. These executive orders include forming a task force devoted to reunifying families separated at the border, reviewing the Trump administration’s public charge rule, and a reexamination of the asylum and naturalization process. Immigration experts and advocates have praised the Biden administration’s apparent focus on aid over enforcement in their handling of immigration issues, particularly in their emphasis on understanding the root causes of immigration, particularly from the Northern Triangle. 

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Feb 25
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The Trauma of Being Stuck at the US-Mexico Border

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The Trauma of Being Stuck at the US-Mexico Border 

Emily Green, VICE (February 10, 2021) 

A mental health crisis is emerging among some 60,000 asylum seekers who were forced to stay in Mexico under the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) policy as their cases are processed in the United States. These individuals are stranded in some of Mexico’s most dangerous cities. Their compounding trauma has become so apparent that the organization Doctors Without Borders has begun offering therapy sessions to people, roughly a quarter of whom are children, living in an encampment along the Rio Grande. Separated from their loved ones, existing in a perpetual state of uncertainty over their futures, and vulnerable to being kidnapped, extorted, or killed, many believe that this mental health crisis will continue even after the policy is changed. 

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