In response to growing pressure from advocacy groups, the U.S. government has ended its practice of transporting migrant families who crossed the border in south Texas to El Paso and San Diego, where they would then expel them to Mexico.
This article discusses the Biden administration’s approach to measuring data and statistics about migration and enforcement at the border.
Attorneys have successfully located 54 parents of migrant children who were separated at the US-Mexico border during the Trump administration, but are still working to find and contact the parents of 391 children.
The Biden administration has announced that it will extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for 54,000 Haitian immigrants living in the U.S. by 18 months, and it will allow tens of thousands of other eligible Haitians to apply for relief.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has done away with a plan to house up to 5,000 migrant children under the age of 12 at the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso amid concerns of subpar conditions and prolonged stays.
Despite ongoing pressure to undo the Title 42 policy, which enables immigration officials to turn away migrants due to COVID-19, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the Biden administration’s continued use of this policy.
The governor of Maryland has vetoed bills that would have limited Maryland state and local governments’ cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
The ACLU is calling on the Biden administration to provide access to COVID-19 vaccines for immigrants in ICE detention facilities, whose congregate settings greatly increase the spread of COVID-19.
The Temporary Family Visitation Act, which would create a new visa type allowing U.S. citizens and permanent residents to petition for family members to temporarily visit the U.S., has been introduced to Congress by bipartisan leaders.
thening Border Families: Community and Policy Responses to Serving Immigrant Families with Young Children in Doña Ana County, NMThis report details the results and recommendations of the first phase of a community-based participatory research project which aimed to explore the accessibility and quality of services as well as barriers and facilitators to service receipt among immigrant families with young children in the New Mexico borderlands. It is also available in Spanish here.
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