Migration News 

Supreme Court won’t decide yet if Trump can exclude undocumented immigrants when allocating congressional seats
Robert Barnes, Washington Post 
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a case challenging to President Trump’s authority to exclude undocumented immigrants when determining the size of each state’s congressional delegation, saying it was premature to decide the question at this point. The court’s unsigned opinion said the constitutional and legal questions surrounding such action should wait until it is clear if Trump will be able to make good on his plan. It is unclear whether the Census Bureau can come up with the population figures Trump seeks before he leaves office.

Trump has finalized a controversial agreement to deport asylum seekers to El Salvador
Nicole Narea, Vox 
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it’s ready to implement a controversial international agreement to return asylum seekers arriving on the US-Mexico border back to El Salvador. The Asylum Cooperative Agreement, signed in September 2019 with the approval of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, is one of three such pacts that the US has made in an effort to discourage regional migration. The other agreements are with Honduras and Guatemala, although only the agreement with Guatemala has gone into effect so far, leading to the deportations of nearly 1,000 Hondurans and Salvadorans.

Biden order to halt border wall project would save U.S. $2.6 billion, Pentagon estimates show
Josh Dawsey and Nick Miroff, Washington Post 
The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if President-elect Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by The Washington Post. Biden told reporters this summer he would not build “another foot” of the border barriers that became a symbol of the Trump presidency and one of the most expensive federal infrastructure projects in U.S. history. But the financial implications of a decision to stop work — including the costs to the government it will potentially incur — have not been publicly disclosed.

DHS Preps Rule To Collect More Biometrics From Immigrants
Suzanne Monyak, Law360
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday advanced a proposal to expand biometrics collections for immigrants and their American sponsors, amid criticism that the policy would threaten privacy rights. The department sent the finalized version of the rule to the White House budget office, paving the way for the policy to potentially take effect before the end of President Donald Trump's time in office as part of the administration's lame-duck push to cement its immigration agenda.

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The Most Inspiring Immigrants Of 2020
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NBC

Why Millions of Americans Still Can't Get Coronavirus Relief Funds
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