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Baltimore-Based Lutheran Immigration And Refugee Services Helps Move Unaccompanied Minors From Facilities To Foster Homes
Annie Rose Ramos, CBS Baltimore
For months now, we’ve seen images of federal facilities packed with thousands of unaccompanied minors at a time when there are a record number of children reaching the southern border, most coming from Central America. The sheer volume of children is overwhelming the federal government’s resources with thousands of children…
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Biden's first 100 days: How U.S. immigration policy has — and hasn't — changed
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News
President Biden came into office pledging to usher in a new era of U.S. immigration policy by rolling back his predecessor's hard-line agenda, proposing to legalize undocumented immigrants, expanding legal immigration and making America a safe haven for refugees. During his first 100 days as president, Mr. Biden halted border wall construction and ended some Trump-era…
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Biden should airlift vulnerable people out of Afghanistan before US forces withdrawal, refugee group urges
Charles Davis, Insider
Before the US government leaves Afghanistan, it needs to find a way to protect the many people who will be left behind, even if that requires the same mass-scale airlifts that accompanied the fall of Saigon. That's according to the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), a human rights group that lobbies for the displaced. In recommendations…
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4 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into ICE’s Mishandling of Covid-19
Isabelle Niu and Emily Rhyne, The New York Times
The United States currently has the largest immigration detention system in the world. On any given day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, holds tens of thousands of people in about 200 facilities across the country. And throughout the pandemic, these facilities have become some of the most dangerous places in the United States when it comes to…
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Bipartisan Senate group seeks immigration deals
Alayna Treene, Axios
A bipartisan group of senators that met privately Wednesday agreed to have their staffs draft a document outlining incremental immigration changes so they "can build from there," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told Axios. Why it matters: The Republicans and Democrats recognize that Congress has failed numerous times to pass comprehensive reform, so now they're looking for a starting point amid a migrant surge at…
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Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protectionsJulie Watson, AP News
No nation offers asylum or other legal protections to people displaced specifically because of climate change. President Joe Biden’s administration is studying the idea, and climate migration is expected to be discussed at his first climate summit, held virtually Thursday and Friday. The day the summit starts, Democratic Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts plans to reintroduce legislation…
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Why the White House wanted to avoid the refugee issueNatasha Korecki, Laura Barrón-López and Nahal Toosi, POLITICO
Avoiding an escalation of conservative attacks against President Joe Biden’s immigration policies was one of the factors the White House considered when it initially decided to keep his predecessor’s controversial cap on refugees. Though the issues are separate, administration officials predicted raising the number of refugees, as Biden had promised to in…
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ICE, CBP to stop using ‘illegal alien’ and ‘assimilation’ under new Biden administration order
Maria Sacchetti, The Washington Post
The Biden administration has ordered U.S. immigration enforcement agencies to stop using terms such as “alien,” “illegal alien” and “assimilation” when referring to immigrants in the United States, a rebuke of terms widely used under the Trump administration. The change was detailed in memos sent Monday to department heads at Immigration and Customs…
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Climate change is a major factor behind increased migration at U.S. southern border, experts sayHannah Miao, CNBC
Hurricanes Eta and Iota struck Central America last November, bringing torrential rain, flash floods, landslides and crop damage across Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. An estimated 7.3 million people in the region were affected by the twin hurricanes as of December, according to the United Nations. The impact of the hurricanes is one of many…
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Kristi Noem’s posturing on ‘illegal’ immigration spotlights a common misrepresentationPhilip Bump, The Washington Post
South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) is ambitious. She’s leaned into her hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic, earning her outsize media attention given the size of her state, though at some obvious cost to South Dakotans. She embraced former president Donald Trump, endearing herself to his base. And she’s been eager to leverage right-wing…
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