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Migrants walk together along the U.S./Mexican border wall as they look to turn themselves over to the U.S. Border Patrol as they seek asylum in the United States on June 04, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.

Trump’s Latest Assault on Asylum Has Nothing to Do with National Security or Public Health

Last Thursday the Trump administration issued the latest in a long line of administrative rules that unlawfully ban and punish asylum seekers and others pursuing related humanitarian…
A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

Forced Family Separation During COVID-19: Preventing Torture and Inhumane Treatment in Crisis

The US government is threatening forced separation of migrant families again, this time with the added coercion of risking COVID exposure if they stay together.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) plaintiffs come out of court as immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019.
Asylum seekers wait for news outside El Chaparral port of entry on the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 19, 2020. It is raining and some carry umbrellas.

Turned Away: The MS St. Louis and Its Echoes Today

In early June 1939, more than 900 passengers—almost all Jewish—sailed near the Florida coast aboard the MS St. Louis. Fleeing persecution by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party in…
A person on a ship faces a migrant boat-tent as the ship moves closer towards it. The sky is dark and the life boat tent is lit up to give an orange glow.

Tents at Sea: How Greek Officials Use Rescue Equipment for Illegal Deportations

Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Itamar Mann expose the latest Greek abuse of migrants: forcing them onto rafts and leaving them adrift in the Aegean.
Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller looks on as Trump hosts a round-table discussion on border security and safe communities with State, local, and community leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 11, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Trump’s COVID-19 Immigration Proclamation May Be Legal, But It’s Still an Abuse of Power

The president may have power to suspend immigration given the Supreme Court's green light. The key question is about abuse of that power.
Asylum seekers in face masks wait to enter a US port of entry.

There is No Public Health Rationale for a Categorical Ban on Asylum Seekers

"We asked six infectious disease epidemiology experts to respond to the CDC's public health justifications for closing the border to asylum seekers." Their unanimous response:…
An asylum seeker staying at the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, sweeps the floor on April 3, 2020. Camping tents are pitched in rows.

Coronavirus Border Expulsions: CDC’s Assault on Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Minors

Relying on obscure 1944 provision that provides no such authority, CDC tries to block all asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors in violation of congressional statutes, writes…
Children from the Anapra area stand on one side of the border wall while group of religious presbyters lead a prayer on the other side of the boarder wall between Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, US, on May 3, 2018.

Revised Justice Department Policy Still Silences Immigration Judges

Some of the sharpest critics of the Trump administration’s immigration policies are the former immigration judges who were once charged with enforcing them. But there’s a reason…
Demonstrators holds up placards and banners while demonstrating, asking for Yahya Jammeh, the former President of the Gambia, to be brought to justice, in Banjul on January 25, 2020. One of the signs says, "No Place for Enforced Disappearance in Gambia."

Senators Call for Prosecution of Gambian Paramilitary Fighter in US Custody

Rare opportunity to criminally prosecute a person implicated in extremely grave human rights abuses in a U.S. court.
Central American immigrants walk between a newly built Bollard-style border fence and the older "legacy" fence after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico on February 01, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.

Building Walls and Deporting People to “Safe” Countries Is Not Deterrence, It’s Defense

Labeling highly militarized, defense-based policies as forms of migration “deterrence” masks their true nature.
A Turkish military convoy passes through the town of Binnish in Syrias northwestern province of Idlib, near the Syria-Turkey border on February 10, 2020.

American Policy Paralysis in the Middle East Strikes Idlib

While observers of the Middle East focus on the spiraling escalation of US-Iran tensions, a humanitarian crisis with potentially far greater consequences is rapidly unfolding in…
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