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Could a Migrants’ Bill of Rights Provide a Blueprint for Migration Policy in the Americas?
There is a unique opportunity for new U.S. leadership to employ a rights framework both to remedy abuses and lock in collaboration on building a new migration policy architecture…
COVID-19 and International Law Series: States’ Obligations to Refugees and Migrants in Detention
Whether informally quarantined in camps or formally confined in overcrowded detention centers, refugees and migrants in detention are extraordinarily vulnerable in a pandemic.…
Mass Deportations to Cameroon Undermine US Foreign Policy and Violate International Law
Trump’s immigration policy increasingly undermines U.S. foreign policy goals, as seen with the recent deportation of Cameroonian asylum-seekers.
Good Governance Papers No. 9: Building an Effective Human Rights-Based Foreign Policy
Ninth essay in a series of top experts exploring proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government, public integrity, and the rule of law.
Whistleblower: DHS Suppressed Reports on Central America and Inflated Risk of Terrorist Border-Crossers
Brian Murphy’s Whistleblower complaint confirms: White House officials and political appointees in federal agencies hid carefully investigated and proven facts and substituted…
Dispatches from a Racialized Border: The Invisible Threat
We carry the border on our skin, in our language, through our religion. Anyone on the other side of that border — whose skin is Black or Brown; who speaks to their loved ones…
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…
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.
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…
The Trump Administration’s Indefensible Legal Defense of Its Asylum Ban
"The Trump administration has finally made public its legal justification for its decision to halt asylum processing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is embarrassingly bad.…
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:…
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…