Erica Bryant Associate Director of Writing VERA Institute of Justice PHOTO: VERAErica Bryant, Associate Director of Writing: https://www.vera.org/news/debunking-the-lies-politicians-say-about-immigrants As critical elections approach, voters are being bombarded with harmful myths, misrepresentations, and outright lies about people who are immigrants. More than 45 million people living in the United States were born elsewhere. Despite their proven contributions to communities nationwide, people seeking office call them “invaders” and make campaign promises for the “largest domestic deportation ..read more

Austin Kocher, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor TRAC-Syracuse PHOTO: Syracuse U.From Professor Austin Kocher @ Linkedin: New Report! “Two-Thirds of Court Asylum Applicants Found Legally Entitled to Remain.” Out of 1M+ asylum cases decided by immigration judges over the past decade, 685,956 (66%) were legally entitled to remain in the United States due to asylum or other relief. https://trac.syr.edu/reports/742/ *************************** Remember, this is in a system that has, over decades, been intentionally rigged, manipulated, and skewed AGAINST legal asylum seekers, particularly those ..read more

Rev. Craig Mousin Ministry & Higher Education Wellington United Church of Christ U. of Illinois College of Law Greater Chicago Area PHOTO: DePaul U. WebsiteListen here: https://www.lawfulpod.com/restrictions-to-an-already-compromised-asylum-system/ MAY 17, 2024 Restrictions To An Already Compromised Asylum System This week we talk about a proposed rule from the Biden Administration that may change asylum proceedures and allow adjudicators to turn away people without proper research on their background. Read the proposed rule: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024 ..read more

Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase Jeffrey S. Chase Blog Coordinator & Chief Spokesperson, Round Table of Former Immigration Judges https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/insights/legal/immigration/b/insidenews/posts/proposed-asylum-bar-regs-are-at-odds-with-international-law-and-why-that-matters Proposed Asylum Bar Regs Are At Odds With International Law (And Why That Matters) In 2003, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees published Guidelines for applying the bars to asylum known internationally as the “exclusion clauses” (because they exclude an applicant from being recognized as a ref ..read more

Doris Meissner Senior Fellow and Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program Migration Policy Institute (“MPI”) PHOTO: MPI HUNDREDS GATHER FOR MPI’S GALA CELEBRATION OF THE INCOMPARABLE DORIS MEISSNER, THE CONSUMMATE “PRACTICAL SCHOLAR/PUBLIC SERVANT!” By Paul Wickham Schmidt Exclusive May 16, 2024 Washington, D.C. — More than 300 “movers and shakers” of the migration world came together last night at the Intercontinental Hotel — Wharf in Washington D.C., to recognize and celebrate the continuing life’s work and leadership of Doris M. Meissner, former Commissioner of Immigration and a Just ..read more

Nicole Narea Senior Reporter, Politics & Society Vox.com https://apple.news/AAc884xMISF-k-4-Wd1HGAw America’s misunderstood border crisis, in 8 charts For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the US’s broken immigration system are often overlooked. There is a crisis on America’s border with Mexico. The number of people arriving there has skyrocketed in the years since the pandemic, when crossings fell drastically. The scenes coming from the border, and from many US cities that have been touched by the migrant crisis, have helped ..read more

Here’s the link to the official announcement by EOIR: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1351546/dl?inline ******************************************* Among the “exceptions” to the trend: Jenny Vi Beverly, Immigration Judge, Lowell Immigration Court Jenny Vi Beverly was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in May 2024. Judge Beverly earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2010 from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Juris Doctor in 2013 from the University of Maine School of Law. From 2014 to 2024, she was in private practice as an attorney partner from 2014 to 2017 and ..read more

  https://wmimmigrationclinicblog.com/2024/05/07/our-clients-story-sang-instead-of-whispered-immigration-clinic-students-represent-client-in-asylum-trial/ From the William & Mary Law School Immigration Clinic Blog:   “Our Client’s Story Sang Instead of Whispered”: Immigration Clinic Students Represent Client in Asylum Trial 7MAY 2024 Caitlin Parets, J.D. ’24 (left) and Alison Domonoske, J.D. ’24 (right) after their trial in Immigration Court (Spring 2024). During the last week of Law School classes, Immigration Clinic Students Caitlin Parets, J.D. Class of 2024 and Alison Domonos ..read more

NBC’s Maggie Vespa enjoys “on-site” interview with David Fritz, President of the Potosi Brewery Foundation. https://www.today.com/video/small-wisconsin-town-is-revitalized-by-potosi-brewery-s-revival-210757701517 May 12, 2024 The small town of Potosi, Wisconsin, has been given a second wind after the revival of its historic brewery that is the pride of the community and delivering the taste of a comeback. NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports in this week’s Sunday Spotlight. ******************** Nice assignment, Maggie!  See the complete video at the above link. “Good Old Potosi” was on the “low-b ..read more

Most experts view the Biden Administration’s approach to asylum, human rights, and racial justice in America as disturbingly short-sighted! Forcing “natural allies” to sue you is a huge boon to Trump and the nativist right!  Mr. Magoo PHOTO: Gord Webster Creative Commons LicenseFrom LinkedIn: BREAKING NEWS: Al Otro Lado, the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, and Texas Civil Rights Project, have filed a lawsuit compelling Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to release information on its policies and practices relating to CBP One and its adherence to laws preventing discrimina ..read more