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LATEST ANALYSIS
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District Court in Texas Allows CHNV Parole Program to Continue [[link removed]]
Last week, a decision by a federal district court in Texas keeps in place the parole program set up by the Biden administration to allow 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to enter the United States legally each month. Judge Drew Tipton of the Southern District of Texas dismissed the claims brought by several states challenging the legality of the CHNV parole program. Judge Tipton held that the state of Texas, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, did not show it would be harmed by the CHNV policy because it had successfully reduced overall border crossings.
Differences in State Sunshine Laws Can Threaten Transparency Around Immigration Detention and Enforcement [[link removed]]
The main way in which the public can access information about what the federal government is doing is through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). However, laws that allow the public to get state public records, also known as sunshine laws or public records laws, are different state by state. State and local government entities often interpret their respective state sunshine laws differently. As a result, requests for the exact same information can lead to records produced by an entity in one state and shielded from the public in another and, in some cases, released by one local government entity but not produced by another in the same state.
Despite Progress, the Tragedy of Family Separation Can Never Be Undone [[link removed]]
Six years ago, a man came to the U.S./Mexico border with his five-year-old daughter, looking for safety in the United States. But this was 2018—the era of family separation. As soon as the pair arrived at the border, Customs and Border Protection forcibly took the man’s daughter away. They sent him to a detention center, and his five-year-old was sent by herself to a separate facility on the other side of the country, 2,000 miles away. He wouldn’t be able to speak to her again for nearly a month.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“When we talk about how diverse the population of [migrants] coming in is... It’s not limited to people in this hemisphere... The route through the Darien in Panama has become a fairly well-established smuggling route for both people coming up from South America... and people flying into South America from Africa, from South Asia. And all of that means it’s really, really hard to make blanket assertions about [which] people do or do not qualify for asylum.”
– Dara Lind, Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council [[link removed]]
FURTHER READING
Inside NOVA: Immigrant to Northern Virginia explains what it’s really like to cross the border [[link removed]]
Politifact: Rubio overstates effect of Biden immigration actions, falsely claims he’s not detaining migrants [[link removed]]
Lewiston Sun Journal: Marwo Sougue’s parents saved her from becoming a child bride [[link removed]]
FedScoop: CBP leaning into biometrics on controversial app, raising concerns from immigrant rights advocates [[link removed]]
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