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LATEST ANALYSIS
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Borderland: The Line Within Takes Viewers Through CBP’s Raid on a Humanitarian Aid Camp [[link removed]]
Borderland takes viewers through a gripping narrative of how immigration enforcement agencies—from the U.S.-Mexico border to places well within our nation’s interior—have created what the film calls the “border industrial complex,” a system “that transforms the suffering of immigrant lives into corporate profit.”
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
As of 2022, there were over 687,000 New Americans in Michigan, making up 6.9% of the state’s population. Immigrants represented 8.4% of Michigan’s working-age population and employed labor force.
In 2022, immigrant households in the state earned $31.3 billion in income and contributed $67.8 billion to the area’s gross domestic product (GDP), or 9.9% the total GDP for that year.
Last week, the American Immigration Council released research that highlights the crucial role immigrants play in Michigan’s population growth, labor force, business creation, and consumer spending power. The new report was prepared in partnership with the Michigan Global Talent Coalition.
Read more: Contributions of New Americans in Michigan [[link removed]]
ACROSS THE NATION
Records access is critical for noncitizens in removal proceedings. When they don’t have the same information as the government on their immigration proceedings, it's nearly impossible for them to have a fair hearing or obtain relief.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) provides two avenues for noncitizens and their lawyers to obtain records of proceedings: (1) Submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or (2) Requesting the record of proceedings via a recently implemented e-mail system.
But little information is available about how EOIR processes requests for records.
Last Wednesday, the Council filed a FOIA request with EOIR to obtain information about how the agency processes requests for immigration records and how it decides to provide the public with information in its FOIA library.
Read more: Seeking Records from Immigration Courts about Processing FOIA and Records of Proceedings Requests [[link removed]]
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Prosecuting people for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border may be good politics, but it won’t improve the situation at our southern border in the long-term. It will only drive people further into the arms of human smugglers and into more dangerous routes in their efforts to make it to the U.S.”
– Jorge Loweree, Managing Director of Programs at the American Immigration Council [[link removed]]
FURTHER READING
Michigan Advance: Immigrants can help with population and labor challenges in Michigan, report finds [[link removed]]
Slate: Texas’ Controversial Immigration Law Would Be a Train Wreck—and Not Just for Immigrants [[link removed]]
U.S. News & World Report: Biden vs. the Border: How the President Has Handled Immigration as the Election Looms [[link removed]]
Arizona Central: Few immigrants have interpreters like me in court, and that hurts us all [[link removed]]
Houston Chronicle: Texas's immigration dilemma: Businesses need workers but border crisis 'eats up the oxygen' [[link removed]]
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