Immigration Reading, 4/16/20
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. State Department Visa Bulletin update
2. CRS reports on entry restrictions, special visas, visa waiver, TPS, and backlog
3. GAO reports on CBP management of temp TX facility and TPS decision communications
4. FRB-Dallas report on the immigration and prospects for future U.S. economic growth
5. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Marisela Inestroza-Antonelli v. Barr
6. Canada: Statistics on cross-border travel for March
7. Sweden: Population projections
8. Australia: Statistics on overseas arrivals and departures for February
9. N.Z.: Statistics on international migration for February
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
10. SCOTUSblog report on NY request for temporary pause of "public charge" rule
11. Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration index
12. TRAC reports on prosecutions for harboring, removal proceedings and rural communities, detainees lacking criminal records
13. Two new working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research
14. New report and feature from the Migration Policy Institute
15. Two new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
16. Five new papers from the Social Science Research Network
17. Twenty new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
18. "Data for Global Migration Center Immigration Fact"
19. "Health Profile and Health Care Access of Mexican Migration Flows Traversing the Northern Border of Mexico"
20. U.K.: New briefing paper from MigrationWatch
21. U.K.: New report from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
22. "Towards Safer and More Productive Migration for South Asia"
BOOKS
23. Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America
24. Permeable Borders: History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States
25. North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
26. Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration
27. No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants
28. What Do We Owe to Refugees?
29. Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
JOURNALS
30. Comparative Migration Studies
31. CSEM Newsletter
32. Ethnic and Racial Studies
33. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
34. Journal on Migration and Human Security
35. Mobilities
36. Rural Migration News
1.
Visa Bulletin Status Update
April 2020
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https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin.html
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New from the Congressional Research Service
Entry Restrictions at the Northern and Southern Borders in Response to COVID-19
CRS Legal Sidebar, April 2, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/LSB10439.pdf
Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Programs
Updated April 2, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43725.pdf
Adding Countries to the Visa Waiver Program: Effects on National Security and Tourism
April 1, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R46300.pdf
Temporary Protected Status: Overview and Current Issues
Updated April 1, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS20844.pdf
The Employment-Based Immigration Backlog
March 26, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R46291.pdf
Immigration: Public Charge
CRS In Focus, March 19, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/IF11467.pdf
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New from the General Accountability Office
Border Security: U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Management of a Temporary Facility in Texas Raised Concerns about Resources Used
GAO-20-321R, Published: March 11, 2020, Publicly Released: April 9, 2020.
Report: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-321R
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-321R
Temporary Protected Status: Steps Taken to Inform and Communicate Secretary of Homeland Security's Decisions
GAO-20-134, April 3, 2020
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705691.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705690.pdf
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Without Immigration, U.S. Economy Will Struggle to Grow
By Pia Orrenius and Chloe Smith
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, April 2020
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https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2020/0409
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Marisela Inestroza-Antonelli v. Barr
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 18-60236
April 9, 2020
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
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http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-60236-CV0.pdf
Ruling: Marisela Inestroza-Antonelli, a native Honduran citizen, filed a motion to reopen her removal proceedings on the basis of changed country conditions in Honduras. She relied in part on the alleged dismantling of institutional protections for women against gender-based violence following a 2009 military coup. Without addressing the coup, the BIA found that any change in genderbased violence was incremental or incidental and not material. Because this conclusion is not supported by the record, we grant the petition and remand.
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Leading indicator of cross-border traveller volume, March 2020
Statistics Canada, April 14, 2020
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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/daily-quotidien/200414/dq200414b-eng.pdf
Excerpt: The number of Americans and Canadians crossing the border by automobile fell drastically in the second half of March.
In March 2020, the number of Americans entering into Canada by automobile through 111 land ports declined nearly 60% compared with the same month in 2019.
Over the same period, the number of Canadians returning from the United States by automobile through these ports dropped by 45% compared with March 2019.
Restrictions of non-essential travel at the border in March dramatically altered the pattern of cross-border travel by automobile between the two countries.
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Heading toward 11 million inhabitants
Statistics Sweden, April 8, 2020
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https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-projections/population-projections/pong/statistical-news/the-future-population-of-sweden-2020-2070/
Excerpt: By the end of 2029, the number of inhabitants is expected to be 700,000 more than today and Sweden’s population will reach 11 million.
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In the 2020s, 110 000 persons per year on average are estimated to immigrate to Sweden, while on average 63 000 persons per year are estimated to emigrate. Compared with the 2010s, immigration numbers are expected to be lower, mainly due to less refugee immigration. On the other hand, emigration is expected to be higher than before. One explanation is that the population will consist of more foreign born persons and Swedish born persons with foreign born parents. These groups emigrate to a larger extent than others.
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Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia, February 2020
Australian Bureau of Statistics, April 15, 2020
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https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatalogue/50468A19ADB8060BCA2583A500102545?OpenDocument
Excerpt: There were 785,400 Australian residents who returned from overseas in February. An increase of 5.3% from a year ago.
ABS Director of Migration Statistics, Jenny Dobak, said there was a decrease of visitors to Australia from most countries in February, and for some it was a large decrease. This coincides with the travel bans which were put in place at the beginning of February and the outbreak of COVID-19.
"Although China was previously the largest source country for visitors for this month, it had decreased by nearly 90% when compared to a year ago," she said.
Among the top ten source countries, the highest annual decreases beyond China were recorded for Hong Kong (-28%), Singapore (-25%), and Germany (-16%). An increase of 16% was recorded for those travelling to Australia from India.
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International migration: February 2020
Statistics New Zealand, April 13, 2020
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https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/international-migration-february-2020
Excerpt: Impact of COVID–19 on international migration
Since January 2020, governments have imposed international travel restrictions in multiple countries, due to the spread of COVID-19 around the world. In March 2020, the New Zealand government introduced further measures to protect New Zealanders from the COVID-19 virus, effectively limiting travel to New Zealand and travel within New Zealand. These combined restrictions have affected the number of flights to and from New Zealand.
There are several implications of these restrictions on recent migration estimates:
* Many visitors to New Zealand, travelling on a range of visa types, have been unable to depart (Estimates as at 29 March 2020 are 160,000–180,000 visitors in New Zealand; see also earlier discussion in About 250,000 visitors in New Zealand). The number of visitors is not unusual, but their prolonged stay in New Zealand is likely to cause an initial over-estimation of migrant arrivals and net migration for the most recent months, November 2019 to February 2020. If and when these visitors depart, the provisional migrant arrival and net migration estimates for these months are likely to get revised down.
* Even if these visitors have departed, a prolonged stay in New Zealand increases their chance of being initially classified as a migrant arrival. If these visitors remain out of New Zealand, the provisional migrant arrival and net migration estimates for the months that they arrived, are likely to get revised down.
* The travel of New Zealand residents has been curtailed, resulting in relatively fewer short-term and long-term (migrant) departures of New Zealand citizens in recent weeks relative to the same period a year ago.
* In addition, migrant arrivals of New Zealand citizens have increased in recent weeks. If these people subsequently depart rather than staying long-term, then provisional migrant arrival estimates for these months are likely to get revised down.
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New York asks justices for temporary pause of “public charge” rule
By Amy Howe
SCOTUSBlog, April 13, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/04/new-york-asks-justices-for-temporary-pause-of-public-charge-rule/#more-293053
Excerpt: The public charge rule interprets a provision of federal immigration law that bars noncitizens from receiving a green card if the government believes that they are likely to become reliant on government assistance. In August 2019, the Trump administration defined “public charge” to refer to noncitizens who receive a variety of government benefits – such as cash, health care or housing – for more than 12 months over a three-year period. Under the rule, the government also considers factors such as age, employment history and finances to determine whether someone might become a “public charge” in the future.
In their 27-page filing today, the challengers told the justices that the public charge rule has grave implications for public health during the COVID-19 crisis, because it deters immigrants – who fear that it will jeopardize their ability to obtain a green card – from accessing health care, including testing and treatment for the virus. In so doing, the challengers contended, the rule “makes it more likely that immigrants will suffer serious illness if infected and spread the virus inadvertently to others—risks that are heightened because immigrants make up a large proportion of the essential workers who continue to interact with the public” in positions such as home-health-care aides, custodians and cooks.
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
April 14, 2020
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https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/immigration_index/immigration_index_apr14
Excerpt: In the latest survey, 38% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the government is doing too little to reduce illegal border crossings and visitor overstays. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it is doing too much. Twenty percent (20%) rate the level of action as about right.
Sixty-four percent (64%) continue to believe the government should mandate employers to use the federal electronic E-Verify system to help ensure that they hire only legal workers for U.S. jobs. Twenty percent (20%) disagree, with 16% undecided.
A new high of 62% now favors giving lifetime work permits to most of the approximately two million illegal residents who came to this country when they were minors, with 37% who Strongly Favor it. Thirty-one percent (31%) are opposed, including 15% who remain Strongly Opposed.
Forty-seven percent (47%) also favor giving lifetime work permits to most of the estimated 12 million illegal residents of all ages who currently reside in the United States, including 24% who Strongly Favor such a move. This, too, is a new high. Forty-six percent (46%) are opposed, with 27% who Strongly Oppose.
Legal immigration has averaged around a million annually in recent years, but 48% of voters believe the government should be adding no more than 750,000 new immigrants each year, with 34% who say it should be fewer than 500,000. Thirty-six percent (36%) favor adding one million or more legal newcomers per year, including 11% who say the figure should be higher than 1.5 million. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.
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12.
New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Along the US-Mexico Border Prosecutions for Harboring Immigrants Continue to Climb
April 13, 2020
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https://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/603/
Excerpt: The latest available case-by-case records tracking lead charges for February 2020 show 504 new prosecutions under federal laws prohibiting the harboring of undocumented immigrants, up from 400 during the same month last year. Eighty-six percent of new prosecutions in February took place in federal courts along the US-Mexico border. On an annual basis, harboring prosecutions reached an all-time high in FY 2019 with just shy of 5,700 new cases, up from about 4,500 in FY 2018. This growth may be at least partly attributed to a directive issued by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2017 encouraging federal prosecutors to increase prosecutions against harboring.
The Hidden Impact of Removal Proceedings on Rural Communities
April 9, 2020
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https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/602/
Excerpt: Immigrants who are held at rural detention centers face barriers to justice over and above their non-detained counterparts. Obtaining the services of a qualified immigration attorney is even harder from behind the walls of a detention facility. When available, attorneys may charge additional fees for travelling to and from the detention center for consultations hearings. At the same time, arranging for the attorney to be paid while inside a detention facility adds additional challenges. Moreover, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, arranging access to medical services may be particularly challenging when a detention facility is located in a rural county. (See TRAC's recent report on how low rates of detainees with criminal records could impact ICE's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Decline in ICE Detainees with Criminal Records Could Shape Agency's Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
April 3, 2020
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https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/601/
Excerpt: The total number of ICE civil detainees has varied over this period. Starting from a low of 25,780 in March 2015 to a high of 55,654 in July 2019, before falling currently to 38,058. Throughout this period, however, the growth in the number of ICE detainees has been driven virtually entirely by detainees with no record of a criminal conviction, which likely includes many recently arrived asylum-seekers.
The number of ICE detainees with a criminal conviction peaked in October of 2017 at less than 20,000 (19,264), then declined steadily until today. That numbers has fallen below 15,000 during each of the past five months (November 2019 through March 2020). See Table 1 at the end of this report for actual counts. (For more information about TRAC's data sources on detainees, please see sidebar, About the Data.)
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13.
New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Should Germany Have Built a New Wall? Macroeconomic Lessons from the 2015-18 Refugee Wave
By Christopher Busch, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Irina Popova, and Zainab Iftikhar
NBER Working Paper No. 26973, April 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w26973
Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I
By Andreas Ferrara and Price V. Fishback
NBER Working Paper No. 26936, April 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w26936
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
Immigration and U.S. National Security: The State of Play Since 9/11
By Amy Pope
April 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigration-us-national-security-since-911
Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States
By Luis Hassan Gallardo and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source Spotlight, April 10, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/venezuelan-immigrants-united-states
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration
By Cevat Giray Aksoy and Semih Tumen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13145, April 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13145/local-governance-quality-and-the-environmental-cost-of-forced-migration
Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship
By Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, and Sergei Guriev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130, April 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13130/exposure-to-transit-migration-public-attitudes-and-entrepreneurship
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-Market Work among US Immigrants
By Francine D. Blau, Cornell University Department of Economics; Lawrence M. Kahn, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, et al.
DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1858
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3576395
https://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp13093.html
2. An EU-Regularisation Directive: An Effective Solution to the Enforcement Deficit in Returning Irregularly Staying Migrants
By Kevin Fredy Hinterberger, Arbeiterkammer Wien; University of Vienna Faculty of Law
Maastricht Journal on European and Comparative Law Vol 26, Issue 6, 2019
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3522595
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7196561
3. Doctoral Dissertation: Essays on the Political Economy of Immigration
By Sumit S. Deole, TU Dortmund University; Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg
Halle (Saale), January 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3549518
4. Adultification of Immigrant Children
By Laila Hlass, Tulane University - Law School
34 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 200 (2020)
Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 20-4
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3564711
5. Mistreating Central American Refugees: Repeating History in Response to Humanitarian Challenges
By Bill Ong Hing, University of San Francisco School of Law
7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 359 (2020)
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3570069
https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1151&context=hastings_race_poverty_law_journal
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. ICE Releases Hundreds Of Immigrants As Coronavirus Spreads in Detention Centers
April 16, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/ice-releases-hundreds-of-immigrants-as-coronavirus-spreads-in-detention-centers.html
2. Stephen Miller’s hard-line policies on refugee families make a comeback
April 16, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/stephen-millers-hard-line-policies-on-refugee-families-make-a-comeback.html
3. Newsom announces $125M fund for undocumented immigrants amid coronavirus emergency
April 15, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/newsom-announces-125m-fund-for-undocumented-immigrants-amid-coronavirus-emergency.html
4. Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Denaturalization and Revocation of Naturalization
April 15, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigrant-legal-resource-center-denaturalization-and-revocation-of-naturalization.html
5. TPS for Venezuelans?
April 15, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/tps-for-venezuelans.html
6. Along the US-Mexico Border Prosecutions for Harboring Immigrants Continue to Climb
April 14, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/along-the-us-mexico-border-prosecutions-for-harboring-immigrants-continue-to-climb.html\
7. The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens in an Anxious Age
By Hiroshi Motomura
April 14, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-article-of-the-day-the-new-migration-law-migrants-refugees-and-citizens-in-an-anxious-ag.html
8. New York State Challenge to Trump "Public Charge" Rule in Supreme Court: Immigrants Are Scared of Getting Coronavirus Treatment
April 14, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/new-york-state-challenge-to-trump-public-charge-rule-in-supreme-court-immigrants-are-scared-of-getti.html
9. Coronavirus Border Expulsions: CDC’s Assault on Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Minors
April 13, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/coronavirus-border-expulsions-cdcs-assault-on-asylum-seekers-and-unaccompanied-minors.html
10. For temporary immigrants, job loss means the loss of a visa... and elibility to stay in the US
April 13, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/for-temporary-immigrants-job-loss-means-the-loss-of-a-visa-and-elibility-to-stay-in-the-us.html
11. U.S. expels 6,300 migrants, coronavirus used to justify expulsions, border crossers drop -- Mission Accomplished?
April 11, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/us-expels-6300-migrants-coronavirus-used-to-justify-expulsions-border-crossers-drop-mission-accompli.html
12. Labor, Law Enforcement, and 'Normal Times': The Origins of Immigration’s Home within the Department of Justice and the Evolution of Attorney General Control over Immigration Adjudications
By Jennifer Breen
April 11, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-article-of-the-day-labor-law-enforcement-and-normal-times-the-origins-of-immigrations-ho.html
13. Inside Trump’s Failed Plan to Surveil the Canadian Border
April 10, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/inside-trumps-failed-plan-to-surveil-the-canadian-border.html
14. Trump Achieved Goal of Ending Asylum Thanks to COVID-19
April 10, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/trump-achieved-goal-of-ending-asylum-thanks-to-covid-19.html
15. Categorical Nonuniformity
By Sheldon Evans
April 8, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-article-of-the-day-categorical-nonuniformity-by-sheldon-evans.html
16. The Ticking Time Bomb of COVID-19 and Immigration Detention
April 7, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/the-ticking-time-bomb-of-covid-19-and-immigration-detention.html
17. Tracking Coronavirus in Countries with and without Travel Bans
April 7, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/tracking-coronavirus-in-countries-with-and-without-travel-bans.html
18. COVID-19 Stimulus Package: What CARES Act Rebates Mean for Immigrants
April 6, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/covid-19-stimulus-package-what-cares-act-rebates-mean-for-immigrants.html
19. U.S. Passport Agencies Prioritizing Passports for Life-or-Death Emergencies: All other passport services are either on hold or subject to “significant delays.”
April 6, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/us-passport-agencies-prioritizing-passports-for-life-or-death-emergencies-all-other-passport-service.html
20. Prince Harry Is Living in the U.S.—How Will That Affect His Taxes and Immigration Status?
April 5, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/prince-harry-is-living-in-the-ushow-will-that-affect-his-taxes-and-immigration-status.html
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Data for Global Migration Center Immigration Fact
Harvard Dataverse, April 2020
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https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/MTBJ3S
Description: Data to reproduce figure in Global Migration Center Immigration Fact on migrant deaths in the Tucson Sector (2020-04-08)
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Health Profile and Health Care Access of Mexican Migration Flows Traversing the Northern Border of Mexico
By Ana P. Martinez-Donate, Niko Verdecias, Xiao Zhang, et al.
Medical Care, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2020
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https://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/Abstract/2020/05000/Health_Profile_and_Health_Care_Access_of_Mexican.9.aspx
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Is it true that Britons will not do seasonal agricultural work?
Immigration Policy Briefing Paper 393, April 9, 2020
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https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/pdfs/European-Union-MW393.pdf
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New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations
By Cathryn Costello and Itamar Mann
German Law Journal, April 8, 2020
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https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/border-justice-migration-and-accountability-for-human-rights-violations-1
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Towards Safer and More Productive Migration for South Asia
By S. Amer Ahmed, Laurent Bossavie, Stefano Paternostro, Caglar Ozden, et al.
The World Bank, March 31, 2020
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/903161585816440273/pdf/Towards-Safer-and-More-Productive-Migration-for-South-Asia.pdf
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Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America
By Holly M. Karibo and George T. Díaz
University of Texas Press, 304 pp.
Hardcover, 1477320679, $40.99
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1477320679/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 4560 KB, ASIN: B0813XN3CX, $27.99
Book Description: An extensive history examining how North American nations have tried (and often failed) to police their borders, Border Policing presents diverse scholarly perspectives on attempts to regulate people and goods at borders, as well as on the ways that individuals and communities have navigated, contested, and evaded such regulation.
The contributors explore these power dynamics though a series of case studies on subjects ranging from competing allegiances at the northeastern border during the War of 1812 to struggles over Indian sovereignty and from the effects of the Mexican Revolution to the experiences of smugglers along the Rio Grande during Prohibition. Later chapters stretch into the twenty-first century and consider immigration enforcement, drug trafficking, and representations of border policing in reality television. Together, the contributors explore the powerful ways in which federal authorities impose political agendas on borderlands and how local border residents and regions interact with, and push back against, such agendas. With its rich mix of political, legal, social, and cultural history, this collection provides new insights into the distinct realities that have shaped the international borders of North America.
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Permeable Borders: History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States
By Paul Otto and Susanne Berthier-Foglar
Berghahn Books, 268 pp.
Hardcover, 1789204429, $114.75
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1789204429/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2924 KB, ASIN: B07XL5TFX6, 240 pp., $29.82
Book Description: If the frontier, in all its boundless possibility, was a central organizing metaphor for much of U.S. history, today it is arguably the border that best encapsulates the American experience, as xenophobia, economic inequality, and resurgent nationalism continue to fuel conditions of division and limitation. This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders?whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. Together, these essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.
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North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
By Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Victor Konrad, and Alan Artibise
University of Arizona Press, 424 pp.
Hardcover, 0816541043, $95.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816541043/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0816539529, $40.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816539529/centerforimmigra
7036 KB, ASIN: B086RK7VT7, $38.00, kindle
Book Description: "North American Borders in Comparative Perspective provides a balanced and comparative view of borders in the diverse and dynamic region formed by Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The authors argue that North America is "not a level playing field for trade, migration, and other forms of exchange." In addition to traditional national and regional boundaries, the borders in North America are "increasingly based on wealth, race, education, and politics." By examining North America with a comparative perspective, the authors reveal "the distinctive nature of i) the over-portrayed Mexico-US border, and ii) the largely overlooked Canada-US border.""--
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Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration
By Donatella Di Cesare
Polity, 260 pp.
Hardcover, 1509533540, $89.22
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1509533540/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1509533559, $25.60
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1509533559/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 567 KB, ASIN: B086FTM649, $24.32
Book Description: From the shores of Europe to the Mexican-US border, mass migration is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Yet at the same time, calls to defend national sovereignty are becoming ever more vitriolic, with those fleeing war, persecution, and famine vilified as a threat to our security as well as our social and economic order.
In this book, written amidst the dark resurgence of appeals to defend ‘blood and soil’, Donatella Di Cesare challenges the idea of the exclusionary state, arguing that migration is a fundamental human right. She develops an original philosophy of migration that places the migrants themselves, rather than states and their borders, at the centre. Through an analysis of three historic cities, Athens, Rome and Jerusalem, Di Cesare shows how we should conceive of migrants not as an other but rather as resident foreigners. This means recognising that citizenship cannot be based on any supposed connection to the land or an exclusive claim to ownership that would deny the rights of those who arrive as migrants. Instead, citizenship must be disconnected from the possession of territory altogether and founded on the principle of cohabitation – and on the ultimate reality that we are all temporary guests and tenants of the earth.
Di Cesare’s argument for a new ethics of hospitality will be of great interest to all those concerned with the challenges posed by migration and with the increasingly hostile attitudes towards migrants, as well as students and scholars of philosophy and political theory.
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No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants
By Alina Das
Bold Type Books, 272 pp.
Hardcover, 1568589468, $28.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568589468/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 3915 KB, ASIN: B07W55QGFQ, 217 pp., $15.99
Book Description: Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the "deportation machine." The bulk of the arrests target people who have a criminal record -- so-called "criminal aliens" -- the majority of whose offenses are immigration-, drug-, or traffic-related. These individuals are uprooted and banished from their homes, their families, and their communities.
Through the stories of those caught in the system, Das traces the ugly history of immigration policy to explain how the U.S. constructed the idea of the "criminal alien," effectively dividing immigrants into the categories "good" and "bad," "deserving" and "undeserving." As Das argues, we need to confront the cruelty of the machine so that we can build an inclusive immigration policy premised on human dignity and break the cycle once and for all.
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What Do We Owe to Refugees?
By David Owen
Polity, 140 pp.
Hardcover, 1509539735, $42.75
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1509539735/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1509539743, $12.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1509539743/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 208 KB, ASIN: B086G3K7Z7, $12.30
Book Description: Who are refugees? Who, if anyone, is responsible for protecting them? What forms should this protection take? In a world of people fleeing from civil wars, state failure, and environmental disasters, these are ethically and politically pressing questions.
In this book, David Owen reveals how the contemporary politics of refuge is structured by two rival historical pictures of refugees. In reconstructing this history, he advocates an understanding of refugeehood that moves us beyond our current impasse by distinguishing between what is owed to refugees in general and what is owed to different types of refugee. He provides an account of refugee protection and the forms of international cooperation required to implement it that is responsive to the claims of both refugees and states.
At a time when refugee protection is once again prominent on the international agenda, this book offers a guide to understanding the challenges this topic raises and shows why addressing it matters for all of us.
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Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
By Francis Musoni
Indiana University Press, 218 pp.
Hardcover, 0253047145, $85.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0253047145/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0253047153, $28.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/02530471539/centerforimmigra
ASIN: B07Z1SDTWB, $14.99, kindle
Book Description: With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 8, No 16, 14, April 15, 2020
http://www.comparativemigrationstudies.com/
Latest Articles:
Building inclusive cities: reflections from a knowledge exchange on the inclusion of newcomers by UK local authorities
By Jacqueline Broadhead
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https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40878-020-0172-0
The Grandhotel Cosmopolis – a concrete utopia? Reflections on the mediated and lived geographies of asylum accommodation
By Marielle Zill, Bas Spierings, and Ilse Van Liempt
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https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40878-020-0171-1
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CSEM Newsletter
April 14, 2020
https://www.csem.org.br/
Latest Articles:
Migrant ministries call for end to deportations during pandemic
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/migrant-ministries-call-for-end-to-deportations-during-pandemic/
How COVID-19 is throttling vital migration flows
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/how-covid-19-is-throttling-vital-migration-flows/
As Tijuana Locks Down, Migrants At U.S.-Mexico Border Stuck In Dangerous Limbo
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/as-tijuana-locks-down-migrants-at-u-s-mexico-border-stuck-in-dangerous-limbo/
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 43, No. 7, April 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/43/7
Selected articles:
A prospect of staying? Differentiated access to integration for asylum seekers in Germany?
By Caroline Schultz
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1640376
Between queer liberalisms and Muslim masculinities: LGBTQI+ Muslim asylum assessment in Germany?
By Mengia Tschalaer
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1640378
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 46, No. 7, April 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/46/7?nav=tocList
Articles:
A ticket to mobility? Naturalisation and subsequent migration of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands
By Marloes de Hoon, Maarten Vink, and Hans Schmeets
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1629894
Immigrant voters against their will: a focus group analysis of identities, political issues and party allegiances among German resettlers during the 2017 bundestag election campaign
By Achim Goerres, Sabrina J. Mayer, and Dennis C. Spies
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1503527
Prefiguration, strategic interaction and political belonging in undocumented migrant and solidarity movements
By Sander Mensink
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1561251
Social politics: the importance of the family for naturalisation decisions of the 1.5 generation
By Thomas Soehl, Roger Waldinger, and Renee Luthra
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1534584
Political migration discourses on social media: a comparative perspective on visibility and sentiment across political Facebook accounts in Europe
By Tobias Heidenreich, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Fabienne Lind, and Hajo Boomgaarden
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1665990
Social support networks and loneliness of Polish migrants in the Netherlands
By Maja Djundeva and Lea Ellwardt
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597691
Diminishing social inequality between refugee children and their peers growing up in Denmark
By Christopher J. de Montgomery, Jørgen Holm Petersen, and Signe Smith Jervelund
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1526061
Social networking in a digital and mobile world: the case of environmentally-related migration in Bangladesh
By Ingrid Boas
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1605891
Immigrant students’ achievements in light of their educational aspirations and academic motivation
By Ai Miyamoto, Julian Seuring, and Cornelia Kristen
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1538772
Fatal flaws in the UK asylum decision-making system: an analysis of Home Office refusal letters
By Liza Schuster
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1552827
The political dimension of young people’s migration intentions: evidence from the Arab Mediterranean region
By Andreas Etling, Leonie Backeberg, and Jochen Tholen
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1485093
Exploring (transit) migration through a postcolonial lens: Tibetans migrating to India and beyond
By Rebecca Frilund
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1501270
‘Nobody comes to Baba for advice’: negotiating ageing masculinities in the Somali diaspora
By Marith Kristin Gullbekk Markussen
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1496817
Bringing children to the cities: gendered migrant parenting and the family dynamics of rural-urban migrants in China
By Yinni Peng
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1510308
Universalising the particular: strategic framing in immigrant cross-border activism
By Angela Y. McClean
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1504675
Old age facilities for German-speaking people in Thailand – a new facet of international migration in old age
By Désirée Bender, Tina Hollstein, and Cornelia Schweppe
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1521266
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Journal on Migration and Human Security
Online first, April 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mhs/current
Latest article:
The Case for a National Legalization Program without Legislation or Executive Action: Results from Screening for Immigration Legal Options
By Jeanne M. Atkinson and Tom K. Wong
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2311502418771915
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Mobilities
Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmob20/15/2
Selected articles:
North American surrogate reproductive mobilities incited by cross-border reproductive care
By Amy Speier
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2020.1723874
Mobilizing mobilities: birthright tourists as willful strangers in Canada
By Kristin Lozanski
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2020.1722557
The migration map trap. On the invasion arrows in the cartography of migration
By Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno Lacy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2019.1676031
Fortress Europe’s far-flung borderlands: ‘Illegality’ and the ‘deportation regime’ in France’s Caribbean and Indian Ocean territories
By Catherine Benoît
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2019.1678909
The contradictory politics of the right to travel: mobilities, borders & tourism
By Raoul V. Bianchi, Marcus L. Stephenson, and Kevin Hannam
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2020.1723251
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Rural Migration News
Volume 26, Number 2, April 2020
https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/
Selected articles:
IMMIGRATION
Virus, Asylum, Politics
The coronavirus, which likely originated in a food market in Wuhan in Hubei province in December 2019, changed work and personal lives in the US in March 2020. Workplaces and schools closed and people were asked to stay at home to avoid catching and spreading the virus.
DHS in March 2020 announced that foreigners who cross the Mexico-US border legally or illegally would be unable to apply for asylum in the US, and Mexico agreed to accept the return of its citizens and Central Americans. Migrant advocates decried the new policy, arguing that it violates US commitments to accept applications from asylum seekers.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2418
DHS: CBP, ICE, USCIS
The number of unauthorized foreigners in the US dropped from almost 12 million in 2010 to less than 11 million in 2020, as fewer new unauthorized foreigners arrived from Mexico and more unauthorized Mexicans left the US.
The number of unauthorized foreigners dropped significantly in California, New York, and New Jersey over the past decade, but rose in Texas from 1.7 million to 1.8 million. Most departures from the US were voluntary, but almost 86,000 unauthorized foreigners were deported from the interior of the US in FY19.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2419
H-2A; H-2B
DOL certified almost 258,000 jobs to be filled with H-2A workers in FY19. Agricultural labor contractors were certified to fill 41 percent of the FY19 jobs, up from 12 percent in 2013.
DOS issued 204,800 H-2A visas in FY19, up from 196,400 in FY18, when DOS issued 180,400 H-2A visas to Mexicans (88 percent), 5,300 to Jamaicans (2.5 percent), 3,900 to Guatemalans (2 percent), and 3,600 to South Africans. H-2A workers can be recruited in 84 countries.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2420
Canada, Mexico
The US closed its borders with Canada and Mexico to non-essential travelers in March 2020, but allowed the free flow of goods to continue. Mexico in 2019 became the major trading partner of the US, with two-way trade of $615 billion in 2019.
There were 188 million crossings over the Mexico-US border in 2019, including cars, trucks, and buses as well as pedestrians. By some estimates, a million people a day cross the Mexico-US border.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2421
Europe, Asia
The Turkish government in March 2020 encouraged Syrian and other migrants in the country to travel to Greece, breaking a March 2016 agreement under which Turkey blocked the exit of migrants in exchange for E6 billion in EU aid to improve conditions for Syrians and other migrants in Turkey. About half of the EU aid has been spent, and 27,000 Syrians in Turkey have been resettled in EU countries since March 2016.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2422
Virus, Population, Trade
The coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease Covid-19 led to shutdowns of economic activity in China, Europe, North America, and many developing countries. As shutdowns extended from March into April 2020, developing economies that rely on an influx of foreign investment experienced an economic shock.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2423
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