Your weekly summary from the Council

 LATEST ANALYSIS 

• ICE Announces New Victim-Centered Policy, Showing a Favorable Shift Toward Vulnerable Immigrants
  
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week a new policy designed to honor and protect vulnerable immigrants. The new policy addresses protections for survivors of violence, trafficking, and domestic abuse. Read More »
   
• USCIS Has Been Busy Expanding Access to Legal Immigration and Restoring Some Humanitarian Protections
  
  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has restored access to lawful immigration status, employment, and humanitarian protections for people who were under assault by the Trump administration. This includes a redesignation of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, faster and easier access to Social Security cards for green card applicants, and Deferred Enforced Departure for residents of Hong Kong. Read More »
   
• New Illinois Law Expected to Go Furthest Toward Ending Immigration Detention in the US
  
  A new Illinois law limiting ICE detention is expected to effectively end detention in the state by next year. The law prohibits local governments from signing new contracts with ICE and requires existing contracts to end by 2022. Read More »

 FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW  

• The U.S. Census Bureau released 2020 demographic data on the U.S. population on Thursday, revealing the most diverse picture of America’s racial and ethnic makeup in a decade. Demographers say the 2020 data also reveals that more immigration will be needed to solve the issues of an aging population.
  
  The American Immigration Council provides fact sheets that highlight demographic data and economic contributions of immigrants in each U.S. state and nationwide.
  
  Read more: Immigrants in the United States

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 QUOTE OF THE WEEK 

“All border management during a pandemic is about balancing priorities, and the United States has decided that it would like to keep our borders largely open during the pandemic [referring to legal land and air travel]. And so to single out asylum seekers who represent a small number of people crossing the border, in comparison to legal traffic, for Title 42 doesn't make sense now and hasn't made sense for the entirety of the pandemic.”

– Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel at the American Immigration Council

 FURTHER READING 

• Vox: The law that broke US immigration
   

• Capital & Main: Will Investing in Community Groups Keep Immigrants Out of Detention?
   

• The Hill: ICE directed to avoid deportation of victims of crime
   

• The Miami Herald (Column): Mexican migrants aren’t spreading COVID in the U.S. No, Republicans are doing that

         

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