Your weekly summary from the Council

 LATEST ANALYSIS 

• Ninth Circuit Lifts Injunction Protecting People in ICE Detention from COVID-19
  
  In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower court’s protections for medically vulnerable people locked up in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More »
   
• ICE Fails to Provide Basic Oversight of Solitary Confinement and Unlawfully Destroys Records
  
  ICE has been known to improperly subject individuals in its custody to solitary confinement and has destroyed solitary confinement records in violation of a records retention schedule and an agreement to preserve records in a lawsuit. Read More »
   
• Biden Administration Announces Plan for Reinstating the Migrant Protection Protocols
  
  Two months after a federal court ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (also known as “Remain in Mexico”), the administration announced that it will reinstate the program in mid-November if Mexico agrees. Read More »

 FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW  

• Media outlets and headlines across the nation reported that U.S. border authorities apprehended more than 1.7 million migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border during fiscal year 2021. But these news reports fail to dig deeper and look at the context behind the numbers. 

  This fact sheet from the American Immigration Council provides an overview and analysis of border encounters and apprehensions in 2021 and explains the enforcement policies at play at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

  Read more: Rising Border Encounters in 2021: An Overview and Analysis 

 ACROSS THE NATION  

• The American Immigration Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)— along with their joint initiative the Immigration Justice Campaign—continued to advocate for asylum seekers’ rights to due process in efforts to create a new system of processing asylum seekers who may be subject to the expedited removal process. 
  
  In comments submitted to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) on a proposed rule to create “Dedicated Docket” in immigration court to complete the claims of asylum-seeking families within 300 days, the organizations urged the Biden administration to balance the government’s interest in quickly identifying individuals eligible for asylum and affording every individual due process protections. 
  
  Read more: Council and Partners Comment on Changes to Streamlined Asylum Removal Proceedings

 WATCH STORIES OF BELONGING 

As part of the Belonging Begins With Us campaign—which aims to foster a nation where everyone feels that they belong—a group of diverse influencers are sharing their stories of belonging. Here’s what a baker, photographer, mom, and movie buff all have in common.

 QUOTE OF THE WEEK 

Immigration The Biden administration announced plans to ease land border restrictions with Mexico for nonessential travelers with visas. But the administration continues to use Title 42, a Trump-era health provision, to block most people from seeking protection at the border.

“Seeking asylum in the U.S., seeking humanitarian protection, is and should be viewed as essential travel.”

– Jorge Loweree, policy director for the American Immigration Council

 FURTHER READING 

• The New York Times: ‘It Should Not Have Happened’: Asylum Officers Detail Migrants’ Accounts of Abuse
   

• ABC15 Arizona: What’s behind the new record number of border arrests?
   

• USA Today: ‘Squid Game,’ K-beauty and BTS - What’s so special about Korean pop culture?

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