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 LATEST ANALYSIS 

• Debunking Major Myths About Immigrants’ Socioeconomic Status in the US
  
  Opponents of immigration often claim that European immigrants who came to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are radically different than the Latin Americans and Asians who immigrate here today. Read More »
   
• New Report Reveals Widespread Failures by DHS To Prosecute Immigration Court Cases
  
  Thousands of immigration court cases have been dismissed this year for an astonishing reason: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has failed to file the most basic paperwork with the courts. Read More »
   
• Bond Hearings for Asylum Seekers Are Latest Casualty of the Recent Supreme Court Term
  
  For almost two decades, asylum seekers taken into Border Patrol custody who passed a “credible fear” interview have been eligible to seek release from detention on bond while they go through the asylum process. But now that right is gone. Read More »

 FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW  

• The Supreme Court certified its ruling allowing the Biden administration to end the Migrant Protection Protocols—also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program—that sent thousands of people seeking humanitarian protection to dangerous areas of Mexico to await their asylum hearings. The 5th Circuit did not expedite the issuance of the mandate in the MPP case, and instead ordered that the mandate issue on September 26, the last day possible under local rules. 

  This fact sheet from the American Immigration Council explains how the U.S. government justified MPP, its inherent dangers, as well as recent developments under the Biden administration. 

  Read more: The “Migrant Protection Protocols”

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 ACROSS THE NATION 

The American Immigration Council filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to compel U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide information about the agency’s treatment of Haitian nationals detained at the Torrance Detention Facility, including information about whether the agency granted detained individuals access to legal representatives and how ICE decided to release individuals on parole.

The records should clarify what happened to the Haitian nationals and help advocates determine whether the agency discriminated against this vulnerable population. 

Read more: Council Sues To Get Records of ICE’s Treatment of Haitian Nationals at the Torrance Detention Facility

 QUOTE OF THE WEEK 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced in July the Operation Lone Star directing state and local law enforcement to arrest migrants and actively take them to the border, forcing a handoff that broadens the state’s role in the immigration enforcement process and puts into question whether it’s intruding on a federal responsibility and stretching the legal limits of the state’s efforts on the border.

“There are ongoing questions about what authority they have [state of Texas] to bus people from one location to another. Legally speaking, is that immigration enforcement? I still don’t know.”

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

 FURTHER READING 

• USA Today: Biden to sign microchips bill. But advocates say it's 'incomplete' without including immigration
   

• Newsweek: Our Legal System Needs to Interview Traumatized Immigrants Better | Opinion
   

• El Paso Times: As El Paso struggles to heal, Walmart shooter's rhetoric builds in GOP
   

• Society for Human Resource Management: USCIS Must Address Ballooning Backlogs, Ombudsman Says

 SAVE THE DATE 

• The American Immigration Council’s New American Fellows program awards six immigrant artists with grants to produce original artwork based on immigration data, sparking important conversations and active community participation.
  
  Save the date for the final showcase on Saturday, Sept. 17 in Brooklyn, NYC

         

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