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Your weekly summary from the Council LATEST ANALYSIS
With job openings at nearly twice as high as the pre-pandemic norm, employers across the country are continuing to struggle to fill open positions and meet workforce needs. But they’re finding a natural ally in an unusual place: chambers of commerce. Read More » The number of refugees and asylum seekers fleeing violence or persecution in their home countries in search of safety abroad has grown dramatically over the past decade. Until recently, the United States was a global leader in admitting refugees and granting asylum to people whose lives are in danger. But since 2017—the first year of the Trump administration—refugee admissions and applications for asylum have plummeted in the United States. Read More » FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
This fact sheet from the American Immigration Council explains current refugee flows and how refugee resettlement in the U.S. works. Read more: An Overview of U.S. Refugee Law and Policy ACROSS THE NATION
The requested records should help the public better understand how the immigration courts treated Haitian nationals who recently entered the country and whether the discriminatory treatment faced by Haitian immigrants permeated beyond the border. MAKE A CONTRIBUTION
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “The federal government should create an integration and support system for recent arrivals while they wait for their cases to wind through immigration courts. This system could be based not only on historical examples, such as the Cuban Refugee Program of the 1960s, but on current networks of nonprofit organizations, legal service providers, religious entities, and others that have been welcoming migrants along the U.S. border for years. “Thankfully, the government does not have to start from scratch. National organizations have been proposing a framework of service provision and case management to the federal government for years. The goal is to provide wraparound social services to migrants, respecting individual needs while also removing the pressure on individual cities and states to provide these resources.” – Rebekah Wolf, policy counsel with the American Immigration Council
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