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Blogpost by Bishop Edgar da Cunha of the Diocese of Fall River, MA: USCCB Committee Work - I am a member of the Subcommittee on the Pastoral Care of Migrants, Refugees and Travelers and the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America
Nancy Gavilanes, Director of Immigration and Naturalization Services, and Elmida Kulovic, Director of Refugee Resettlement, for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: Welcoming the Stranger
Notable New Publications, Reports, Films, Articles, Etc.
Migration Policy Institute: In Order to Meet Its 2023 Refugee Resettlement Target, the United States Can Draw From Numerous Refugee Crises Globally
On September 26, 2022, President Biden signed a presidential determination of 125,000 refugee admissions for FY 2023, with a promise that the administration would come much closer to that total in the number of refugees resettled this fiscal year. The State Department has as many as 76,000 refugees waiting in the “pipeline,” refugees who have gone through the interview process but have yet to be cleared to travel. This represents good news, as there are a number of refugee crises around the world from which the United States could accept refugees in need of resettlement and meet the ceiling of 125,000.
Congressional Research Service: Temporary Protected Status and Deferred
Enforced Departure (Updated)
When civil unrest, violence, or natural disasters erupt in countries around the world, concerns arise over the ability of foreign nationals present in the United States who are from those countries to safely return. Provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provide for temporary protected status (TPS) and other forms of relief from removal under specified circumstances. The Secretary of Homeland Security has the discretion to designate a country for TPS for periods of 6 to 18 months and can extend these periods if the country continues to meet the conditions for designation. A foreign national from a designated country who is granted TPS receives a registration document and employment authorization for the duration of the TPS designation. In addition to TPS, there is another form of blanket relief from removal known as deferred enforced departure (DED). DED is a temporary, discretionary, administrative stay of removal granted to aliens from designated countries. Unlike TPS, a DED designation emanates from the President’s constitutional powers to conduct foreign relations and has no statutory basis. This document provides an update on TPS and DED.
University of Texas at Austin - Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law: Metering Update
In April 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) leadership issued guidance that allowed officers to limit asylum seekers’ access to ports of entry. This guidance permitted CBP officers stationed at the United States’ international boundary with Mexico to inform arriving asylum seekers that U.S. ports of entry were full. Simultaneously, CBP officers also began accepting a specified number of asylum seekers each day, in a process that is known as metering. As metering spread across the border and a subsequent backlog of asylum seekers grew in Mexico’s border cities, Mexican authorities and civil society groups responded by providing humanitarian assistance and creating informal waitlists. Since November 2018, the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin has documented these informal lists through quarterly updates.
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