Your weekly summary from the Council LATEST ANALYSIS Florida made headlines last year as it spent flew 50 unwitting migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in a political stunt that has already drawn multiple lawsuits. Now, Florida doubled down by passing a bill last month that authorizes state officials to spend state resources to relocate migrants within the United States. Read More » U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s app has the potential to make border processing more efficient. But the recent expansion of CBP One’s functions has been riddled with problems. Its flaws, coupled with the lack of access to appointments, are preventing people from successfully entering the United States to seek protection. Read More » It’s essential not to see the labor exploitation of migrant children as a sad but unavoidable tragedy. Rather, this is a story about two policy failures—one of which the Biden administration risks making much, much worse in the coming weeks. Read More » FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Read More: Building an Efficient and Humane Processing of Unaccompanied Children ACROSS THE NATION
Read more: Government Documents Reveal Information about the Development of the CBP One App QUOTE OF THE WEEK “We have spent the past decade pouring money into the border-security apparatus in an effort to deter asylum seekers. It hasn’t worked because we’ve spent all of that money on border security and we’ve spent almost none on actually building a functional and working humanitarian-protection system on the back end. And now we’ve got a two-million-case backlog, more than six hundred thousand asylum applications with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and three million people on ICE’s non-detained docket. This is not something that you’re going to be able to fix overnight. About the only thing the Biden Administration and Congress could do right now is just declare immigration bankruptcy and start all over again, and have amnesty, but there isn’t the political will for that right now, unfortunately.” MAKE A CONTRIBUTION
FURTHER READING
|
||||||
|