Immigration
Border Democrats like Cuellar hold key to Biden’s U.S. immigration reform | Reuters
Biden administration announces end to Trump era rule where USCIS rejected certain immigration applications with blank spaces
The Biden Administration Is Telling Asylum Seekers They Still Have to Wait
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration will continue to expel asylum seekers under a Trump-era policy that effectively had shut down the southern border. “Due to the pandemic and the fact that we have not had time as an administration to put in place a humane, comprehensive process for processing individuals who are coming to the border,” Psaki said, “now is not the time to come.”
Biden immigration policy looks beyond reversing Trump
Trump finalizes sweeping asylum restrictions in last-minute immigration push
Trump administration finalizes sweeping asylum limits
The Trump administration has finalized a regulation that would place more limits on migrants seeking refuge in the United States, the latest in a series of rules that make it exceedingly difficult to claim asylum in the US and serving as yet another example of the challenges an incoming Biden administration will face in undoing President Donald Trump's policies.
Trump immigration policies won’t be easy for Biden to reverse
Family separations. The travel ban. The wall. Gutting the asylum and refugee systems. Pushing to abolish DACA.Those policies implemented by President Donald Trump helped define his legacy, fulfilling some of his campaign promises while enraging many Americans and further isolating the U.S. from the world. President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to reverse most of those restrictionist policies, but it could take months, or even many years, to do so.
Remain in Mexico immigration program dwindles as Trump administration deports more migrants using new policies
Exclusive: After Cabinet opposed Mexican cartel policy, Trump forged ahead
In the weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration last month that he would forge ahead with designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Another key concern was that the designations could make it easier for migrants to win asylum in the United States by claiming they were fleeing terrorism, the senior administration official and two other sources said.
In a first, U.S. starts pushing Central American families seeking asylum to Guatemala
For the first time, U.S. officials have begun pushing even asylum-seeking families who are not from Guatemala to that country, the Los Angeles Times has learned. The Trump administration had said a new policy effectively ending asylum at the U.S. southern border and removing asylum seekers to Central America would initially only be applied to single adults.
Asylum officers rebel against Trump immigration policies they say are immoral, illegal
US, Mexico Widen Asylum Crackdown to Push Back All Migrants
Mexico Says No to Safe Third-Country Asylum Discussion With U.S.
ACLU Files Suit to Block Trump Rule to Stop Asylum-Seekers
Supreme Court denies Trump administration request to immediately enforce new asylum rules
Trump golf club housekeeper who admitted she’s undocumented asks for asylum
Separated parents would get another chance at asylum under settlement proposal
Migrant parents who failed an asylum screening after being separated from their children at the border would get another chance to seek refuge under a proposed settlement agreement filed Wednesday evening. In the proposal, the Trump administration does not agree to bring deported parents back to the U.S.