Trump’s record-low refugee resettlement ceiling represents a trend of declining admissions that has been going on for nearly two decades, writes Stephanie J. Nawyn.
Lower Refugee Limits are Weakening Resettlement in US
Category: Immigration
Displaced by Desert: Expanding Sahara Leaves Broken Families & Violence in its Wake
Issa Sikiti da Silva reports on the struggles for many in the Sahel, the area between the Sahara in the north and the Sudanian Savanna in the south where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth.
Civil Rights on High Court Chopping Block in New Term
The cases concern everything from firing people who are LGBTQ, to abortion restrictions that disproportionately affect low-income women, to deportations, to the scope of the Second Amendment, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Italy’s Confused, Radicalized Response to Migrants
Attilio Moro calls for concrete policies to tame the forces of global capitalism which, while overlooked by both sides of the debate, have been driving mass illegal immigration.
US Revives Clause That Kept Nazi-Era Refugees Out of the Country
A clause in U.S. immigration law that restricted those “likely to become a public charge” has made a disturbing comeback, reports Laurel Leff.
WATCH: CN Live! Kim Dotcom, Bill Binney, Mike Gravel Episode 4
Mike Gravel discusses this week’s Democratic debates he was shut out of; plus CN Live!‘s interview with Kim Dotcom on the DNC and Podesta leaks, and who leaked them, is dissected by Bill Binney, former NSA technical director.
Left Unchecked, Trump Will Obliterate Right to Asylum
The president’s new asylum rule extends his systematic assault on migrants and undermines well-established law, says Marjorie Cohn.
The Trump Administration’s ‘Contrived’ Citizenship Question
Justices last week confronted the White House’s false justification for its illegal and racist motive in trying to add the question, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Waiting for Your Asylum Number to Get Called
Colonel Ann Wright reports on the life in limbo for people along the southern border who are applying for refuge in the U.S.
ICE Detainees on Hunger Strike Being Force-Fed Like Those at Guantánamo
Organizations ranging from the ACLU to Human Rights Watch condemn the practice as “inherently cruel, inhuman, and degrading,” writes A. Naomi Paik.