Asylum seekers may soon find that instead of waiting until they arrive at the US-Mexico border to meet with a US immigration official, they can schedule an appointment to meet with officials at processing centers in Latin American, far from the border, who will determine their eligibility for relocation, asylum…

Welcome to another edition of #TechTuesday, an intermittent post about the ways that academic research intersects with technology. Today I want to discuss a few niche consumer-level applications I use all the time because I find them extremely helpful. This post was originally published here: https://austinkocher.substack.com/. It’s worth emphasizing at…

DACA turns 10 years old on Wednesday, June 15 — an anniversary that was hardly a foregone conclusion given years of legal challenges. …

The Biden administration is on track to increase the number of refugees admitted into the United States from about 11,400 last year in FY 2021 to about 19,000 by the end of this fiscal year in September. …

It’s Friday! But before you check out of the week, read (or skim) these really important announcements in the immigration world. Table of Contents No Vetted Director at ICE for Over Five Years Public defenders are now handling deportation cases in Cook County Russian Military is Deporting Ukrainians During the War Hundreds of…

Immigrant detention has been controversial from the days of Ellis and Angel Islands in the late 1800s through the emergence of a for-profit detention system in the 1980s and up until today. Although immigration restrictionists and many DHS officials view immigrant detention as necessary to deter immigration to the United…

Just a quick announcement today related to recent research published by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. The number of immigrants currently held in detention centers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the lowest since May 2021, with ICE’s detained population declining to 17,984 at the end…

According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi this morning, more than half a million people have fled Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion of the country and sustained fighting that has taken place over the last several days. The European response to Ukrainians fleeing the…

If you find yourself downloading and organizing a lot of PDF documents, particularly for research purposes, you can save yourself a considerable amount of time by automating parts of this process. After receiving a few curious responses to a post about this yesterday on Twitter, I decided to write up…