President Biden recently signed an executive order that addresses the U.S. Refugee Admissions program and other refugee-related issues. This action is intended to help the administration meet its 125,000 annual refugee cap by 2022—a more than 730 perce…
Asylum & Refugees
Senior Director for Transborder Security sounds like a serious job with big responsibilities. So who has the Biden administration hired to fill it? A public relations officer at the United Nations’ refugee agency. Though Katie Tobin has scant experienc…
On the same day that Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quickly announced the suspension of new enrollments in the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, known colloquially as “Remai…
The Trump administration finalized a major overhaul of the asylum system which will take effect January 11, 2021, just nine days before President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office. The U.S. asylum policies have long been open to rampant abuse and f…
As the United States experiences a surge of apprehensions on our Southern border, Americans should be asking what the next presidential administration will do to slow the flow of unlawful migrants into our country. With nearly 70,000 migrants apprehen…
A day before they were to take effect, a U.S. district court judge in California blocked rules that would exclude more criminal aliens from gaining asylum in this country. The new policy would have barred migrants charged in document fraud or multiple …
In the wake of a hurricane that killed an estimated 50-150 people, Guatemala is asking the U.S. to provide Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to its countrymen living here illegally. If approved, tens of thousands of Guatemalans illegally in the U.S. cou…
Policies put in place by the Trump administration have dramatically curtailed the practice of allowing large numbers of asylum seekers to enter the country pending a hearing on their claims. These policies have outraged advocates for migrants who see a…
More than 3,000 economic migrants started out from Honduras last week hoping to reach the U.S. border where they planned to ask for political asylum. Unlike earlier caravans, where many of the migrants made it to the U.S. border, this latest attempt at…
A little-publicized but fast-growing group of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. through Mexico has been coming from India. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) figures show that the number of Indians detained along America’s southern border swelled…