The public has a right & a duty to understand immigration policy. I used to help out with that as a reporter; now I do it at @immcouncil. All tweets my own.
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story here: texastribune.org/2024/08/23/…
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We don’t have any system of monitoring the safety of people deported to anywhere. Period.
It’s a simple question: Did the Biden administration make sure none of the passengers on a June deportation flight to China are members of ethnic groups the U.S. government has said are facing genocide?
But getting an answer has been close to impossible.
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Not watching the debate but following it on here is like dying from cancer from second-hand smoke
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I think @DLind is no longer on the bird app, but we have to bring back "Trump made word noises out of his mouth hole" for stuff like his spitballing about green cards.
RT @SaqibIslam: Another Upset:
Afghanistan beats New Zealand by 84 Runs. Kiwis all out on 75 in 15.2 runs. #AFGvNZ
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We explained exactly this dynamic in our analysis of Tuesday's actions.
An executive order and an asylum ban fundamentally do not address the basic operational, diplomatic, and legal limitations that would be required to just turn everyone away. americanimmigrationcouncil.o…
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People from more than 100 countries crossed the Darién Gap last year
The Gap going global is challenging aid groups in the region and governments alike
LATEST by me with Timothy O'Farrel for @newhumanitarian
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One piece of advice I got early in my career + often repeat: You SHOULD be at least *a little* worried that you got everything right the night before a story comes out. If you're not, you may be prone to overconfidence + certitude + this probably isn't the right business for you.
Meanwhile, most reporters and nonfiction writers are gripped by what @MauriceChammah calls "the error terrors": staring at the ceiling at 3 a.m. right before a story comes out, agonizing over whether you made the teeniest, tiniest mistake
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Title 42 is sometimes touted as the solution to illegal crossings at the US border
While the nearly 3 million expulsions might indicate success, the number of migrants crossing the US border without being intercepted actually surged
Our article explains: migrationpolicy.org/article/…
ALT Migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border, by month, 2019-24
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San Diego has surpassed Tucson, becoming the top border region for migrant arrivals for the first time in decades. I wrote about the history of of migration route shifts (h/t @adam_wola)
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San Diego, California (blue) is now the busiest of Border Patrol's 9 U.S.-Mexico border sectors. Migrant arrivals rose 36% in 2 weeks.
Volunteers providing humanitarian aid to asylum seekers waiting in open-air sites have a wishlist for needed items here: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/33…
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“The policy has basically been to wear people down, so send them from the north to the south and dump them in the south so they have to make their way back up.” ft.com/content/d0676cde-316b…
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It's terrible to lose such a talented reporter
Today is my last day @wamu885.
It's bittersweet. I believe in the mission of local journalism. &I respect and admire my colleagues - including @margaretbarthel, @ecwilliams30, @kaylahhewitt, @WhyBlitz, @yesl_kim - so much. But I need to step away from WAMU and the news industry.
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🚨New Report about asylum seekers and migrants at the 🇺🇸-🇲🇽border👇
“Kidnappings were always known, but they were not as normal as they are now,” a religious worker told @WOLA_org about the migrant population they work with in #Tamaulipas #Mexico 🧵1/3
wola.org/analysis/kidnapping…
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"The world doesn’t produce refugees on a bespoke basis. It produces them at industrial scale, as collateral damage from global upheavals." @DLind
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Daily #Border Links: March 27, 2024
CBP data for first 21 days of March point to a very rare springtime reduction in #migration at the border since February. Stepped-up interdiction in #Mexico may be the reason.
For a version with working links, go to borderoversight.org/news
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Literally the best story I have ever seen
“The black bear is the most common bear in the forests of North America - where it is unlikely they are given giant plastic watercraft”
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Yup. When we interviewed migrants on the Mexico side last year, they were trying and retrying repeatedly until an appointment could be secured. Many had been trying for months.
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Great piece by @camiloreports
It is common for migrant flows to shift from sector to sector often due to a variety of intersecting reasons.
Currently AZ and CA are recording 60% of encounters btwn POEs, a notable shift away from TX.
The flow of migrants crossing into the US illegally has largely shifted away from Texas, concentrating instead in Arizona and California, where officials are now recording roughly 60% of all unlawful border crossings, internal statistics show.
My latest:
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