Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, and Madeleine Greene, MPI, Dec. 10, 2024 "... This article reviews the Biden administration’s track record on immigration...
Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, Dec. 9, 2024 "President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end birthright citizenship during his second term. Could he actually do it? ... [A]ccording to legal experts...
Cornell Law writes: "On behalf of Steve Yale-Loehr , we want to extend our gratitude for your participation in The (Im)possibility of Immigration Reform symposium. We had an awe-inspiring amount of...
Zachary Schermerle, USA Today, Dec. 8, 2024 "Trump’s immigration rhetoric is already impacting college students; Yale and Cornell are among the universities cautioning foreign students against...
The Beinart Notebook, Dec. 8, 2024 "Our guest is Muzaffar Chishti , Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, and one of America’s foremost experts on immigration policy. We’ll...
Erica Bryant, VERA, Sept. 2021
"[A]ttorneys report this pattern: people who have been declared mentally incompetent due to cognitive disabilities or mental illnesses are ejected from immigration detention facilities without any notice to their attorneys, families, or caregivers and are left to fend for themselves in places like parking lots and bus stations, with only the clothes they had when they were arrested and debit cards they often can’t activate. Some are never found. While legal service providers have reported unsafe releases from immigration detention for years, many say that the problem worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, as ICE abruptly released people in undignified and dangerous manners; people who were sick with or at high risk of contracting the virus. Despite their obvious health needs and medical complications, many people were literally abandoned on the street."