Nadine Sebai, Nina Sparling, Bruce Gil, The Public's Radio, Sept. 18, 2023 "The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating possible violations of child labor, overtime pay, and anti-retaliation...
Jules Ownby, EL PAÍS USA, Oct. 2, 2023 "Secret offices, weeks of waiting, calls from private numbers and confidentiality agreements. These are some of the features of the new U.S. immigration...
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Sept. 27, 2023 "The U.S. will aim to resettle up to 50,000 refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean in the next 12 months as part of a Biden administration...
Janelle Retka, Samantha McCabe, Jiahui Huang and María Inés Zamudio, The Center for Public Integrity, Sept. 28, 2023 "As climate change accelerates natural catastrophes, the disaster...
[ Editor's Note: I put "surge" in quotes because migration into the USA has ebbed and flowed for 200 years. As one famous person said, be not afraid.] Cornell Keynotes, Sept. 22, 2023 ...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Aug. 1, 2023
"Chad Wolf’s Illegitimate Border Wall Waivers: A Q&A with Scott Nicol
President Biden Could Instantly Make Good on His Campaign Promise to Stop Border Wall Construction by Cancelling Trump-Era Waivers, says Nicol.
... [T]here are 11 waivers that Wolf issued, and 10 more that McAleenan issued. If a court strikes down the one waiver, then by extension, the others could also be contested and eventually struck down. For some of these waivers, those walls haven’t been built yet. For instance, in Starr County, there’s a waiver that Wolf issued where walls have never been built. But there’s a lot of places where they have. These waivers continue to get relied on to rebuild walls or add to walls and do other things in conjunction with them. So striking 21 waivers would definitely make a difference.
Having a waiver in place saves the Biden administration from having to issue a waiver. They’re just relying on the bad thing that Trump did, so as not to have to do the bad thing themselves. ..."