Kathryn Hampton, Michele Heisler, Cynthia Pompa, Alana Slavin, July 28, 2021 "Toward the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the Trump administration overrode the objections of public health experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Vaccine xenophobia against immigrants and refugees must end FATEN TAKI, GUNISHA KAUR AND STEPHEN YALE-LOEHR, July 24, 2021 "None of us can be completely safe if any group or nation is left behind. To achieve herd immunity, vaccine access should be a basic...
Jake Bleiberg, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, July 13, 2021 "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue an order this week about how migrant children are treated under a public health order that has prevented people from seeking asylum...
July 1, 2021 letter to HHS, CDC "We are writing to follow up again on our January 28 letter to Dr. Walensky to urge the CDC to rescind in its entirety the order issued under Title 42 in March 2020 and repeatedly extended since, that continues to unethically...
Stef W. Kight, Axios, June 20, 2021 "The White House is considering ending — as early as July 31 — the use of a Trump-era public health order that's let U.S. border officials quickly turn back migrant families to Mexico, Axios has learned. ... President...
Merlys Rodriguez-Hernandez, M.D., Tara C. Pilato, B.A., Kayleigh A. Yerdon, B.S., Ian M. Kysel, J.D., L.L.M., Faten Taki, Ph.D., Stephen Yale-Loehr, J.D., Gunisha Kaur, M.D., illustrated by Alison E. Burke, M.A., and Natalie Koscal, M.A., May 8, 2021 "This...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box*, May 3, 2021 "In previous blogs we have discussed the Trump administration’s numerous COVID travel bans that were extended by President Biden, and provided suggestions for overcoming them. On Friday, April 30, 2021, a new...
DOJ OIG, Apr. 2021 Limited-Scope Review of the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic "EOIR has had to balance difficult, sometimes conflicting challenges presented by the pandemic. We found that EOIR...
RSVP here for this online live-stream, Thursday, Mar. 25, 2021, 2:30 - 4:00 PM Pacific "Dr. Natalia Molina is a Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of two award-winning...
Angelo A. Paparelli, Mar. 3, 2021 Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry Bans "“America is back, the trans...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Feb. 28, 2021 "Although the Trump era has ended, some of its draconian immigration policies continue to linger, including the COVID travel bans. On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued Presidential Proclamation 10143 , entitled...
Angelo A. Paparelli, Dawn Lurie, Feb. 23, 2021 "Globe-hoppers of the world, too long cabined and constrained by the pandemic, are exhilarated at the prospect of imminent foreign travel. Many have received the vaccine and are poised to fly far away for business...
Caitlin Patler, PhD, Jackie Gonzalez, JD, Hamid Yazdan Panah, JD, Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Feb. 2021 "The COVID-19 pandemic exposes a federal immigration detention system of imprisonment without trial that has long failed to properly ensure the...
CBP, Feb. 4, 2021 "Effective Feb. 2, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is enforcing the requirement that travelers wear face masks at all air, land and sea ports of entry in the United States in accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order ...
Physicians for Human Rights, Jan. 12, 2021 - Praying for Hand Soap and Masks "The harsh and punitive conditions reported in this study show that ICE practices did not comply with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance or with ICE’s own Pandemic...