White House, Sept. 29, 2023 "Memorandum on Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2024 Presidential Determination No. 2023-13 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions...
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 plan to welcome as many as 125,000 people fleeing violence across...
Presidential Determination No. 2023–04 of February 24, 2023 - "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962...
Prof. Karen Musalo, Feb. 8, 2023 "The Biden administration is poised to resurrect a Trump-era policy, the transit ban , which in its most recent form was repeatedly struck down by the courts as unlawful. The new transit ban, the subject of a notice...
Janine Prantl and Stephen Yale-Loehr, Jan. 30, 2023 "On January 19, the U.S. State Department announced the launch of Welcome Corps , a new private refugee sponsorship pilot program. Under Welcome Corps, groups of at least five individuals and community...
Stuart Anderson, Jan. 26, 2023 "... Trump's policies did not reduce illegal immigration or discourage people from applying for asylum. Pending asylum cases rose by nearly 300 percent between FY 2016 and FY 2020 (from 163,451 to 614,751), according ...
State Department, Jan. 19, 2023 "The Department of State, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, is pleased to announce the creation of the Welcome Corps, a new private sponsorship program that empowers everyday Americans to play...
NILA, May 8, 2023 "This advisory addresses lawsuits in federal district court seeking to compel USCIS and/or DOS to complete processing of delayed adjudications of Form I-730 refugee follow-to-join petitions."
White House, May 1, 2023 "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)(1)) (MRAA), I hereby determine...
White House, May 1, 2023 "MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 2...
USCIS, Feb. 2, 2023 "... To promote consistency in the processing of asylee and refugee adjustment of status applications and reduce barriers that might impede refugees from timely filing for adjustment of status, USCIS is updating policy guidance to clarify...
Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase, Jan. 18, 2023 "“Those of us who care about people on the wrong side of history just have to help case by case, person by person.” - Anne Pilsbury, quoted in Francisco Goldman, “Escape to New York, ” The New Yorker , Aug. 9, 2016. ...
Camila Bustos, Jeffrey Chase, Just Security, November 14, 2022 "As severe weather patterns intensify, climate change will continue to displace communities across the globe. The World Bank estimates that there could be more than 143 million people internally...
Janine Prantl, Stephen Yale-Loehr, NY Daily News, Oct. 15, 2022 "Every fall, the U.S. president sets a refugee ceiling — the maximum number of refugees that may be resettled annually to the United States. For the new fiscal year that started Oct. 1, President...
Michael A. Clemens, May 2022 "International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic...