El Paso, TX USA May 9, 2023 – Days before the end of Title 42 migrants turned themselves in to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. After a flyer was given out encouraging them to. (Shutterstock)...
How To Seek Asylum (Under Biden’s Asylum Transit Ban), In 15 Not-At-All-Easy Steps
By Dara Lind, Immigration Impact Back in February, when the Biden administration proposed a new regulation that would essentially restrict the vast majority of border crossers from qualifying for asyl...
Mayor Adams Urges Biden Administration to Provide Expedited, Emergency Path to Work Authorization for Asylum Seekers Ahead of Title 42 Lifting
With Over 34,000 Asylum Seekers Still Currently in City’s Care and No Hope for Support from Republicans in Congress, Mayor Adams Calls on White House to Expand Temporary Protective Status and Humani...
Fighting to Protect Caribbean LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers in NYC
Unchained members and CEP leadership with NYC Council Member Rita Joseph. Photo courtesy of Caribbean Equality Project. Listen to a special podcast below By Xoë Sazzle and Mohamed Q. Amin Since its i...
On Trip to Washington, Mayor Adams Blames Migrant Crisis for Holding Back NYC’s Recovery: ‘The City is Being Destroyed’
New York City, NY USA October 19, 2022. Migrants started arriving at the emergency relief center on Randall’s Island where tents hold up to 500 cots and other facilities for single adult men. (S...
Three Years of Title 42
Members of Rise and Resist movement rally at Grand Central Terminal in New York against Title 42 used to deprive asylum seekers of their rights on March 9, 2023 (Shutterstock) By Alex Miller, Immigrat...
US and Canada Expand Safe Third Country Agreement in Another Move to Limit Asylum
TORONTO – NOVEMBER 22: People with signs which has a Canadian Flag welcoming refugees from Syria during a solidarity rally to welcome Syrian refugees to Canada on November 22, 2015 in Toronto, C...
Where the ‘Migrant Protection Protocols’ Stand, Four Years After Going Into Effect
Mission, TX, USA – Feb. 16, 2023: A Border Patrol agent speaks to the suspected coyote who led a group of 15 Central Americans and Mexicans across the Rio Grande River illegally to enter the U.S...
This Is Pretty Simple, Mr. President: Don’t Restart Family Detention
DETROIT, MICHIGAN – JUNE 30, 2018: An activist in Detroit holds a protest sign that says “Stop Separating Families.” (Shutterstock) By Dara Lind, Immigration Impact The Biden adminis...
Experts: Asylum Solutions Welcome People With Dignity
Washington – Immigration and asylum experts outlined a series of real solutions the administration, Congress, and state and local governments should implement today to restore the legal right to asy...