This is a gross manipulation of the U.S. refugee program to advance explicitly racialized and exclusionary immigration policies.
Let Them Stay Update #10
Even as several challenges have been brought regarding their legality, arrests at immigration courts continue, and the vast majority of them have no criminal records.
Refugees International Concerned by U.S.–Costa Rica Third Country National Deportation Deal
Some people being deported to Costa Rica may be asylum seekers who were never given a fair chance to present their cases in the United States.
More than 200 Organizations and Experts Call for an End to Trump’s Threats of War Crimes and Call for Accountability
A threat to wipe out “a whole civilization” may amount to a threat of genocide. The law is clear that civilians must not be targeted.
U.S./Israel–Iran War on Course for Cataclysmic Civilian Harm, Displacement, and Humanitarian Need
If this evolves into a long-term war, and if internal conflict emerges in Iran, the humanitarian consequences could worsen dramatically.
America, Forty-Three Years After Reagan’s “Evil Empire” Speech
On March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan warned that the Soviet Union was “the focus of evil in the modern world” and urged Americans to resist “the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.” Years later, in his Farewell Address, he called America a shining city on a hill. Together, those ideas shaped the moral vocabulary…
Death of Rohingya Refugee After Abandonment by CBP Requires Investigation
We are saddened by the needless death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee who had been detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Protection, Not Concession: Mexico’s Responsibility to Third Country Nationals Deported by the United States
The United States is deporting thousands of third country nationals to Mexico using coercive tactics, including enforced disappearances.
Refugees International Condemns DHS Memo Authorizing Detention of Thousands of Lawfully Admitted Refugees
The move is historically unprecedented and based on false and hateful distortions of both refugees and U.S. law.
A Generational Collapse: Tracking the Toll of Trump’s Humanitarian Aid Cuts
The consequences have been deadly and devastating and are now beginning to come into focus. Will humanitarian funding ever rebound?