Updates | The Week of November 20, 2017
Britany Riley // 11/26/17 //
The Trump administration announced that 59,000 Haitians living in the United States under a temporary status must leave within the next year-and-a-half (NYT, LATimes).
- The Department of Homeland Security should extend the temporary protected status that was granted to 50,000 Haitian after a 2010 hurricane, argues the New York Times Editorial Board.
Advocates for Dreamers decided to table their request for documents detailing the Trump administration’s decision to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, choosing instead to seek a preliminary injunction before the March 5 deadline (Politico).
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has proposed an automated “Extreme Vetting Initiative”—it is both discriminatory and ineffective, writes Faiza Patel at Just Security.
In a systematic, but less visible way, the Trump administration is building a type of border wall through policy changes (WaPo).
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Border patrol checkpoints are a poor use of resources—they should be shut down, writes Alex Nowrasteh at Cato at Liberty.
Fair-minded leaders and everyday people must push back against the nativist narrative slipping into public discourse—we should protect the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, writes Albert Fox Cahn for Just Security.