When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two World Wars seldom, if ever, did anyone classify them as “illegal” migrants. Source: Migrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’, IPS, Inter Press Service, by Baher Kamal, Dec 19...
Thousands who escaped to the U.S. are stuck in immigration limbo. As the Taliban regime retook the country, more than 79,000 Afghans were evacuated to the U.S. When [their] humanitarian parole expires, these Afghans can’t legally stay in the U.S., and the risk of...
Black immigrants in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) disproportionately face abuse while in detention, a report released last week finds…the report argues that this discriminatory treatment of Black immigrants is the result of the...
Since the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Kabul last year, the Sponsor Circle Program for Afghans has helped over 600 Afghans restart their lives. The Biden administration is preparing to turn the experiment into a private-sponsorship program for refugees admitted...
Bureaucracy, corruption, violence, and US political pressure are all stalling the human flow. Source: As numbers rise, the hardships of migration through Mexico multiply, The New Humanitarian, by Lillian Perlmutter, September 21,...