Jun 7, 2022
The Boston asylum office approved 15.5% of cases between 2015 and 2020, the nations second lowest rate. The Maine organizations argued in their report that the Boston office is “dominated by a culture of suspicion and distrust toward asylum seekers.” They said they...
May 26, 2022
Poland is rushing to build a border wall and taking a harder line against those helping asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa while welcoming Ukrainians. Source: At Poland’s borders, Ukrainians are welcomed while refugees from elsewhere face a growing...
May 23, 2022
As the politics of immigration ramp up, Utah is proving that bipartisan and public-private collaboration is still possible. Source: Utah Once Again Leads by Example on Immigrant Inclusion, by Leani Garcia Torres | May 18,...
May 11, 2022
Record numbers are attempting the treacherous continent-crossing route through the Darién Gap to the United States. Here’s one person’s story. Source: A Cuban asylum seeker’s dangerous odyssey, The New Humanitarian, by Joshua Collins, May 10, 2022; Additional...
Apr 29, 2022
On August 2nd Rahmat Jafari, editor of three of The Fruit of Our Labor films, contacted me. He asked about new US Congressional legislation that I had also just heard about in the news. The US Congress passed special legislation to allow US media organizations...
