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New Policies Will Be Made to Deal With the Immigration Crisis at U.S. Borders

New Policies Will Be Made to Deal With the Immigration Crisis at U.S. Borders

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Posted by Aiden Huang. Colgate Class of 2023 Source: Parti, T., & Hackman, M. (2022, April 18). “U.S.-Mexico Border Arrests Top One Million in Six Months”. WSJ.  The immigration crisis due to the pandemic and the recent wars has put huge pressure on U.S. borders. Since October, the U.S. has arrested more than a million illegal immigrants — the fastest pace of illegal border crossing in about two decades. On the other hand, only 11,397 people were permitted to enter…

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Britain to Deny Entrance and Send Refugees to Rwanda

Britain to Deny Entrance and Send Refugees to Rwanda

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Posted by Ryan Moffatt, Colgate University Class of 2023 Castle, Stephen, et al. “U.K. Plans to Send Some Asylum Seekers to Rwanda.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/world/europe/uk-rwanda-asylum-seekers.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article. Britain is in the process of implementing a new plan that would deny certain refugees entrance to the country and send them to Rwanda. The plan would stop refugees and asylum seekers from entering Britain, instead forcing them to relocate to Rwanda. The U.K would be…

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C.D.C Confirms It Will Lift Public Health Order Restricting Immigration

C.D.C Confirms It Will Lift Public Health Order Restricting Immigration

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Posted by Nina Armideo, Colgate University Class of 2022 Source: Sullivan, E. (2022, April 1). C.D.C. Confirms It Will Lift Public Health Order Restricting Immigration. The New York Times. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/us/politics/cdc-immigration-title-42.html On May 23, the United States will lift Title 42, an order which gives border officials control to prevent migrants and asylum seekers from entering the United States. This was an emergency public health order which was intended to reduce the spread of the pandemic….

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Biden Administration Prepares Sweeping Change to Asylum Process

Biden Administration Prepares Sweeping Change to Asylum Process

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Posted by Emma Lombardo. Colgate class of 2022.  Source: Sullivan, Eileen. “Biden Administration Prepares Sweeping Change to Asylum Process.” The New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022. Under the Biden administration’s new policy, immigrants seeking asylum in the United States will be able to have their claims evaluated by asylum officers instead of immigration judges. With more than 670,000 cases pending, this plan will take the burden off of backlogged immigration courts, as well as greatly shorten the process. The new process is…

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A Pandemic Rule is Among the Trump-Era Immigration Policies That Has Divided the White House

A Pandemic Rule is Among the Trump-Era Immigration Policies That Has Divided the White House

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Posted by Jack Selati. Colgate Class of 2023 Source: Kanno-youngs, Zolan, and Michael. “A Pandemic Rule Is among the Trump-Era Immigration Policies That Has Divided the White House.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022,https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/politics/a-pandemic-rule-is-among-the-trump-era-immigration-policies-that-has-divided-the-white-house.html.  Recently, policy disputes over immigration have been prevalent within the White House as both parties argue over the imminent surge of immigrants crossing the southwestern U.S. border. When Biden was initially elected President, he vowed to regress the unfair and inhumane…

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Impacts of Lifting Title 42

Impacts of Lifting Title 42

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Barr, Luke. “US Bracing for Influx of Migrants at Southern Border If Title 42 Revoked: DHS.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 29 Mar. 2022, https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-bracing-influx-migrants-southern-border-title-42/story?id=83751437.  With the outbreak of COVID in 2020, the Trump administration implemented Title 42, a policy that allows the United States border control to prohibit people from entering the country to prevent the spreading of COVID, which was deemed a public health emergency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently evaluating Title 42 to…

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Thousands of Afghans in U.S. Get Deportation Protections

Thousands of Afghans in U.S. Get Deportation Protections

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Source: Hackman, M. (2022, March 16). Thousands of Afghans in U.S. Get Deportation Protections. Wall Street Journal. When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, a humanitarian crisis ensued and all Afghan nationals with connections to the United States faced threats to their safety. While more than 70,000 Afghans were evacuated alongside thousands of Americans in August of 2021 and granted a temporary legal status called parole, more than 2,000 Afghans that were already in the…

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Undocumented Parents Have Weathered a Pandemic With No Saftey Net

Undocumented Parents Have Weathered a Pandemic With No Saftey Net

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Source: Loria, M (2022, February 10). Undocumented Parents Have Weathered a Pandemic With No Safety Net. Washington Post.  From the struggles of remote learning, being separated from loved ones, and the stress of job loss and wage cuts, the coronavirus pandemic has presented its fair share of challenges for many families across the United States. However, the undocumented immigrant community has faced an additional sense of devastation as they have few places to turn to for help during these difficult…

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Hong Kong Immigration Law Change Raises Exit Ban Fears

Hong Kong Immigration Law Change Raises Exit Ban Fears

Post by Rachel Racette. Class of 2022. Source: Liu, N. (2021, April 28). Hong Kong immigration law change raises ‘exit ban’ fears. Financial Times. The article discusses newly passed legislation that would allow Hong Kong authorities to prevent Hong Kong residents and other people from leaving the city. The law is set to take effect on August 1st and although the legislation was originally intended to ease Hong Kong’s asylum numbers, there are fears that it could be used as…

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Illegal Border Crossings Near Two-Decade High, Mayorkas Says

Illegal Border Crossings Near Two-Decade High, Mayorkas Says

Post by Nick Potter. Colgate Class of 2022. Source: Hackman, M. (2021, March 17). “Illegal Border Crossings Near Two-Decade High, Mayorkas Says.” Wall Street Journal. Through the first few months of 2021, the United States in on pace to see the largest number of illegal immigrants crossing its southern border in 20 plus years, according to homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Several factors are contributing to the massive uptick in illegal immigration: first, the Biden administration’s undoing of Trump’s anti-immigration…

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