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Studies: France is a melting pot but discrimination lurks

Two landmark new studies in France are bursting myths about immigration at a time when xenophobic far-right discourse has gained more attention

The Independent UK

Improving, but still grim, conditions in immigration detention centers, California AG says

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report from the state Department of Justice shows that while conditions in California’s federal immigration detention facilities have improved since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, they remain grim.

Tribune News Service

Union Station: National ICE Council will separate from American Federation of Government Employees

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) announced on July 12 that it had filed paperwork with the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to relinquish its representational interest in AFGE Council 118, the National ICE Council, which represents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.

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Defense bill could be best shot for immigration changes - Roll Call

Provisions added to a sweeping defense bill could be the best chance Congress has of passing any immigration legislation this year.

Roll Call

Editorial: Dreaming on: Congress must approve protections for Documented Dreamers

When people talk about a desire for immigrants to “follow the rules” or “come the right way,” they more often than not have only hazy understandings of the way immigration policy actually works but are imagining something like a white-collar professional getting a work visa and coming here with spouse…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Biden should make reopening of Friendship Park a priority, not an afterthought

Last year, a Politico headline summarized President Joe Biden's immigration problem succinctly: "It's not just Republicans. Everyone's mad at Biden over migration." In the 2020 campaign, Biden promised a fair and humane immigration system and offered unrelenting criticism of then-President Donald Trump for his cruel rhetoric about and policies toward…

Tribune News Service

Keeping Out Hitler: Can Immigration Restrictions be Justified by the Need to Exclude Individuals who Might Cause Extraordinary Harm?

Critics of immigration restrictions often cite immigrants who make extraordinary contributions to the society. But what about the opposite case of immigrants who cause massive harm (like Hitler)? The argument deserves to be taken seriously. But it's ultimately much weaker than it seems.

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Farah case highlights fate of less famous victims of trafficking

Home Office accused of prioritising exceptional cases in immigration decisions

The Guardian - UK

Utah Wants To Help Afghan Refugees Prosper. Will the Federal Government Get in the Way?

The federal government set the tone on the beginning of the resettlement process. It continues to keep legal status for certain evacuees out of reach.

Reason

California built a safety net for millions of undocumented residents. Here’s how it happened

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Isabel Coronel, 76, walked into a hospital for the first time in almost 30 years last month.

Tribune News Service

Sir Mo Farah 'relieved' as immigration officials say he won't be investigated after coming out as human trafficking victim

London police look into Olympic star Mo Farah's revelation that he was illegally brought to the UK and forced into domestic slavery as a child.

ABC News

Biden Extends Temporary Status for Some Venezuelan Refugees, Offers No Protections for Recent Arrivals

While Temporary Protected Status will last through 2024, only Venezuelans who arrived before March 2021 will be eligible.

Reason

Court Strikes Down Ban on "Encourag[ing] or Induc[ing] an Alien to Come, Enter, or Reside" in the U.S.

The majority reads the statute broadly, and holds it's unconstitutionally overbroad; the dissent would read it more narrowly, as limited to constitutionally unprotected solicitation of specific criminal conduct.

Reason

Renegade District Attorneys Who Defy State Mandates Are Often Freedom's Last Line of Defense

Perhaps, as we relearn the virtues of local decision-making, we'll also reacquire a taste for individualism.

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Migrants say US policy at border is leading to abuse by Mexican authorities

MONTERREY, Mexico — A campaign by Mexican governors, under pressure by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to stem the flow of migrants from Central America and beyond to Texas has led to a surge of complaints of abuse by state authorities, including violent attacks, extortion and even forcing migrants to disembark…

Los Angeles Times

ICE banned from using contractors to arrest immigrants at California jails, prisons

A California lawsuit has ended with a settlement that bans U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from leaning on private contractors to arrest immigrants at state prisons and jails and send them to deportation proceedings.

Reuters

Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives, protesters storm prime minister's office

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, driven out after an economic collapse unleashed a popular uprising that appeared to end his family's near two-decade dominance of the country.

Reuters

Biden says immigration is a shared hemispheric challenge for Mexico, U.S

U.S. President Joe Biden said that dealing with immigration was a shared hemispheric challenge for both the United States and Mexico as Mexico's leader visited the White House on Tuesday.

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Roll Call

Immigration agency taps community leaders to promote citizenship

Eight citizenship ambassadors will receive training to promote green card holders to apply for naturalization.

Evening Standard

Comedian and immigration lawyer Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes: ‘The Rwanda policy doesn’t make sense’

Discovered while working in a pub, the comic has to take holiday allowance from her legal work to make her Edinburgh Fringe debut next month

The Independent UK

Biden to discuss immigration, trade with Mexico's president

President Joe Biden is preparing to meet with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Reuters

Seething Sri Lanka stops president's brother flying out of the country

Sri Lankan immigration officials stopped the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country on Tuesday, as anger mounted over the island's worst economic crisis in decades.

Reason

Utah Online Marriages "Upend" Israeli Marriage Debates

[UPDATE: Though this is a practically important matter, it also just cries out "joke fodder" to me. I have no idea how it would go ("a rabbi, a Mormon, and a bride walk into a bar …"?), but I can just feel there's something there! Please post your candidates in…

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Biden extends temporary protected status for eligible Venezuelans to March 2024

Eligible Venezuelans will be able to live in the United States with temporary protected status for another 18 months, the Biden administration announced Monday, although Venezuelans who have arrived in the country after March 8, 2021, will not be eligible for the immigration relief.

The Times of India

Wait time for green cards backed by employers rises

BENGALURU: Employer sponsored green card processing delays have crossed the three-year wait time in 2022. David J Bier, associate director of immigration studies at Cato Institute, wrote on the US think tank’s blog, “Paying a $2,500 fee could cut this wait to “only” 2 years and 5 months. The government…

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