asylum

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/11/2021
  

  How Should the US Treat Migrants when American Policy Affected the Countries They Fled?

  The Temporary Protected Status designation, which has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, originated because of the massive human rights abuses of the US-supported dictatorship in El Salvador.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/28/2020
  

  Refugee Resettlement Is Close to Collapse. That Was Trump’s Plan.

  In the 40 years since the program was established, no refugee who has entered the country through the resettlement program has killed anyone in a terrorist attack in the United States. 

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• 7/19/2020
  

  SCOTUS's Thuraissigiam Decision is a Threat to all Undocumented Immigrants

  by Elliott Young

  As Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, a recent decision could “permit Congress to constitutionally eliminate all procedural protections for any noncitizen the Government deems unlawfully admitted and summarily deport them no matter how many decades they have lived here, how settled and integrated they are in their communities, or how many members of their family are U. S. citizens or residents.” 

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• 7/12/2020
  

  "The Day I Start Being Free": Detained Migrants Struggle for Human Rights

  by Jana Lipman

  The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the 1990s, who experienced detention and a bureaucratic process exposing them to dangerous repatriation, are a precedent for the treatment of asylum-seekers in contemporary America.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  How activists can defeat Trump’s latest assault on asylum seekers

  by Carly Goodman, S. Deborah Kang and Yael Schacher

  Immigration activists helped give power to asylum protections once before. They can do it again.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/23/19
  

  Charles Dickens Tried to Banish His Wife to an Asylum, Letters Show

  “This is a stronger and more damning account of Dickens’s behavior than any other."