June provided hope for a more constructive approach to addressing accelerating migration throughout the Western Hemisphere. …

May was supposed to mark the end of Title 42, but flimsy lawsuits filed by a number of Republican governors have blocked the Administration’s efforts to terminate the disgraceful policy. Meanwhile, news broke of egregious misconduct by both CBP and ICE: CBP announced it will disband units responsible for protecting…

The courts drove immigration news this month: an onslaught of lawsuits could delay the Biden administration’s plan to rescind Title 42 and the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging the administration’s effort to end the Remain in Mexico program. Amid the Biden administration’s struggles to undo some of the most harmful…

Preliminary data from Customs and Border Protection indicates there will be more than 200,000 encounters along the southern border this March, which would mark the highest monthly total since August. Although a large percentage of these encounters are of individuals trying to cross multiple times after being expelled, the fixation…

by Marshall Fitz and Hal Harvey Climate change’s ravages can no longer be disconnected from their impact on forced migration. Here’s what to know. Picture yourself looking over scorched crops that have failed for the second year in a row as temperatures rise and famine takes hold. Or picture yourself…

The immigration movement has spent much of this month caught in a holding pattern. Build Back Better — and the potential immigration provisions within it — is still stalled in the Senate. …

2022 started off during a particularly rough time for the immigration reform movement. Right before the holidays, the Parliamentarian rejected the latest immigration proposal we had advanced for the Build Back Better legislation (which itself remains in a precarious state). The new year also prompted us to zoom out: groups…

The House passed the Build Back Better bill in November, which includes measures that would grant work permits to more than 6 million undocumented people. The Senate will vote on the bill next, but first we must secure the Parliamentarian’s approval on the immigration provisions. Meanwhile, record numbers of Venezuelan…

Democrats remain focused on legalizing as many people as possible through budget reconciliation. After the Parliamentarian rejected our first two proposals for a path to citizenship, Democratic senators moved to pitch legislation that would grant work permits to millions of undocumented people. Despite the initial setbacks, we are determined to…