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Two related questions on this for Nick, Kevin, & others reporting on the story: (1) Did this development blindside the Biden Administration? I’m hearing ‘no,’ which makes sense given the
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The Trump policy closing the border to asylum seekers during the pandemic (Title 42) put Biden in a bind from day 1. The policy was adopted in bad faith, w
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Chad Wolf is stepping down w barely a week left in Trump’s term. For many months Wolf’s been dogged by legal questions (& court judgments) abt how he was serving
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As usual, so much vying for our attention. But tonight two members of Biden team gave the most detailed interview to date abt incoming Admin’s plans for dealing w asylum,
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Interesting note (h/t @NickMiroff) on the finalized asylum agreement btw US & El Salvador. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/el-salvador-asylum-us-border/2020/12/15/2a1f682a-3f2a-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html These asylum a
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A classic and revealing gambit here by the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández. He tells the press that the US has "agreed" to extend TPS for Hondurans *after* he
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The DHS whistle-blower complaint provides even more evidence of how the dept has simply become a cesspool of Trumpism. There's one set of details concerning Central America that seems worth
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All through the 80s, the US gov denied asylum applications from Salvadorans & Guatemalans at exorbitantly high rates for political reasons: the US was supporting the regimes that were brutalizing
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