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Trump limits refugee admissions to 7,500 per year and gives priority to white South Africans

The administration announced the programme for Afrikaners in February, saying that white South African farmers face discrimination and violence at home.

Euronews

The Latest: Trump administration limits refugee admissions to mostly white South Africans

The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans

The Independent UK

US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes, advocates say

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights reach record highs, the airlines running the trips have taken steps to make it more difficult to track the planes used to carry shackled people across the country and around the world

The Independent UK

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Tortured by the Taliban, Locked Up in the U.S.

The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope.

Capital & Main

Federal lawsuit against Patriot Front aims to condemn white supremacist group to ‘bankruptcy and irrelevancy’

A lawsuit from a Black musician who was attacked in Boston targets dozens of members, including its leader

The Independent UK

What comes next after Title 42?

The end of a Trump-era public health order brings new barriers for people seeking asylum in the US

The Independent UK

Deadly Matamoros kidnapping has sparked fear among Black migrants, aid workers say

DALLAS — The kidnapping of four Black Americans — and the killing of two of them — in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros has sparked fear among Black migrants and raised concerns among aid workers who say Black asylum-seekers have long been targeted by drug cartels.

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DHS accidentally informed Cuba that deportees had sought protection in US

The Department of Homeland Security inadvertently tipped off the Cuban government this month that some of the immigrants the agency sought to deport to the island nation had asked the U.S. for protection from persecution or torture, officials said Monday.

Los Angeles Times

Biden decision to block asylum access at ports of entry caused hundreds of migrants to die, report finds

Report says that migrants expelled because of Title 42 continue to be targeted for ‘horrific violence, kidnappings, torture, extortion, rape’

The Independent UK

Ice inadvertently posted personal information of 6,252 people in custody

Worry after agency spreadsheet was erroneously posted online ‘while performing routine updates’ and was up for about five hours

The Guardian - US

ICE accidentally released the identities of 6,252 immigrants who sought protection in US

Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally posted the names, birth dates, nationalities and locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to be fleeing torture and persecution to its website this week.

Los Angeles Times

What could asylum processing look like after border expulsions end?

SAN DIEGO — Days before he was scheduled to go to the San Ysidro Port of Entry with his family to request asylum, a 7-year-old boy died in Tijuana.

Tribune News Service

Mexico officials abused 47% of migrants awaiting US asylum, rights group says

Nearly half of asylum-seekers returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” program to await a U.S. immigration court hearing said they’d been abused by local officials, according to a Human Rights First report released Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Migrants still being blocked by ‘really dangerous’ Trump-era Covid policy

Public health experts say Title 42 is counterproductive, forcing people into unsafe and unsanitary conditions

The Guardian - US

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Supreme Court rules 'Remain in Mexico' can end. Now asylum seekers wait in Tijuana to see if it really will

TIJUANA, Mexico — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can end the "Remain in Mexico" program, but life does not appear likely to change much for asylum seekers waiting in Tijuana for their U.S. immigration court cases — at least for the near future.

Los Angeles Times

Some Afghan refugees now have a chance to avoid terrorism designation that blocked their path to US

Doctors, teachers, engineers and other Afghans who were forced to associate with the Taliban will now have a chance at asylum or visas after the Biden administration loosened a terrorism-related designation on Tuesday, according to government officials and documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

Al Jazeera

US detention of asylum seekers ‘inhumane and wasteful’: Report

Human Rights First says asylum seekers were jailed on average for 3.7 months after being allowed into the United States.

Al Jazeera

US officials attend migration summit while policies under fire

High-level meetings are being held in Panama as rights advocates say risks for migrants exacerbated by US border push.

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Al Jazeera

US rights groups welcome Title 42’s likely end, want more details

Rights advocates welcome reported plan to end US border restriction in May, but demand immediate end to expulsions.

Al Jazeera

Biden administration unveils new asylum rule on US-Mexico border

US says new rule will expedite asylum claim processing, but rights groups caution it may lead to quick deportations.

Reason

CDC To Stop Using COVID as Excuse To Expel Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

There are no public health gains from booting kids out of the country.

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