Sitemap - 2020 - BORDER/LINES
Issue spotlight: prioritization and data sharing—12-18-20
Administration finalizes extreme asylum restriction—12-11-20
DHS nominee, the future of those turned away, and last minute restriction push—12-04-20
Federal judge stops administration from expelling unaccompanied children—11-20-20
Special Edition—New Biden immigration plan details and the all-important appointments—11-13-20
The last four years, and the next four—11-06-20
DHS goes campaigning for Trump, and prepares for post-election unrest—10-30-20
Week 54: Hundreds of separated children’s parents have not been reached
Week 53: CBP agents perform illegal immigration enforcement in Guatemala
Week 52: Incoming rollout of expanded expedited removal program
Week 51: Refugee admissions slashed in eleventh-hour decision
Week 50: Administration unveils new proposed rule targeting students, journalists
Week 49: Whistleblower and detainees allege medical mistreatment at Georgia detention facility
Week 48: Judges stop attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from apportionment count
Week 47: Administration plans to collect more biometric data in relation to immigration applications
Week 45: Administration considering yet another asylum bar in quest to end asylum altogether
Week 44: Public charge injunction narrowed to just three states, adding to confusion
Week 43: Emails show that ICE asked contractor not to test detainees
B/L Premium —What gives Homeland Security the ability to patrol protests?
Week 42: Administration denies new DACA applications in possible defiance of Supreme Court order
Week 40: ICE unveils new rules for international students
Week 39: Long weekend roundup of immigration goings-on
B/L Premium — Migration Policy Institute analyst Sarah Pierce on Trump's visa ban
Week 38: Special Edition—visa restrictions, expedited removal, asylum unreviewability
Week 37: Supreme Court halts administration attempt to end DACA
Week 36: Administration unveils new set of proposed regulations gutting asylum, other protections
Week 34: USCIS careens towards furloughs as Congress weighs emergency funding
Week 33: Administration tries to implement ‘binary choice’ family separation
B/L Premium — Looking at the HEROES Act
Week 32: Administration intends to enact border restrictions indefinitely, shutting down asylum
Week 31: First death in ICE detention as government resists releases
Week 29: Trump issues new immigration order, angering pro- and anti-immigrant groups
Week 28: U.S. exports pandemic via deportations
Week 27: ICE detention and infectious diseases
Week 26: Federal courts order releases of vulnerable detainees while asylum seekers are turned away
Week 25: Special edition — COVID-19 brings ICE’s discretionary powers to the forefront
ICE is using its deportation fleet to evacuate Americans stranded abroad
Week 22: Federal court twice permits injunction against MPP, twice stays the injunction
Week 21: The DOJ establishes a dedicated denaturalization office
B/L Premium — Interview with immigration attorney Linda Corchado
Week 20: Disappearance of child in custody exposes flawed system for minors
Week 19: Federal government and New York State in showdown over data-sharing
Week 18: Six countries added to the travel ban
How you can support BORDER/LINES + a Q&A with attorney Taylor Levy
Week 17: SCOTUS allows public charge to go into effect
Week 16: Birth tourism and medical travel targeted
Week 15: Special Edition — When the federal government crosses the boundaries of legality
Week 14: Reports of detained Iranian-American citizens and permanent residents