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Immigration Book Round-Up, March 2024 Edition
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with 20 book recommendations below. Plus: find…
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15 Years of Data on Migrant Deaths in the El Paso Border Patrol Sector Now Available
No More Deaths (No Mas Muertes) just released 15 years of data on migrant deaths in the EL Paso Sector, adding to our understanding of the human…
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2024 Immigration Book Roundup: Reader contributions needed! 📚 (& enter to win a free book)
Every year I put together a list of the latest and greatest books about immigration drawn from my reading and your contributions. This is a great way…
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Thank Goodness It's (Five Immigration Things on a) Friday
Welcome back, friends. To celebrate the end of the week and the start of the weekend, I am sending you my personal list of Five Things You Might Have…
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ICE Consistently Detains About 40,000 Immigrants in Civil Detention
TRAC released the latest ICE data on immigrant detention yesterday, which showed that detention numbers continue to hover between 35,000 and 40,000. The…
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February 2024

Number of Refugees Resettled in U.S. Likely to Reach 30-Year High if Trends Continue
The Biden administration is on track to resettle an estimated 93,000 refugees this year, short of its 125,000 cap but higher than any year since 1995.
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Immigration Processes are Never 'Automatic'
Language is key to thinking and writing clearly about immigration. Improve your thinking and your writing today by removing this one deceptive word from…
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The Immigration Help Desk is Collecting Questions, Submit in the Comments
A new series of this newsletter will tackle some of the most common immigration questions out there. Submit which questions you believe need addressed…
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Four Upcoming Events: Please Join Me! 🎤
In the next month, I'll be at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon; Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; Red Emmas Bookstore in Baltimore…
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Art and Architecture of Ports of Entry Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Visual Journey
When we imagine the border only as a line on a map, we ignore the constantly changing infrastructure that creates borders as places of division and…
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Rethinking the Criminal Alien: Insights from "Welcome the Wretched" – A Book Review
"Welcome the Wretched", a new book by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, argues for a paradigm shift in popular thinking about 'criminal aliens.'
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Why Asylum Matters: The Story of Edafe Okporo
This new memoir by a Nigerian asylum seeker reminds us of what is at stake in Congress's attempts this week to shape the future of the asylum system.
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