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We spoke with an immigration law scholar who explains 4 key points about how Biden’s new executive order will influence #immigration trends.

1. The executive order is basically an asylum ban
2. This could lead to a rise in undocumented minors crossing the border solo, since the order doesn’t apply to them
3. Biden is taking a page out of Trump’s playbook
4. The executive order won’t be so easy to implement
Read more:
https://theconversation.com/bidens-immigration-order-wont-fix-problems-quickly-4-things-to-know-about-whats-changing-231694
#Election2024 #News #immigration


It’s not just poverty that is making so many young Hondurans – ages 16 to 29 – migrate north to the U.S.

Some people might think that if someone is comfortable financially or established with resources in their home country, they’d be less likely to leave. In this case, there’s a direct correlation between Hondurans with social and economic resources and a desire to migrate
https://theconversation.com/young-hondurans-desire-to-migrate-is-influenced-by-factors-beyond-poverty-and-violence-227843
#immigration #news


Trump keeps promising he would enact the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, exceeding 'Operation Wetback' in the 50s, which deported hundreds of thousands of Mexicans.

It's a disturbing and misleading proposal, says a migration scholar:
https://theconversation.com/trump-promises-to-deport-all-undocumented-immigrants-resurrecting-a-1950s-strategy-but-it-didnt-work-then-and-is-less-likely-to-do-so-now-226943

#Immigration #USPolitics #News


Immigrants are not stealing jobs, or mooching off of the government.

Immigrants tend to work in fields with the most unmet demand for workers, and are more likely to have jobs than US-born Americans

https://theconversation.com/immigrants-do-work-that-might-not-otherwise-get-done-bolstering-the-us-economy-222580
#immigration #USpolitics #economics


Biden administration is planning to announce a new regulation as early as Thursday that is designed to allow #immigration officials to deport migrants who are ineligible for U.S. asylum earlier in the process, three sources familiar with the internal plans told CBS News.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-us-asylum-migrants-new-regulation/