Years-long waits for a hearing in US immigration court affects not just those seeking protection but also enforcement outcomes & public confidence Our latest research outlines reforms that could improve efficiency across the system 🔗 bit.ly/immig-courts

45,000 North Carolina students absent Tuesday as immigration crackdown expands www.borderreport.com/immigration/...

What would it take to restore timely & fair decision-making in the U.S. immigration courts in an era of massive backlogs & underfunding? Our Nov. 24 webinar will explore practical reforms to improve court performance

More than seven weeks have passed since the last comprehensive release of detention and deportation numbers.

One early indicator of whether immigrants are leaving the U.S. (or entering) is K-12 school enrollment data. This great AP story tracks several districts & finds a mixed picture: New students still coming from abroad to many districts, but in lower numbers, & Palm Beach County losing 6,000 students.

The U.S. immigration courts are in crisis: 📍Nearly 4 million cases pending 📍Average wait to an asylum hearing is ~4 years Why does this matter? We outline in our new research + offer a transformation agenda https://bit.ly/4oz1OiB

Cooperation by migrant-origin countries on returns of their nationals is influenced by domestic & external factors New MPI Europe brief finds that reliance on remittances, domestic politics & visa access shape how origin countries engage 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/47qf3fz

Countries have different strategies to try to harness diaspora resources In Mexico's Tres por Uno, the government matches $3 for every $1 remitted for development projects Nigeria & others have raised millions through diaspora bonds See more: https://bit.ly/43fj581

DC Circuit probes Trump bid to block asylum with ‘invasion’ proclamation "The whole ballgame now is asylum,” an ACLU attorney argued Monday, warning the Trump admin’s wider mass deportation efforts have eroded other forms of removal protections. www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-p...

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With a steep decrease in migrant arrivals at the US-MX border, the Trump administration has directed its focus to enforcement in the US interior. In a NEW @migrationpolicy.bsky.social short read, I describe key data trends using the latest FY25 data. ⬇️ www.migrationpolicy.org/news/new-era...

"Maine offers an example of an important question facing policymakers nationwide how to manage broad policy challenges, such as housing and labor shortages, while simultaneously assisting communities in need of additional support immigrant and U.S. born alike" www.migrationpolicy.org/research/mai...

To give a sense of how many people this may affect, in September, USCIS had 911,946 applications for employment authorization documents that had been pending over 6 months. (People are instructed to file for renewals no more than 6 months in advance) www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

As of June 2025, US Border Patrol had ~24,000 full time positions That was before the One Big Beautiful Act passed with billions more for hiring www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

The updated profile gives insight into how Utahns without legal status “live in their community, what contributions they potentially make, what needs they have,” says @ruizags.bsky.social.

I spoke to @channel4news.bsky.social about increased funding for ICE and CBP and how its supercharging immigration enforcement in the US interior Based on what's already happened in LA, DC & Chicago, he asks what other cities can expect over the coming years www.tiktok.com/@c4news/vide...

Of the nearly 14 million immigrants in the US without a legal status, *4/5* have been here for 5+ years, according to new analysis from my colleagues More than 6 million kids--most of them US citizens--have at least 1 unauthorized immigrant parent www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unautho...

Happy to share that MPI has updated its online data tool that profiles the country's unauthorized immigrant population at the national, state, and local level to use 2023 American Community Survey data. Check it out here:

Migration Policy Institute: Trump Administration’s Expansion of Fast-Track Deportation Powers Is Transforming Immigration Enforcement immprof.com/migration-po...

The Florida Board of Immigration Enforcement launched an encounters online dashboard earlier this month According to the website, law enforcement had 5,074 encounters with people suspected of being in the country illegally from August 1 to October 9. Of those, 4,083 people were arrested...

This is big news for the tens of thousands of spouses of H-1Bs who have permission to work in the U.S. About 70,000 spouses of H-1Bs were approved for new or renewal work authorization documents last fiscal year.

🌎Nuestra Iniciativa para América Latina y el Caribe impulsa investigaciones basadas en evidencia y propone soluciones innovadoras para los desafíos migratorios en toda la región. Descubre lo que hemos estado haciendo aquí ➡️ https://bit.ly/4nyQgeC

Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include: ➡️ 🇧🇷 publishes national policy on migration ➡️ More than 1.3 million 🇭🇹 internally displaced, 1/2 are children ➡️ Estimated 316k internally displaced by violence in 🇪🇨 ➡️ 🇸🇻 looks to recruit migrant doctors www.migrationbrief.com/p/americas-m...

Unlawful crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2025 plummeted to the lowest annual level since the early 1970s, amid the Trump administration's sweeping clampdown on illegal immigration, internal federal statistics obtained by CBS News show. www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal...

There’s a new migration reality in Latin America and the Caribbean, as countries manage multiple types of movement all at once MPI’s @ruizags.bsky.social Diego Chaves-González, Andrew Selee & Valerie Lacarte spell out the transformations under way https://bit.ly/46NE1DX

América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan una nueva realidad migratoria, gestionando al mismo tiempo integración, migración secundaria, retornos y la amenaza de deportaciones masivas https://bit.ly/48Jjd2P

Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include: ➡️ Lack of support for migrant regularization in 🇨🇱 ➡️ Trump admin attempts to expand fast-track deportations in 🇺🇸 ➡️ Climate change and migration in 🇬🇹 ➡️ 🇭🇹 migrants take to the sea to 🇯🇲🇹🇨 www.migrationbrief.com/p/americas-m...

A little-known legal tool is becoming a central pillar of the Trump administration’s deportations agenda: Expedited removals Here’s what to know www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

Trying to keep up with the frenetic pace of US immigration policy developments & sort out the top trendlines & impacts? Join us on Oct. 9 as leading experts unpack the developments bit.ly/immconf2025

8 months on and there's still a declared immigrant "invasion" at the US-Mexico border Oral argument for immigrant advocates' challenge to Trump's presidential border proclamation is now scheduled at the DC Appellate Court for 11/3

DHS has just claimed that 1.6 million unauthorized immigrant "self deported" this year. This number seems to come from a Center for Immigration Studies estimate that relies on the Current Population Survey. As @jedkolko.bsky.social writes, such a large decline doesn't line up with other data

The Dept. of Homeland Security has a new statement out about deportations. They're saying they have deported ~400,000 people since Trump took office That puts them on pace to deport ~600,000 people in one year they say I suspect that includes people removed by both ICE and...

New research reveals the profound impact on mixed-status families—where at least one family member lacks legal immigration status. 🧵 Marrying a U.S. citizen does NOT automatically grant a green card. These families face deportation threats that fundamentally reshape how they live, parent, and cope.

⬇️August CBP Data Takeaways⬇️ Still at low levels, but migrant encounters at/btwn POEs increased from 8K in Jul to 10K in Aug. Btwn POEs there were 6K encounters, mostly of Mexican migrants. That's 204 daily BP encounters, higher than the 148 in Jul, but significantly lower than under Biden.

UNHCR official warns that the 1951 refugee convention is increasingly under threat “I am not exaggerating when I say that the institution of the asylum worldwide is under more threat now than it has ever been,” said Ruvendrini Menikdiwela at UNHCR in Geneva apnews.com/article/asyl...

US Border Patrol announced 500 Texas National Guard soldiers have arrived in El Paso in support of border security missions will be deputized under Title 8 to arrest persons who cross the border illegally www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

NEW: AP reports all 14 men have now been deported to their home countries by Ghana, in direct violation of international law. A court in the US determined each person would be persecuted or tortured in their home countries. We sent them to Ghana, which quickly deported them to their home countries.

Ghana becomes latest African nation to accept US deportees www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Over 40% of arrests in Trump’s DC law enforcement surge relate to immigration, AP analysis finds 940 out of 2,300 arrests, the greatest single category apnews.com/article/dc-i...

TPS terminations will affect Southern states the most. Nearly 1/3 of these TPS holders (404,000) live in Florida. Texas has the second-largest TPS population, home to 11% of TPS holders (147,000), followed by Georgia, with 4% (50,000).

Trump has stripped, or moved to strip, Temporary Protected Status from over: - 605,000 Venezuelans - 330,700 Haitians - 51,200 Hondurans, - 8,100 Afghans - 7,100 Nepalese - 4,900 Cameroonians - 2,900 Nicaraguans These figures don't even count the hundreds of thousands of parole terminations.

Nuestro webinar presentará hallazgos del nuevo libro de @stanfordpress.bsky.social “En movimiento: Realidades migratorias en rápida transformación en América Latina y el Caribe.” ➡️Regístrate al webinar del 8/9 y participa por una copia digital gratuita: bit.ly/LACmigracion

La mayoría de los migrantes de América Latina y el Caribe han permanecido en la región aunque la percepción es que vayan al EE. UU. Nuestro webinar el 8 de septiembre iluminará las dinamicas migratorias en la región. https://bit.ly/LACmigracion

Follow @iceflightmonitor for updates on what looks like may be an interesting flight.

Excited for today's release of our book "On the Move", which pairs migrants' stories with data & policy analyses to document the lasting influence on how & why migration happens across the Americas. Sign up below to join the release webinar on Sept 8 with my @migrationpolicy.bsky.social coauthors.

The Trump admin is expediting deportation cases for migrant families in immigration court Expanding a faster docket started under Biden admin & speeding up the timeline - judges now have 180 days to issue decisions, down from 300 From @britaineakin.bsky.social

📊 Out today: New US & state fact sheets examine the 7.1 million Dual Language Learners under age 5 in the US As DLLs often face greater barriers to accessing high-quality ECEC, data-driven resources can help close the gap www.migrationpolicy.org/research/data-profile-dual-language-learners

We DO NOT have firm evidence 1.6 million immigrants have left the US. This estimate come from the Current Population Survey, which has a small sample size & lots of uncertainty. & it could just be that immigrants are less willing to answer government surveys. More www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The Trump administration is weighing a refugee ceiling of 40,000 for next fiscal year (or as low as 12,000) with the great majority of slots reserved for Afrikaners, and remaining slots for Afghan allies and possibly Ukrainians.