As we look forward to Universal Children’s Day on November 20, 2022, USCRI explores the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in this week’s policy brief. The UNCRC is the most widely adopted human rights pact in the world, signed and ratified by every country recognized by the U.N., except the […]
Category: Policy and Advocacy
The Expanded Use of Title 42 Places More Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Harm’s Way
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on October 12, 2022, that it will expel Venezuelans entering without authorization at the southern border to Mexico through the use of Title 42, an obscure provision of public health law that allows border officials to rapidly expel asylum seekers and migrants to Mexico or their home […]
Chapter 3: Protections for Unaccompanied Children in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA)
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) and The Children’s Village present chapter three of Where We Stand: A 20-Year Retrospective of the Unaccompanied Children’s Program in the United States. The retrospective will review the Unaccompanied Children’s Program from the passage of the Homeland Security Act (HSA) of 2002 until today. It assesses 20 […]
Policy Brief: Waiting for Work Authorization: Survivors of Human Trafficking
While human trafficking spans all demographics, certain factors can place individuals at a higher risk of labor trafficking. Some of these risk factors include recent migration/ relocation history, immigration status, employment in a marginalized or unregulated workforce, having been previously affected by abuse or violence, and poverty. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that 24.9 […]
What is the Afghan Adjustment Act?
The Afghan Adjustment Act (AAA), or “Triple A,” is a proposed piece of legislation introduced in both chambers of Congress. Its primary purpose is to provide a pathway to lawful permanent residency for tens of thousands of Afghans who have resettled in the United States since the country’s central government fell to the Taliban last […]
Policy Brief: U.S. Policy and COFA Citizens: Migration from Climate-Vulnerable Countries
This paper is part of USCRI’s ongoing policy and advocacy work highlighting strengths and weaknesses in existing U.S. and international policy toward migration from climate-affected countries and possible policies or models to pursue in response. Through a series of bilateral treaties called the Compacts of Free Association, citizens of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau […]
Lautenberg Program Fact Sheet
The Lautenberg Amendment allows citizens in former Soviet Union countries, including Ukraine, who are members of a religious minority group to join their family members living in the United States. These religious groups include Jews, Evangelical Christians, Ukrainian Catholics, and members of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and Greek Orthodox Church. The program created under […]
USCRI Statement on the Five Years of the Rohingya Crisis
Earlier this year, the U.S. Government formally determined that the Myanmar military régime committed genocide and crimes against humanity against ethnic Rohingya Muslims. This determination comes nearly five years after Myanmar’s military régime launched a total war that forced hundreds of thousands, including elderly, women, and children, of Muslim Rohingya from their homes and into […]
USCRI Policy Brief: TPD and TPS: The EU and the US Provide Immigration Protection
August 24 marks the six-month anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. Over 6.7 million Ukrainians have fled their country as refugees and another 6.6 million are internally displaced. The EU was fast-acting to protect refugees streaming out of Ukraine. Just over a week after the beginning of the invasion, the Council of the […]
Policy Brief – Improving U.S. Laws and Policies on Labor Trafficking
This week’s policy brief discusses labor trafficking in the context of the United States. Although human trafficking has entered the mainstream consciousness in the United States over the past 25 years, the true magnitude of this crime remains unknown both domestically and internationally. While federal agencies primarily focus on sex trafficking in investigations, some data […]
