Biden Enroute to Institute a Transit Ban on Asylum and Expand the Use of Expedited Removal: USCRI Urges the Administration to Reverse Course

In a filing with the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, the Biden administration

Expanding Title 42, Again, Fails Even More Asylum Seekers

Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

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 Octobe

USCRI Policy Brief – New Asylum Rule: More Steps and Shorter Timelines

The new asylum rule has made significant changes to one of the two pathways to asylum in the United States. Most significantly, the new rule establishes a positive credible fear determination as the a

USCRI Calls for DHS Investigation of the Unlawful Detention of Unaccompanied Children in Hotels

Nelson Mandela wrote, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than how it treats its children.” The United States continues to lose its way in how we treat the unaccompa

Statement on the Conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center

Media reports on conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia paint a picture of neglect, mistreatment and abuse of migrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Statement on the COVID-19 Pandemic

ARLINGTON, VA – The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) expresses its solidarity with our global community in their efforts to respond to the COVID

USCRI Statement on the Decision to Further Restrict Immigration

Understanding Migration: Mixed Migration

In an earlier brief, we discussed the common pushpull model of migration. To recap, push factors and pull factors are approximations—part of a cognitive model of how migration operates—to describe

Understanding Migration: Why “Push Factors” and “Pull Factors” Do Not Explain Very Much

Five years ago, Michael Clemens and Justin Sandefur, in an interesting essay for Foreign Affairs, wrote that “in many crises, assistance in the original country of origin largely cannot deter depart