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Founder and Author of the Americas Migration Brief. PhDing in Political Science at GWU. Former IDB, Hxagon, MPI, WOLA, UNHCR, and more. Views my own. www.migrationbrief.com
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Hurricane Melissa displaces thousands, hits 🇯🇲🇨🇺🇭🇹🇩🇴🇧🇸
➡️ 🇺🇸 ICE agents have shot several migrants and even US citizens
➡️ 🇹🇹 threatens deportations, sparks fears among 🇻🇪
➡️ Survey on 🇭🇳 returnees
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Public opinion on immigration across 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇪
➡️ 🇨🇱 presidential candidate proposes eliminating birthright citizenship
➡️ 🇪🇨 passes regressive reform to migration law
➡️ 🇧🇸🇵🇭 sign MoU on labor migration
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇷 political parties sign electoral ethics pledge to reject xenophobia
➡️ Transnational repression, including by 🇳🇮🇻🇪
➡️ Responsible recruitment of 🇬🇹 labor migrants
➡️ 🇧🇿🇺🇸 Safe Third Country Agreement www.migrationbrief.com/p/americas-m...
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
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇬🇹 extends humanitarian protection for displaced 🇲🇽
➡️ 🌎 institutional architecture of migration governance
➡️ How to make immigration popular in 🇺🇸
➡️ Full free movement officially begins in 🇧🇧🇧🇿🇩🇲🇻🇨
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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 🇯🇲🇹🇨
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Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Quantifying economic benefits of 🇻🇪 migration in 🇪🇨
➡️ 🇨🇦🇲🇽 discuss expanding labor migration
➡️ 🇺🇸 to end TPS for 🇸🇾
➡️ Global Skills Partnership pilot to train 🇩🇴 for migration to 🇪🇸
➡️ 🇸🇻🇨🇷 labor migration pilot
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Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇺🇸 Supreme Court green lights racial profiling by immigration enforcement
➡️ Abuses by 🇩🇴 authorities in mass deportation campaign of 🇭🇹
➡️ 1.6 million job vacancies in 🇲🇽
➡️ State of remittances across 🌎
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇲🇽 looks to expand temporary labor migration for 🇬🇹
➡️ Military lawyers with no experience in immigration law to serve as immigration judges in 🇺🇸
➡️ 🇨🇷 returns planned funding cut for migration, refugees
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Reverse, southbound migration from 🇺🇸🇲🇽
➡️ Multipartisan consensus on enforcement in 🇨🇱
➡️ Key regional bodies' takes on climate change and migration, states' obligations
➡️ Budget cuts for migration in 🇨🇷
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇵🇪 selective regularization effort paired w/ increased enforcement
➡️ 30+ proposals for 🇨🇱 migration policy
➡️ 🇬🇹 grants humanitarian stay to 🇲🇽 displaced by violence
➡️ 🇧🇧 turns to migration to fill labor gaps
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇴 extends Primero la Niñez program to prevent child statelessness
➡️ 🇲🇽 displaced to 🇬🇹 by violence
➡️ 🇺🇸🇵🇾 "Safe Third Country Agreement"
➡️ 🇨🇺 migration across the Americas
➡️ 🇹🇹 migration policy in development
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Illegal mining, violence, and migration in 🇻🇪🇨🇴🇧🇷
➡️ Climate change and migration in 🇬🇹
➡️ 🇦🇼 looks to facilitate migrant regularization
➡️ Increasing 🇨🇺 migration to 🇳🇮
➡️ 🇨🇼 ruling limits immigration detention
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Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Violent abuses by 🇺🇸 immigration enforcement
➡️ 🇩🇲 considers resettling 🇵🇸 refugees
➡️ Advocates critique proposed changes to 🇨🇦 temporary labor migration program
➡️ 🇻🇪 looks to repatriate migrants in 🇵🇪🇪🇨 via 🇧🇴
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ New 🇵🇾🇪🇸 circular migration program
➡️ 🇩🇴 beefs up enforcement efforts, hires 400 new agents
➡️ 🇧🇿 considers “Safe Third Country” agreement proposed by 🇺🇸
➡️ 🇵🇪 rules out large-scale regularization program for 🇻🇪
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇻🇪 migrants, including asylum seekers, that were deported by 🇺🇸 to 🇸🇻 are now returned to 🇻🇪
➡️ 🇦🇷 deports first migrant under recent, controversial executive order
➡️ 🇬🇾 looks to facilitate labor immigration
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Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇻🇪 integration in 🇨🇴🇵🇪🇧🇷🇨🇱
➡️ Landmark Advisory Opinion covers states' obligations for climate change-related displacement
➡️ 🇫🇷 joins 🇸🇻 labor migration program
➡️ 🇭🇹 and others in 🇺🇸 look to seek asylum in 🇨🇦
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Few asylum applications are granted in 🇨🇱🇨🇷, but 🇬🇹 is improving its capacity
➡️ Persecution and forced displacement of civil society and journalists in 🇸🇻
➡️ 🇲🇽 records drop in detention of irregular migrants
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Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 1.3 million internally displaced in 🇭🇹, including 1 in 6 of all children
➡️ Militarization, politicization of military in 🇺🇸
➡️ Promoting migrant financial inclusion in 🇬🇾
➡️ Asylum requests increasing in 🇧🇷🇭🇳
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Protection issues for LGBTIQ+ migrants across 🌎
➡️ Xenophobia in 🇨🇱
➡️ UNHCR closing office in 🇹🇹 due to funding cuts
➡️ 🇺🇸 travel ban affects 19 countries, including 🇭🇹🇻🇪🇨🇺
➡️ 🇪🇨 increasingly migrating to 🇦🇷
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And ☝🏾 discussion of how an IRAP and Las Americas report demonstrates how restrictive U.S. immigration policies worsen the displacement and climate crises by pushing vulnerable populations into perilous migration routes, where climate-exacerbated hazards pose dire risks to their safety and survival.
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Effects of proposed remittances tax by 🇺🇸
➡️ Survey of refugees and asylum seekers in 🇵🇦
➡️ Questions over the future of migration policy under new 🇹🇹 gov
➡️ ~70% of migrants stranded in 🇲🇽 looking to stay
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇯🇲 deports 🇭🇹 without opportunity to apply for asylum
➡️ Updates on migrants from across 🌏 deported by 🇺🇸 to 🇵🇦
➡️ 🇬🇹🇨🇷 labor migration agreement
➡️ Lack of access to regularization, special visitor V visa in 🇨🇴
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇦🇷 Milei adopts anti-immigration rhetoric, policies
➡️ Increase in 🇨🇺 asylum seekers in 🇧🇷, enter through 🇬🇾
➡️ 🇺🇸🇲🇽 cooperation on migration, potential opportunities
➡️ 🇵🇦 closes Lajas Blancas shelter in Darién
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇱 Senate approves renewal of “special protection measures,” army to continue at northern border
➡️ 🇨🇷 asylum system under strain, UNHCR facing cuts
➡️ Reintegration efforts in a 🇧🇷 city
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇴 public opinion about 🇻🇪 migration is nuanced
➡️ The details behind 🇺🇸🇸🇻 negotiations on deportations
➡️ 🇧🇷 resettles 🇦🇫 in pioneering effort
➡️ 🇸🇷 developing landmark national migration policy plan
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇷 grants temporary status to those deported by 🇺🇸
➡️ 🇬🇹 reintegration efforts
➡️ 🇧🇷 facilitates quick access to refugee status for women from countries with high prevalence of FGM
➡️ 🇺🇸 deports 🇮🇶 refugee to 🇷🇼
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Return migration south through 🌎
➡️ Updates on 🇺🇸🇸🇻 deportation/detention cooperation, rejecting rule of law
➡️ 🇵🇪 congressman calls for violence against migrants
➡️ Challenge of reintegration in 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇭🇳🇸🇻
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Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇧🇷 records net entries of 🇻🇪 while 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪 seeing more leave than arrive
➡️ How media across 🌎 discuss migration
➡️ 🇭🇹 find family reunification, controversy in 🇨🇱
➡️ Lots of 🇺🇸 updates
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