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Agenda47: Why Trump's immigration-reform proposals come with legal, feasibility concerns One of Republicans biggest talking points in the 2024 election is immigration. Donald Trump has proposed several policy ideas. Here is what to know.

🌎 Be aware of Texas’ new law that lets police arrest migrants who enter the US illegally!👋

What we know about Texas' new law that lets police arrest migrants who enter the US illegally Civil rights groups and a Texas border county filed a lawsuit that seeks to stop the measure from taking effect in March.

US/Haiti: Suspend Deportation Flights to Haiti
Serious Risk of Harm to People Forced to Return. 📍(Washington, DC)

US/Haiti: Suspend Deportation Flights to Haiti The United States government should suspend deportation flights to Haiti, 74 organizations including Human Rights Watch said on September 26, 2023, in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. The groups urged him to suspend all such flights, beginning with one currently schedul...

⏰Hope for Immigrants with the New Dignity Act 2023 ☺️ 🖲WOULD GRANT WORK AUTHORIZATION FOR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS but "Conditions Apply."

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Attempted crossings at the Southern border hit a 22-year high in March. Homeland security found more than 221,000 non-citizens trying to enter. However, the public health rule to limit Covid spread, called Title 42, which initially barred more than 123,000 immigrants from the U.S. during former President Trump’s term, will end in May. Governor Abbott of Texas will be ordering state inspections of vehicles at ports of entry, looking for smuggled people and drugs but slowing down commerce.

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Immigration showdown between Texas and the White House Attempted crossings at the Southern border hit a 22-year high in March. Homeland security found more than 221,000 non-citizens trying to enter. However, the public health rule to limit Covid spread, called Title 42, which initially barred more than 123,000 immigrants from the U.S. during former Pres...

We remember Martin Luther King, a man with a "Great Vision" for all in this World ~ I have a Dream! Follow your dreams 🌸
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🗽* Title 42* that prevents migrants to remain in the USA or cross its borders, will remain until February 2023 , when the full case can be heard by the Supreme Court ⚖️:
🌍..In September 2021, ↘️ the Biden administration launched the largest Title 42 air expulsion blitz to date, expelling thousands of deportees to Haiti after the sudden arrival of thousands of migrants from the Caribbean country in Del Rio, Texas.

The Biden and Trump administrations have argued that Title 42 supersedes U.S. asylum law, which allows migrants on U.S. soil to seek protection, regardless of their legal status. Hence, those processed under Title 42 are not allowed to file an application for asylum as a means to stop their expulsion.

Only an extremely limited number of migrants processed under Title 42 are screened for a lesser form of protection if they make "an affirmative, spontaneous and reasonably believable claim that they fear being tortured in the country they are being sent back to," as outlined in internal DHS guidance...'CONTINUED READING ON THE LINK BELOW'

What is Title 42, the COVID border policy used to expel migrants? Title 42 allows U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants and asylum-seekers on public health grounds.