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☆ Biden Administration Weighs Reviving Trump Border Asylum Ban
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is thinking about using a Trump administration policy to significantly limit who can claim asylum after crossing the border illegally, according to people familiar with the situation. The plan is the most drastic of several under discussion as the Biden administration prepares to end Title 42. That pandemic-era policy, which allows border agents to turn away migrants at the border even if they ask for asylum, ends Dec. 21.
☆ Democrats’ Push to Help DACA ‘Dreamers’ Faces Steep Odds in Lame-Duck Session
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—With weeks left until they lose control of the House, Democrats are scrambling to see whether they can cobble together enough support to reach a deal allowing the young immigrants known as Dreamers to stay legally in the U.S. But their plans face skepticism from Republicans, who say it would be imprudent to change any aspect of the immigration system without first taming record illegal crossings at the southern border. Concerns over those crossings have been heightened by an imminent court-ordered end to Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that has limited access to the border for asylum seekers for the stated purpose of reducing the spread of Covid-19. Government officials warn there could be an even larger border surge when the policy is lifted later this month.
☆ Supreme Court Considers Challenge to Biden Policy Curbing Immigration Arrests
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jess Bravin | Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Supreme Court will hear a case that began when Texas and Louisiana sued to invalidate immigration-enforcement guidelines. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider the executive branch’s power to set priorities in enforcing immigration law, in a case that also tests the legal standing of states to bring their policy differences with Washington to court. Last year, Texas and Louisiana sued to invalidate enforcement guidelines, issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, that prioritize the deportation of those immigrants illegally in the country who pose an imminent threat to national security or public safety. That approach replaced Trump-era policies that sought to have immigration officers remove any noncitizen present illegally.
☆ Backers of Farmworker Visa Overhaul Make Year-End Push for Immigrant Labor Deal
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Kristina Peterson | Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
While there is no cap on the number of U.S. visas for seasonal agricultural work, farmworkers are only allowed to remain in the country for up to 10 months. WASHINGTON—Lawmakers, agriculture groups and farmworker organizations are pushing to pass an overhaul of the farmworker visa program through both chambers of Congress before the GOP takes control of the House next year. A bill providing a path to citizenship for about one million farmworkers—and creating a capped number of new year-round visas—passed the House in March 2021, with the support of 217 Democrats and 30 Republicans.
☆ Kevin McCarthy Calls on Alejandro Mayorkas to Resign or Face Possible Impeachment Over Border Policy
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Alejandro Mayorkas has run the Department of Homeland Security since the beginning of the Biden administration. WASHINGTON—House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign over his handling of the southern border or else face a possible impeachment inquiry. Mr. McCarthy, the California congressman who is the presumptive next Speaker of the House once Republicans take control of the chamber in January, made the remarks Tuesday alongside several other GOP lawmakers at a press conference in El Paso, Texas.
☆ U.S. Vows to Tackle Visa Delays as Frustrations Mount
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The State Department is trying to hire more consular staff and expects to fill all open posts by next fall, an official said. WASHINGTON—A top State Department official pledged Thursday that wait times for tourist, student and work visas would shorten significantly in the next year as the department ramps up processing to meet crushing demand for entry to the U.S. The State Department has been struggling to keep up with visas since 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic forced the closing of U.S. consulates around the world, bringing the application process for entry into the country temporarily to a halt. Two and a half years later, some consulates are still offering only emergency appointments.
☆ What Is Title 42? What to Know About the Pandemic-Era Border Rules
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Migrants expelled from the U.S. under Title 42 headed toward Mexico at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in early April. A federal judge has ruled that Title 42, the pandemic-era border policy allowing Border Patrol agents to quickly turn away migrants at the southern border, is unlawful, a ruling that will have significant ramifications on the government’s efforts to slow illegal border crossings. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan put the effect of his decision on hold for five weeks, after which the administration will need to end its use of the policy. That means, without further court action, Title 42 is set to end on Dec. 21.
☆ Judge Strikes Down Title 42, Used to Expel Asylum Seekers
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Michelle Hackman | Jan Wolfe | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—A federal judge in Washington struck down a pandemic-era policy known as Title 42 that the Biden administration has used to expel migrants crossing the border illegally, a ruling that will affect the government’s efforts to slow illegal border crossings. In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said that Title 42 was promulgated in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act, a federal law that dictates how agencies can issue regulations. Judge Sullivan said Title 42 “does not rationally serve its stated purpose in view of the alternatives,” and that the policy was therefore “arbitrary and capricious.”
☆ Chris Magnus Resigns as Customs and Border Protection Commissioner
  + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Customs and Border Protection Commission Chris Magnus is stepping down amid a rift with other Biden administration officials. WASHINGTON—The Biden administration’s top border official, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus , has resigned after days of internal pressure, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “The President thanks Mr. Magnus for his service at CBP and wishes him well,” she said in a statement.
☆ Biden Administration Pushes Border Agency Head to Resign
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Chris Magnus, commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, has said he won’t resign. WASHINGTON—The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is being forced out of his job, according to three officials familiar with the situation, in the first apparent shake-up of the Biden administration following the midterm elections. Chris Magnus, the agency’s commissioner since last December, was asked by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas earlier this week to resign his post or risk being fired, the people said.
☆ Paul Pelosi Released From Hospital After Hammer Attack
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Natalie Andrews | Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her husband was released from a San Francisco hospital Thursday, nearly a week after he was attacked by a man with a hammer who broke into their home, an assault that underscored the threat of political violence as the U.S. heads into the midterm elections. “Paul remains under doctors’ care as he continues to progress on a long recovery process and convalescence,” Mrs. Pelosi said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “He is now home surrounded by his family who request privacy,” she said.
☆ Suspect in Paul Pelosi Assault Lived in U.S. Illegally, Immigration Officials Say
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer is a Canadian citizen who has been living in the U.S. illegally since 2008, immigration officials said Thursday. David DePape, 42 years old, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and elder abuse in San Francisco Superior Court. He is being held without bail at the San Francisco County Jail.
☆ Afghan Evacuees in Limbo While Seeking Permanent Legal Status in the U.S.
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
GREENSBORO, N.C.—When Asrar boarded a plane with more than 400 other Afghans fleeing Kabul for America last year, the longtime intelligence officer said he felt something he hadn’t in a long time: safe. But more than a year later, the former Afghan colonel who spent two decades hunting Taliban fighters before arriving in North Carolina, says he has seen that sense of safety replaced by uncertainty and dread.
☆ U.S. to Issue Maximum Number of Visas Allowed for Seasonal Workers
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Santiago Nava—a guest migrant worker from Hidalgo, Mexico, on his first trip as a seasonal worker—cleans a container at a crab house in Fishing Creek, Md., in 2020. WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security for the first time intends to issue the maximum number of H-2B seasonal-worker visas allowed by law this year, a total of more than 130,000, the agency announced on Wednesday. Each year, 66,000 visas are set aside, split evenly between the winter and summer seasons, for seasonal employers such as landscapers, ski resorts, fisheries and vacation-town vendors. On top of that, the secretary of Homeland Security has the authority to issue up to nearly 65,000 additional H-2B visas for the year, though to date no secretary has done so, despite demand.
☆ Asylum-Seeking Venezuelan Migrants Who Cross Border Illegally to Be Returned to Mexico
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Migrants from Venezuela seeking asylum in the U.S. turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, last week. WASHINGTON—Venezuelan migrants who cross the U.S.’s southern border illegally to seek asylum will be expelled back to Mexico using a pandemic-era border tool known as Title 42, under a new migration agreement announced jointly by the U.S. and Mexico on Wednesday. At the same time, the Biden administration also is creating a new immigration program to allow up to 24,000 Venezuelans to move to the U.S. legally, to deter them from attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally, the announcement said.
☆ Biden Considers Creating Immigration Program for Venezuelans
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Biden administration is considering creating a new immigration program for Venezuelans that would allow them to enter the country legally provided they have a U.S.-based financial sponsor, according to a government official familiar with the deliberations, a move designed to discourage Venezuelans from crossing into the U.S. illegally. More than 150,000 Venezuelans have crossed the border illegally in the first 11 months of the government’s fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, compared with about 48,000 the entire year before, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
☆ Migrants From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua Drive Border Arrests
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—Migrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are driving the continued record pace of illegal migration at the southern border, with more than three times as many migrants from those countries arrested so far this year as at the same point in 2021, government data show. Border Patrol agents made about 181,000 arrests of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in August, putting the total this year just shy of two million with a month still to go in the government’s 2022 fiscal year. Migrants who want to ask for asylum at the border must be arrested by a Border Patrol agent to start the process. Separately, Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol, took 22,473 people into custody at legal border crossings. Combined, CBP has recorded nearly 2.2 million encounters along the southwest border since October.
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