Migratory Notes #218 will be our final newsletter.
Make no mistake: We were determined to continue publishing Migratory Notes under the Biden administration, because we believe that even if the headlines don’t scream in the same way, immigration news is just as important.
Unfortunately, we were not able to secure sufficient financial support for the newsletter. (Some of you have already reached out about a crowdsourcing campaign; without complementing that with core operating support we did not feel it would be sustainable.)
While we are stopping to publish Migratory Notes, Elizabeth and I will seek out new ventures in the…
Asylum soars in Mexico; Harris & Trump to the border; Expulsions ease
We are incredibly moved by the outpouring of support we have received from across the United States, Mexico, and beyond since announcing that we are stopping publication of Migratory Notes. We have never before so deeply felt our impact. Readers who are journalists, geographers, priests, rabbis, lawyers, data specialists, academics, activists, government representatives, and more wrote about how Migratory Notes has shaped their work.
THANK YOU for sharing and being part of this community.
Join us one more time tonight for the Town Hall on Covering Haitian Migration, and stay for a toast at its conclusion.
-Daniela and Elizabeth
Ghosts of family separation, dismantling Trump policies, legislation heats up
Migratory Notes is hosting a Town Hall for Immigration Journalists on Covering Haitian Migration, presented with Internews
6.24.21/ 5:30 PT/ 7:30 CT/ 8:30 ET
Details and Registration Link Here
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Cindy Carcamo, a veteran L.A. Times immigration reporter, has interviewed scores of immigrant families separated by U.S. policies. But she had never publicly shared her own separation story. …
When: 6.24.21/ 5:30 PT/ 7:30 CT/ 8:30 ET
Featured Speakers & Participants:
- Ebony Bailey, Independent filmmaker , Mexico City / Life Between Borders: Black Migrants in Mexico
- Cristina Baussan, documentary photographer and writer, San Salvador / Port-au-Prince
- Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald
- Garry Pierre-Pierre, Haitian Times, New York
- Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, Ayibo Post Port-au-Prince/ New York
- Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times
In recent years, Haitians fleeing natural disasters, political instability and poverty have found new places to settle: Brazil, Chile, and increasingly Mexican border towns. While the United States recently extended Temporary Protective Status to 100,000 residents, that does not…
“Do not come” and a Dem divide on immigration; “Chinatown Pretty”; tasering an asylum seeking kid
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A sheriff’s deputy tasered the 16-year-old asylum seeker after shelter officials in Bexar County, Tx., called for backup. While extreme, the law enforcement response is not unique. In the last six years, shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement have released at least 84…
Heartland Immigration Boom; Maine’s Bantu farmers; Texas disaster?
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The lone Central American immigrant in Congress is wary of the Biden administration’s efforts to support the region, reports the Los Angeles Times. The fascinating portrait of California’s Norma Torres (D-Pomona) chronicles her story from fleeing Guatemala as a child to her current powerful and often provocative position on the subcommittee that decides how foreign aid flows. “We must stand…
Can Biden keep his refugee promise? ICE deportations lowest on record/ Border Patrol out of $$?
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Last fall, a green bean facility in Wisconsin was the site of one of the deadliest coronavirus outbreaks in the food processing industry, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Maria Perez found that officials at Seneca Foods, which owns the facility, “failed to take critical precautions to protect the employees.” Perez traces the path of the workers, many of whom stayed at…
Immigration lawyers under surveillance; Global pandemic refugees; ICE ordered to stop detention at two county jails
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Two years ago NBC reporters in San Diego uncovered records of the U.S. government tracking journalists, lawyers and activists thought to be connected to the 2018 caravan. “New documents prove the operation went further — and raise questions about how many others were targeted,” Dara Lind writes in a ProPublica investigation. U.S. …
Harris’ silence on border; shadowy new wave of caravan organizers; opaque network of shelters
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Since 2018, “shadowy figures who traffic in disinformation and exploit social media to take advantage of migrants” have organized more than a dozens caravans, advertising on WhatsApp and Facebook, reports Rest of World. Over six months, Jeff Ernst followed two migrant caravans. “No one ever asked the organizers to identify themselves,” Ernst writes. “Migrants, worried about kidnapping or extortion, advise their…
Mothers who melt ICE; Death at Tyson; Refugee cap ⬆
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At the beginning of the pandemic, the meatpacking industry successfully lobbied the government to be considered “critical infrastructure” and their employees “essential” — but their largely immigrant workforce has been treated as anything but, reports The New York Review of Books. In an intimate and searing feature, Alice Driver shares the story of immigrants workers at Tyson plants in Arkansas who…
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