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Katrina at 20: Long-Term Impacts on Immigrant Communities and Displacement
Twenty years after Katrina, New Orleans is about 100,000 people smaller and more demographically shifted. Immigrant workers powered reconstruction but…
What Mass Deportation Could Do to a Community in 2025 and Beyond
A July 1, 2025 bill allocates $170 billion to expand U.S. immigration enforcement, enabling 116,000 detention beds and faster deportations.…
International students plan to stay home amid protests, fear of crackdown
U.S. enforcement since January 2025 has produced at least 1,300 student visa revocations and arrests, chilling campus protest participation. Canada…
Rohingya Refugees in India: Captivity at Sea and Deportations Reach Crisis Point
Reports from May 2025 allege Indian authorities forcibly expelled Rohingya—including at-sea pushbacks from the Andaman Islands—and removed others to Bangladesh…
Florida official: Alligator Alcatraz to have no detainees in coming days
Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Alligator Alcatraz closed within 60 days for environmental violations and inhumane conditions; rapid transfers cut detainee…
Church World Service in U.S.–South Africa Visa Row Over Afrikaner Refugee Resettlement
Executive Order 14204 created an Afrikaner-focused refugee pathway managed by CWS; visa refusals for 30 Kenyan staff in South Africa…
Thailand Grants Myanmar Refugees Legal Work Rights to Ease Labor Shortage
Thailand’s July–August 2025 policy lets about 80,000 Myanmar refugees from nine camps apply for legal work, addressing labor shortages. The…
Diverse Edison Township at Epicenter of Trump’s 2025 Immigration Crackdown
ICE and CBP raided Edison’s Smart Logistics warehouse on August 20, 2025, detaining 29 workers and injuring at least three.…