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⚖️ Biden's border double trouble

President Biden's new immigration policies are facing litigation from both sides of the policy spectrum — the ACLU and Stephen Miller's America First Legal, Axios' Stef W. Kight writes.

  • Why it matters: On border policy, rapid political and legal blowback has become a given.

Biden announced a sweeping new program yesterday that would make getting green cards easier for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for years and are legally married to or the children of citizens.

  • Trump-allied America First Legal pledged legal action. Miller — a longtime Trump adviser, and the group's president — decried the move as "one of the largest executive amnesties in American history."
  • Immigrant rights groups and Democratic lawmakers cheered the move.

The other side: Exactly two weeks earlier, Biden sparked furious legal pushback from the left by announcing drastic asylum restrictions.

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The Biden administration on Tuesday announced an executive action allowing some undocumented spouses and children of US citizens to apply for lawful permanent residency without leaving the country. The president formally unveiled the action during a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. To be eligible for the program, the person must have lived in the US for at least 10 years and be legally married to a US citizen. The application process will open by the end of the summer. In contrast, former President Donald Trump has promised to deport more than 10 million people if he is elected to a second term. Biden says Trump's mass deportation policy would "rip spouses and children from their families, homes and communities and place them in detention camps."

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Trump proposes green cards for foreign grads of US colleges, departing from anti-immigrant rhetoric

MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted Thursday he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-green-cards-immigration-colleges-1366591ba263018305ee6eb924803d7f?

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Migrant apprehensions at the US-Mexico border have dropped by more than 40% since President Biden announced asylum restrictions three weeks ago, according to the Department of Homeland Security. There are now under 2,400 encounters per day, the department said. Senior administration officials say the measure will be lifted when the daily average drops to less than 1,500 encounters between ports of entry. Under the rules of the sweeping executive order, migrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally are barred from seeking asylum once a daily threshold is met. And unless they meet certain exceptions, they could be returned to Mexico or their country of origin.

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How Texas is still investigating migrant aid groups on the border after a judge’s scathing order

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas is widening investigations into aid organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border over claims that nonprofits are helping migrants illegally enter the country, taking some groups to court and making demands that a judge called harassment after the state tried shuttering an El Paso shelter.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-texas-shelters-investigations-paxton-1a1537b16742d5229fe906f5b73a8c2e?

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Immigration

 

Voters in eight states will soon decide whether to change their constitutions to explicitly ban voting by noncitizens. The move is part of a multipronged effort by Trump-aligned Republicans to raise the unlikely specter of undocumented immigrants casting ballots in November's elections. It is already illegal for people who aren't US citizens to vote in federal contests, and experts say it rarely happens, given that violators face imprisonment and deportation. Separately, a new Massachusetts policy went into effect Tuesday that bans migrants from sleeping at Boston's Logan International Airport. For months, state officials have warned they were overwhelmed by the number of migrant families arriving and sleeping overnight in the airport's terminals.

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Panama has placed barbed wire on several routes along the Darién Gap in a bid to block migrants making their way north. The treacherous 66-mile hike through a mountainous rainforest region connecting South and Central America has seen an increase in the number of migrants willing to risk their lives and safety to cross it. Panamanian figures show more than 170,000 migrants crossed the route from January to June 6 of this year. Some high-ranking officials in neighboring Colombia have criticized Panama's latest move. "The barbed wires in the jungle will only bring drowned people into the sea. Migration is stopped by removing economic blockades and improving the economy of the south," Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said.

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States pledged hundreds of troops and spent millions to help Texas at the border so far this year

More than a dozen Republican governors gathered in Eagle Pass, Texas, in February, heeding a call from Gov. Greg Abbott to confront what he labeled “President Joe Biden’s border crisis.” The governors, along with other GOP state leaders, vowed to send another round of National Guard troops from their states to the Texas-Mexico border.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/07/17/states-pledged-hundreds-of-troops-and-spent-millions-to-help-texas-at-the-border-so-far-this-year/?

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Largest housing provider for migrant children engaged in pervasive sexual abuse, US says

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Employees of the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. repeatedly sexually abused and harassed children in their care for at least eight years, the Justice Department said Thursday, alleging a shocking litany of offenses that took place as the company amassed billions of dollars in government contracts.

https://apnews.com/article/migrant-children-provider-lawsuit-0bfd45735aa6d41a4233abe6059f0e1f?

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Florida has the largest number of immigrants protected from deportation. Here’s why

MIAMI — Florida has the highest number of immigrants in the U.S. who are protected from deportation because of dangerous conditions in their home countries, according to federal data.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/07/20/florida-has-the-largest-number-of-immigrants-protected-from-deportation-heres-why/?

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📉 Americans sour on immigration
 
A line chart shows the percentage who said immigration levels in the U.S. should be increased, decreased or stay at the present level during irregularly conducted surveys from 2000 to 2024. The chart shows that the number who say immigration should decrease has risen to 55% in the June 2024 survey, a rise from 41% in June 2023. 25% said immigration should stay the same. 16% said it should be increased.
Data: Gallup. Chart: Axios Visuals

55% of U.S. adults want to see immigration levels reduced, Axios' Sareen Habeshian writes from a Gallup poll out this month.

  • Why it matters: It's the first time in nearly two decades that a majority of Americans have wanted less immigration.

🧮 By the numbers: The share of U.S. adults who said they would like to see less immigration jumped from 41% to 55% in a year. The attitude shift comes as border crossings broke new records late last year.

  • There's been a 15-point increase in the view among Republicans (to 88%), an 11-point increase among independents (to 50%) and a 10-point increase among Democrats (to 28%).

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Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive on immigration at her rally in Atlanta Tuesday, attempting to counter former President Donald Trump's attacks on the issue. She touted her role as a California attorney general who prosecuted transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers — then blamed Trump for "tanking" the bipartisan immigration deal that included some of the toughest border security measures in recent memory. Meanwhile, the Trump team recently released two campaign ads taking direct aim at Harris' immigration portfolio and falsely casting her as President Joe Biden's "border czar." Biden administration officials have repeatedly maintained that Harris focused on long-term fixes, while the Department of Homeland Security remained responsible for overseeing border security.

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MAGA’s immigrant enforcer
 
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Bernie Moreno gives a stump speech in Lorain County. Photo: Stef Kight/Axios

WILMINGTON, Ohio — Colombian-born Bernie Moreno came to the U.S. at age 5. Now the Ohio GOP Senate nominee wants legal immigrants like himself to learn English and be blocked from government benefits for their first 10 years in the U.S., Axios' Stef Kight reports.

  • Why it matters: The most expensive congressional race this fall stars an immigrant who could deliver a Senate GOP majority — while boosting party efforts to pass harsher immigration laws.

Moreno's opponent is Ohio's last statewide elected Democrat, Sen. Sherrod Brown, the powerful Banking chairman who retains a 5-point lead in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.

🔭 Zoom out: Taking their cues from Trump, Republicans have embraced increasingly strict stances on immigration and drug trafficking.

"We're not going to give you the citizenship test in any other language but English," Moreno, 57, told Axios in an exclusive interview.

  • Immigration was central to Moreno's pitch to voters at nearly every campaign stop the GOP candidate made as Axios shadowed him for two days of a week-long bus tour.

"They learn the language, like I did. They assimilate, like I did. They understand the culture, like I did," he told supporters at a local coffee shop in Wilmington, about 50 miles northwest of Cincinnati.

  • "And when they're ready, they raise their hand and swear allegiance to the United States of America, like I did when I was 18 years old."

Moreno wants to bar people from asylum — for life — if they illegally cross the U.S. border or do not first apply for protection in a country they traveled through.

  • Even if they follow those rules, he'd want to force migrants to wait outside the U.S. until their asylum cases are decided.

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How Abbott made the border a top priority
 
Animated illustration of the southwestern border of the United States represented as a moving dotted line.
 

Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios

 

Gov. Greg Abbott's strategy of busing migrants to Democratic-led cities has turned immigration into a top national issue, political strategists say.

Why it matters: Abbott is helping reshape migration policies across the U.S. ahead of the presidential election.

The big picture: From April 2022 through mid-June 2024, the governor sent nearly 120,000 migrants to six cities, costing Texas taxpayers more than $230 million, the New York Times reported.

Context: There were nearly 236,000 migrant encounters at the border when Abbott began busing migrants in April 2022, per U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

  • Encounters reached a high of nearly 302,000 in December and fell to about 104,000 in July, after Biden halted asylum processing at the U.S.-Mexico border.

What they're saying: "Texas alone shouldn't be bearing the full brunt of the Biden-Harris border crisis, and now that the migrant crisis is at their doorstep, sanctuary city leaders have completely changed their tune," Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris tells Axios.

The intrigue: Denver began sending immigrants to Republican-controlled Utah after Texas officials bused them to Denver.

Reality check: Cities like Chicago and Denver were likely to see some increase in migrants last year regardless of Abbott's actions. The number of border crossings spiked in 2023, and those cities are often destinations for immigrants.

  • The drop in the number of migrants at the border this year means Abbott has sent fewer buses, NBC reported.

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From Chinese to Italians and beyond, maligning a culture via its foods is a longtime American habit

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a practice that’s about as American as apple pie — accusing immigrant and minority communities of engaging in bizarre or disgusting behaviors when it comes to what and how they eat and drink, a kind of shorthand for saying they don’t belong.

https://apnews.com/article/haitians-food-pets-false-stereotypes-e857fcc1ca18c77d1c890ec5e41f4f65?

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Immigration

 

US officials on Monday touted another month of low border crossings, citing recent executive action curbing asylum access at the US southern border — even as former President Donald Trump levels campaign attacks over the Biden administration's handling of border security. "July and August saw the lowest encounter levels since September 2020," a White House spokesperson said. In August, the Border Patrol recorded about 58,000 encounters between ports of entry along the southern border, up slightly from July but far below the record numbers in recent months. Still, Trump and his running mate JD Vance continue to reiterate false claims about immigrants to fire up Trump's base. Their debunked claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio, have forced the closures of schools and hospitals in the city after officials received dozens of bomb threats this week.

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The politics of immigration play differently along the US-Mexico border

As immigration politics have moved to the forefront of this year’s presidential election, they’ve dominated contests across the country for congressional seats that could determine which party controls Congress. Read more.

Why this matters:

  • Three of 11 congressional district races along the southern U.S. border are hotly contested rematches in districts that flipped in 2022with the election of Democratic Rep. Gabe Vasquez in New Mexico and Republican Reps. Juan Ciscomani in Arizona and Monica De La Cruz in Texas.
     

  • Democrats in Congress are promoting border enforcement as seldom before, including a half-dozen bills from Vasquez. He touts his knowledge of the region as the U.S.-born son of immigrants with relatives on both sides of the border where border politics are literally matters of life and death. Federal and local authorities describe a new humanitarian crisis along New Mexico’s nearly 180-mile portion of the border, where migrant deaths from heat exposure have surged and merciless smuggling cartels inflict havoc.

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Campaign officials for Kamala Harris are weighing a potential visit by the vice president to the US-Mexico border while in Arizona on Friday as the campaign tries to close the gap with former President Donald Trump on the issue of immigration, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. Friday's visit to Arizona comes at a time when border crossings are the lowest they've been since 2020 — and follows new polling that shows Trump leading in the battleground state. US officials have touted back-to-back months of low border crossings, citing recent executive action curbing asylum access at the US southern border, even as Trump levels campaign attacks over the Biden administration's handling of border security.

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One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric

As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-texas-migrants-a378073ed4e565570b4d4aa20f3a9ff8?

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Biden administration doubles down on tough asylum restrictions at border

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it is making asylum restrictions at the southern border even tougher, as it’s increasingly eager to show voters uneasy over immigration that it is taking a hard stance on border security.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-asylum-migration-immigration-mexico-border-1241e365e68f8b6f7031c6ba4279bfac?

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