Border Policy
2021 PowerPoint Report
•Title 42
•Turnback Policy: Quotas and Waitlist (Metering)
•MPP / Remain in Mexico
•Travel Bans
•PACR / HARP
•CBP Accountability, Humanitarian Protection and Humane Treatment
•Wall / Border Enforcement and Biometrics Data Collection
•Federal Prosecutions
•Family Separation
Asylum Policy
•Refugee Admissions
•Humanitarian Parole
•Third-Country Transit Bar
•Programs Abroad: CAM and “Safe” Third Country Agreements
•Effective Case Processing
•Due Process in Court
•Attorney General Decisions, Regulatory Changes, and Litigation Limiting Asylum and Access to Justice
•Changing Asylum Definitions: gang violence, private actor persecutor, political opinion, persecution, government protection, material support duress exception
•Particular Social Group: Gender (Matter of A-B-) and Families (Matter of L-E-A-)
Detention Policy
•State of detention: bed space, COVID-19, privatization, standards, oversight
•Release: standard, discretion – transparency, consistency, and accountability, Interim Final Rule (parole), court jurisdiction
•Prosecutorial discretion
•Access to counsel
•Expedited Removal
Interior Enforcement
•ICE Enforcement
•Raids and Safe Spaces
•Cooperating with ICE: detainers, Secure Communities, 287(g) programs, citizen academies
•Sanctuary Jurisdictions
•Welcoming Immigrants
•State-Initiated Enforcement
Affirmative Benefits
•What to do about people in the U.S? DACA / DAPA / Dream Act, 3 and 10 year Bars, Citizenship Act and other legislative efforts
•Resolved issues: Citizenship and the Census, Health Care Ban, Public Charge
•Temporary Protective Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)
•Crime Survivors: U-Visas
•Work Permits
•Case Processing
•Welcoming Immigrants