Biden Proposes Rule to Quickly Remove Certain Migrants During Initial Screening Process at the Border

The Biden administration proposed a rule that would allow asylum officers to consider and impose certain restrictions or “bars” to the initial asylum screening process at the border. Currently, these bars are considered later in the asylum process at a full hearing before an immigration judge.

Iowa's Texas Copycat Immigration Law Challenged in Court

Iowa is following in the footsteps of Texas with a new law that would allow state officials to arrest, detain, and remove noncitizens who have reentered the United States after being deported—even if the person returned with permission from the federal government or later gained lawful immigration status.

The Biden administration has resumed deportation flights to Haiti, after a pause beginning in January 2024. The administration had stopped removal flights to the country due to Haiti's unstable government and continued outbreaks of violence. 

Thursday marked the second removal flight to Haiti in the last month.  
 
Simultaneously, Haiti is one of the countries currently designated for Temporary Protected Status.  

For a country’s nationals to qualify for TPS, the country must be experiencing “problems that make it difficult or unsafe for their nationals to be deported there.” Haiti is currently designated for TPS until August 2024.  
 
Read more: Temporary Protected Status: An Overview

New research from the American Immigration Council shows that immigrants in Maine made up over 6.1% of the state’s healthcare workers from 2015 to 2019 despite accounting for only 3.7% of the population in 2019.  
 
The new report, The Growing Demand for Healthcare Workers in Maine, highlights the contributions that immigrants make in high-demand healthcare occupations that require a professional or occupational license.

Read more: The Growing Demand for Healthcare Workers in Maine 

Associated Press: Iowa law lets police arrest migrants. The federal government and civil rights groups are suing

USA Today: Civil rights groups sue to block Iowa's new 'illegal reentry' immigration law 

Charlotte Observer: Cities will suffer if GOP pushes deportation law through 

NPR: Biden considers allowing some Palestinians from Gaza to come to the U.S. as refugees 

Scripps News: Democrats push Biden to do more about border crisis 

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