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Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Ms. Fauzia Din, a U.S Citizen, was not entitled to know specifically why her Afghan husband was denied a visa, and that this did not violate her fundamental right to marry. Ms. Din’s husband, Kanishka Berashk, worked as a civil servant in Kabul while the country was…

Could the Obama Administration do more with Immigration Reform?

June 23, 2015

DACA, DAPA, Immigration Reform, Obama

When President Obama announced his executive order for immigration reform last November, he angered many members of the Republican Party who then brought the issue into a Texas courtroom. Judge Hanen was hand-picked by 26 Republican-nominated states to put the brakes on DAPA – and he did just that with a temporary injunction that was…

The Prince and the Pauper: Migration’s Unequal Footing

June 18, 2015

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Photo courtesy of Flickr user Serge Melki These days, media reports cover a gamut of issues related to inequality in the U.S. This includes America’s growing disparities in income, wages, wealth, and opportunity. The expanding gap between the one percenters and the rest of us is bad for our society, our economy, and our morality,…

Temporary U.S. Protection Leaves Syrian Refugees in Limbo

June 9, 2015

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GPM is in The Guardian! Read our opinion piece here! Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Can the devastating consequences of an international refugee crisis help revitalize the bruised economies of American cities? It could, but it won’t, not while the United States remains overburdened with a miles-long asylum backlog and an insufficient temporary relief system. Four…

A Political Power Play: Are Immigrants Being Taken for a Ride?

June 8, 2015

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DACA, DAPA, executive order, Immigration Reform, Obama

Last November, President Obama began a political firestorm when he announced a new executive order for immigration reform. In many ways this was a follow-up to the two-year-old program known as DACA, which covered young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and grew up in this country. The one unveiled in…

Migrants or Refugees: What’s in a Name, Anyways?

June 3, 2015

asylum, Europe, Global Migration, Migrant Crisis, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya

The migration crises in Europe and Southeast Asia has taken far too many lives and continues to create political and social obstacles for the international community to solve. Is violent conflict and political strife the root of the dilemma forcing people to flee their home countries? Or does the problem lie in the way we…

Checks, Balances, and the Politics of the Judiciary

June 1, 2015

Fifth Circuit, Immigration, Immigration Reform, Obama, Supreme Court

President Obama and VP Biden with Supreme Court Justices. Photo courtesy of flickr user Pete Souza. The American judiciary has historically enjoyed a level of trust from the public not extended to Congress or the White House. This is due to the nature of its function. Meant to act as an overseer and interpreter of…

Immigration Reform: What’s Next?

May 29, 2015

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DACA, DAPA, Immigration, Obama

This has not been a good week for supporters of immigration reform. On Tuesday, May 26, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stay an earlier injunction from U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen. Hanen’s ruling last February stated that Texas and 25 other states have the right to sue…

The Human Cost of “Not in My Backyard”: Who is Responsible for the Migrants at Sea?

May 22, 2015