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Jordi Amaral
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Founder and Author of the Americas Migration Brief. PhDing in Political Science at GWU. Former IDB, Hxagon, MPI, WOLA, UNHCR, and more. Views my own. www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · 3d
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇬🇹 extends humanitarian protection for displaced 🇲🇽
➡️ 🌎 institutional architecture of migration governance
➡️ How to make immigration popular in 🇺🇸
➡️ Full free movement officially begins in 🇧🇧🇧🇿🇩🇲🇻🇨
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Americas Migration Brief - October 6, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · 10d
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Lack of support for migrant regularization in 🇨🇱
➡️ Trump admin attempts to expand fast-track deportations in 🇺🇸
➡️ Climate change and migration in 🇬🇹
➡️ 🇭🇹 migrants take to the sea to 🇯🇲🇹🇨
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Americas Migration Brief - September 29, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · 17d
Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Quantifying economic benefits of 🇻🇪 migration in 🇪🇨
➡️ 🇨🇦🇲🇽 discuss expanding labor migration
➡️ 🇺🇸 to end TPS for 🇸🇾
➡️ Global Skills Partnership pilot to train 🇩🇴 for migration to 🇪🇸
➡️ 🇸🇻🇨🇷 labor migration pilot
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Americas Migration Brief - September 22, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · 24d
Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇺🇸 Supreme Court green lights racial profiling by immigration enforcement
➡️ Abuses by 🇩🇴 authorities in mass deportation campaign of 🇭🇹
➡️ 1.6 million job vacancies in 🇲🇽
➡️ State of remittances across 🌎
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Americas Migration Brief - September 15, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Sep 8
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇲🇽 looks to expand temporary labor migration for 🇬🇹
➡️ Military lawyers with no experience in immigration law to serve as immigration judges in 🇺🇸
➡️ 🇨🇷 returns planned funding cut for migration, refugees
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Americas Migration Brief - September 8, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Sep 1
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Reverse, southbound migration from 🇺🇸🇲🇽
➡️ Multipartisan consensus on enforcement in 🇨🇱
➡️ Key regional bodies' takes on climate change and migration, states' obligations
➡️ Budget cuts for migration in 🇨🇷
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Americas Migration Brief - September 1, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Aug 25
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇵🇪 selective regularization effort paired w/ increased enforcement
➡️ 30+ proposals for 🇨🇱 migration policy
➡️ 🇬🇹 grants humanitarian stay to 🇲🇽 displaced by violence
➡️ 🇧🇧 turns to migration to fill labor gaps
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Americas Migration Brief - August 25, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Aug 18
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇴 extends Primero la Niñez program to prevent child statelessness
➡️ 🇲🇽 displaced to 🇬🇹 by violence
➡️ 🇺🇸🇵🇾 "Safe Third Country Agreement"
➡️ 🇨🇺 migration across the Americas
➡️ 🇹🇹 migration policy in development
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Americas Migration Brief - August 18, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Aug 11
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Illegal mining, violence, and migration in 🇻🇪🇨🇴🇧🇷
➡️ Climate change and migration in 🇬🇹
➡️ 🇦🇼 looks to facilitate migrant regularization
➡️ Increasing 🇨🇺 migration to 🇳🇮
➡️ 🇨🇼 ruling limits immigration detention
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Americas Migration Brief - August 11, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Aug 4
Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Violent abuses by 🇺🇸 immigration enforcement
➡️ 🇩🇲 considers resettling 🇵🇸 refugees
➡️ Advocates critique proposed changes to 🇨🇦 temporary labor migration program
➡️ 🇻🇪 looks to repatriate migrants in 🇵🇪🇪🇨 via 🇧🇴
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Americas Migration Brief - August 4, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jul 28
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ New 🇵🇾🇪🇸 circular migration program
➡️ 🇩🇴 beefs up enforcement efforts, hires 400 new agents
➡️ 🇧🇿 considers “Safe Third Country” agreement proposed by 🇺🇸
➡️ 🇵🇪 rules out large-scale regularization program for 🇻🇪
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Americas Migration Brief - July 28, 2025
News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jul 21
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇻🇪 migrants, including asylum seekers, that were deported by 🇺🇸 to 🇸🇻 are now returned to 🇻🇪
➡️ 🇦🇷 deports first migrant under recent, controversial executive order
➡️ 🇬🇾 looks to facilitate labor immigration
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Americas Migration Brief - July 21, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jul 17
After 2.5 years, 130 weekly briefs, and 11 special editions, I'm turning on paid subs at the AMB. Everyone will still receive the full newsletter, regardless of subscription type. But to maintain the AMB as a public good, I need your support. Will you join me? www.migrationbrief.com/p/taking-sto...
Taking stock of the Americas Migration Brief
I'm turning on paid subscriptions. Will you join me in my mission of viewing migration as a regional, interconnected phenomenon that requires we expand our attention to the whole of the hemisphere?
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jul 14
Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇻🇪 integration in 🇨🇴🇵🇪🇧🇷🇨🇱
➡️ Landmark Advisory Opinion covers states' obligations for climate change-related displacement
➡️ 🇫🇷 joins 🇸🇻 labor migration program
➡️ 🇭🇹 and others in 🇺🇸 look to seek asylum in 🇨🇦
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Americas Migration Brief - July 14, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jun 23
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Few asylum applications are granted in 🇨🇱🇨🇷, but 🇬🇹 is improving its capacity
➡️ Persecution and forced displacement of civil society and journalists in 🇸🇻
➡️ 🇲🇽 records drop in detention of irregular migrants
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Americas Migration Brief - June 23, 2025
The AMB will be on hiatus until July 14th. I’m getting married!
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jun 16
Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 1.3 million internally displaced in 🇭🇹, including 1 in 6 of all children
➡️ Militarization, politicization of military in 🇺🇸
➡️ Promoting migrant financial inclusion in 🇬🇾
➡️ Asylum requests increasing in 🇧🇷🇭🇳
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Americas Migration Brief - June 16, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jun 9
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Protection issues for LGBTIQ+ migrants across 🌎
➡️ Xenophobia in 🇨🇱
➡️ UNHCR closing office in 🇹🇹 due to funding cuts
➡️ 🇺🇸 travel ban affects 19 countries, including 🇭🇹🇻🇪🇨🇺
➡️ 🇪🇨 increasingly migrating to 🇦🇷
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Americas Migration Brief - June 9, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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José G. Miranda @josegmiranda.bsky.social · Jun 2
And ☝🏾 discussion of how an IRAP and Las Americas report demonstrates how restrictive U.S. immigration policies worsen the displacement and climate crises by pushing vulnerable populations into perilous migration routes, where climate-exacerbated hazards pose dire risks to their safety and survival.
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jun 2
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Effects of proposed remittances tax by 🇺🇸
➡️ Survey of refugees and asylum seekers in 🇵🇦
➡️ Questions over the future of migration policy under new 🇹🇹 gov
➡️ ~70% of migrants stranded in 🇲🇽 looking to stay
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Americas Migration Brief - June 2, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Jun 2
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Effects of proposed remittances tax by 🇺🇸
➡️ Survey of refugees and asylum seekers in 🇵🇦
➡️ Questions over the future of migration policy under new 🇹🇹 gov
➡️ ~70% of migrants stranded in 🇲🇽 looking to stay
www.migrationbrief.com/p/americas-m...
Americas Migration Brief - June 2, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · May 26
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇯🇲 deports 🇭🇹 without opportunity to apply for asylum
➡️ Updates on migrants from across 🌏 deported by 🇺🇸 to 🇵🇦
➡️ 🇬🇹🇨🇷 labor migration agreement
➡️ Lack of access to regularization, special visitor V visa in 🇨🇴
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Americas Migration Brief - May 26, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · May 19
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇦🇷 Milei adopts anti-immigration rhetoric, policies
➡️ Increase in 🇨🇺 asylum seekers in 🇧🇷, enter through 🇬🇾
➡️ 🇺🇸🇲🇽 cooperation on migration, potential opportunities
➡️ 🇵🇦 closes Lajas Blancas shelter in Darién
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Americas Migration Brief - May 19, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · May 12
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇱 Senate approves renewal of “special protection measures,” army to continue at northern border
➡️ 🇨🇷 asylum system under strain, UNHCR facing cuts
➡️ Reintegration efforts in a 🇧🇷 city
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Americas Migration Brief - May 12, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
www.migrationbrief.com
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · May 5
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇴 public opinion about 🇻🇪 migration is nuanced
➡️ The details behind 🇺🇸🇸🇻 negotiations on deportations
➡️ 🇧🇷 resettles 🇦🇫 in pioneering effort
➡️ 🇸🇷 developing landmark national migration policy plan
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Americas Migration Brief - May 5, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Apr 28
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ 🇨🇷 grants temporary status to those deported by 🇺🇸
➡️ 🇬🇹 reintegration efforts
➡️ 🇧🇷 facilitates quick access to refugee status for women from countries with high prevalence of FGM
➡️ 🇺🇸 deports 🇮🇶 refugee to 🇷🇼
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Americas Migration Brief - April 28, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · Apr 21
Highlights from today's #AmericasMigrationBrief include:
➡️ Return migration south through 🌎
➡️ Updates on 🇺🇸🇸🇻 deportation/detention cooperation, rejecting rule of law
➡️ 🇵🇪 congressman calls for violence against migrants
➡️ Challenge of reintegration in 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇭🇳🇸🇻
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Americas Migration Brief - April 21, 2025
Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief!
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