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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 1d

Unlawful crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2025 plummeted to the lowest annual level since the early 1970s, amid the Trump administration's sweeping clampdown on illegal immigration, internal federal statistics obtained by CBS News show.

www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal...

Illegal crossings along U.S.-Mexico border plummet to lowest annual level since 1970

Unlawful crossings on the southern border have hit a 55-year low, according to figures obtained by CBS News — as President Trump cracks down on illegal immigration.

www.cbsnews.com

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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 6d

There’s a new migration reality in Latin America and the Caribbean, as countries manage multiple types of movement all at once

MPI’s @ruizags.bsky.social Diego Chaves-González, Andrew Selee & Valerie Lacarte spell out the transformations under way

https://bit.ly/46NE1DX

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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 5d

América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan una nueva realidad migratoria, gestionando al mismo tiempo integración, migración secundaria, retornos y la amenaza de deportaciones masivas

https://bit.ly/48Jjd2P

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Jordi Amaral @amaraljordi.bsky.social · 9d

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 🇯🇲🇹🇨
www.migrationbrief.com/p/americas-m...

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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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 13d

A little-known legal tool is becoming a central pillar of the Trump administration’s deportations agenda: Expedited removals

Here’s what to know

www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

The Trump administration has vigorously justified the expanded use of fast-track removal authority as a much-needed policy to reverse what it terms the migrant “invasion” that occurred under President Joe Biden. Immigration lawyers and others warn the procedure, which comes with limited due-process protections and inhibits immigrants’ quick access to legal counsel, exacerbates the odds that asylum seekers’ fears of persecution will be overlooked—and will also inevitably scoop up some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, with important costs to civil liberties and constitutional rights.

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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 14d

Trying to keep up with the frenetic pace of US immigration policy developments & sort out the top trendlines & impacts?
Join us on Oct. 9 as leading experts unpack the developments
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22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

This conference will feature thoughtful policy and legal analysis and discussion of some of the most important immigration issues that have surfaced in the U.S. policy debate.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 14d

8 months on and there's still a declared immigrant "invasion" at the US-Mexico border

Oral argument for immigrant advocates' challenge to Trump's presidential border proclamation is now scheduled at the DC Appellate Court for 11/3

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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · 15d

DHS has just claimed that 1.6 million unauthorized immigrant "self deported" this year. This number seems to come from a Center for Immigration Studies estimate that relies on the Current Population Survey. As @jedkolko.bsky.social writes, such a large decline doesn't line up with other data

That reported multi-million decline in US immigrants just doesn’t add up

The recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showing that there were 2.2 million fewer immigrants in the US in July 2025 than in January is almost certainly wrong.

www.piie.com

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 15d

The Dept. of Homeland Security has a new statement out about deportations. They're saying they have deported ~400,000 people since Trump took office

That puts them on pace to deport ~600,000 people in one year they say

I suspect that includes people removed by both ICE and...

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 16d

New research reveals the profound impact on mixed-status families—where at least one family member lacks legal immigration status. 🧵

Marrying a U.S. citizen does NOT automatically grant a green card. These families face deportation threats that fundamentally reshape how they live, parent, and cope.

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Ariel G Ruiz Soto @ruizags.bsky.social · 19d

About 60% of BP encounters were at the sectors of RGV, El Paso, and Tucson. Single adult encounters were higher in El Paso; unaccompanied children higher in RGV; and family units higher in Tucson.

Follow me and @migrationpolicy.bsky.social to keep up with these and other migration trends!

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Ariel G Ruiz Soto @ruizags.bsky.social · 19d

Because the vast majority of encounters are of Mexicans + Central Americans, who have broad repatriation agreements with US, about 96% of the 6K BP encounters were processed for removal, voluntary return or ICE detention.

Since May 2025, BP has not processed any migrants for release with NTAs.

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Ariel G Ruiz Soto @ruizags.bsky.social · 19d

Mexican single adults account for the small increase in encounters btwn Jul and Aug. No other nationality had more than 500 encounters.

Hondurans were the most likely to travel as family units and, notably, Salvadorans as unaccompanied children.

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Ariel G Ruiz Soto @ruizags.bsky.social · 19d

⬇️August CBP Data Takeaways⬇️

Still at low levels, but migrant encounters at/btwn POEs increased from 8K in Jul to 10K in Aug. Btwn POEs there were 6K encounters, mostly of Mexican migrants.

That's 204 daily BP encounters, higher than the 148 in Jul, but significantly lower than under Biden.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 19d

UNHCR official warns that the 1951 refugee convention is increasingly under threat

“I am not exaggerating when I say that the institution of the asylum worldwide is under more threat now than it has ever been,” said Ruvendrini Menikdiwela at UNHCR in Geneva

apnews.com/article/asyl...

UNHCR official warns that the 1951 refugee convention is increasingly under threat

The U.N. refugee agency says that governments around the world are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum-seekers even threatening its very existence.

apnews.com

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 22d

US Border Patrol announced 500 Texas National Guard soldiers have arrived in El Paso in support of border security missions

will be deputized under Title 8 to arrest persons who cross the border illegally

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

500 Texas National Guard troops arrive in El Paso to help US Border Patrol

The latest border security deployment sends 500 Texas National Guard troops to El Paso to assist U.S. Border Patrol.

www.elpasotimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23d

NEW: AP reports all 14 men have now been deported to their home countries by Ghana, in direct violation of international law. A court in the US determined each person would be persecuted or tortured in their home countries. We sent them to Ghana, which quickly deported them to their home countries.

World News
West Africans deported by US to Ghana have all been sent to their home countries. Picture: Ghana’s President John Mahama speaks to the media at the Jubilee House in Accra, Ghana, Sept. 10, 2025. (Ghana Presidency via AP, File)

By EDWARD ACQUAH and WILSON MCMAKIN
Updated 12:17 PM EDT, September 15, 2025

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Semafor @semafor.com · 26d

Ghana becomes latest African nation to accept US deportees

www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Ghana becomes latest African nation to accept US deportees

The West African country said it had accepted 14 migrants deported from the US as part of a bilateral agreement with Washington.

www.semafor.com

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 26d

Over 40% of arrests in Trump’s DC law enforcement surge relate to immigration, AP analysis finds

940 out of 2,300 arrests, the greatest single category

apnews.com/article/dc-i...

Over 40% of arrests in Trump's DC law enforcement surge relate to immigration, AP analysis finds

President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as a crime-fighting effort.

apnews.com

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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · Sep 5

TPS terminations will affect Southern states the most. Nearly 1/3 of these TPS holders (404,000) live in Florida. Texas has the second-largest TPS population, home to 11% of TPS holders (147,000), followed by Georgia, with 4% (50,000).

Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · Sep 5

For fellow immigration data nerds: The Congressional Research Service has updated it's invaluable report on Temporary Protected Status. Shows that 1.3 million(!) people had TPS as of the end of March 2025. Including 605,000 Venezuelans, 331,000 Haitians, 170,000 Salvadorans, and 101,000 Ukrainians.

www.congress.gov

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 5

Trump has stripped, or moved to strip, Temporary Protected Status from over:

- 605,000 Venezuelans
- 330,700 Haitians
- 51,200 Hondurans,
- 8,100 Afghans
- 7,100 Nepalese
- 4,900 Cameroonians
- 2,900 Nicaraguans

These figures don't even count the hundreds of thousands of parole terminations.

Table 1. Countries Designated for TPS, as of March 31, 2025

Country

Recent Decisions

Required Arrival Datea

Expiration
Dateb

Approved Individualsc

Afghanistan

Termination

September 20, 2023

July 14, 2025

8,105

Burma

Extension and redesignation

March 21, 2024

November 25, 2025

3,670

Cameroon

Termination

October 5, 2023

August 4, 2025

4,920

El Salvador

Extension

February 13, 2001

September 9, 2026

170,125

Ethiopia

Extension and redesignation

April 11, 2024

December 12, 2025

4,540

Haiti

Partial vacatur of extension, termination

June 3, 2024

February 3, 2026

330,735

Honduras

Termination

December 30, 1998

September 8, 2025

51,225

Lebanon

New designation

October 16, 2024

May 27, 2026

140

Nepal

Termination

June 24, 2015

August 5, 2025

7,160

Nicaragua

Termination

December 30, 1998

September 8, 2025

2,910

Somalia

Extension and redesignation

July 12, 2024

March 17, 2026

705

South Sudan

Extension

September 4, 2023

November 3, 2025

210

Sudan

Extension

August 16, 2023

October 19, 2026

1,790

Syria

Extension and redesignation

January 25, 2024

September 30, 2025

3,860

Ukraine

Extension

August 16, 2023

October 19, 2026

101,150

Venezuela (2021)

Extension

March 8, 2021

September 10, 2025

252,825

Venezuela (2023)

Termination

July 31, 2023

April 7, 2025 (or October 2, 2026)d

352,190

Yemen

Extension and redesignation

July 2, 2024

March 3, 2026

1,380

Total

1,297,635

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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · Sep 3

Nuestro webinar presentará hallazgos del nuevo libro de @stanfordpress.bsky.social “En movimiento: Realidades migratorias en rápida transformación en América Latina y el Caribe.”

➡️Regístrate al webinar del 8/9 y participa por una copia digital gratuita: bit.ly/LACmigracion

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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · Aug 28

La mayoría de los migrantes de América Latina y el Caribe han permanecido en la región aunque la percepción es que vayan al EE. UU.

Nuestro webinar el 8 de septiembre iluminará las dinamicas migratorias en la región.

https://bit.ly/LACmigracion

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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · Aug 26

Follow @iceflightmonitor for updates on what looks like may be an interesting flight.

ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · Aug 26

A likely U.S. deportation from Alexandria, LA, with a stop in Guantanamo is currently en route to Cairo, Egypt. This marks the 4th deportation flight to Egypt in 2025. Stay tuned to this thread for updates.

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Ariel G Ruiz Soto @ruizags.bsky.social · Aug 26

Excited for today's release of our book "On the Move", which pairs migrants' stories with data & policy analyses to document the lasting influence on how & why migration happens across the Americas.

Sign up below to join the release webinar on Sept 8 with my @migrationpolicy.bsky.social coauthors.

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