News Articles:

• Canadian court says Safe Third Country agreement with U.S. violates charter, 7/22/20: “In a judgment released Wednesday, Justice Ann Marie McDonald bashed the U.S. government’s treatment of asylum seekers and chided Canadian officials for their complicity through the so-called Safe Third Country Agreement.”
• COVID-19, the Administration Seeks to Bar Asylum-Seekers as a Danger to National Security, 7-19-20
• An American Mother on Asylum: Trump’s new rules would have re-written my story, 7/13/20: "When we were granted asylum, we were finally able to live in safety and peace."My heart sank earlier this month when I learned that other women and girls may not have the same access to safety that we did. The Trump administration wants to make major changes to the rules for asylum law. "If these rules were in effect when I sought asylum in 2011, I would not have been granted."
• Pregnant Migrant Sought Refuge, but Learned “There’s No Help Now”, in Juarez, 7/08/20
• Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump Administration’s Asylum Ban, 7/06/20: “The ruling is a legal setback for one of the government’s most important policies aimed at slowing immigration”
• The U.S. commitment to asylum-seekers is eroding away amid COVID-19, 7/05/20: “We see the effects of racist policy play out in the border community of Ciudad Juarez.”
• Supreme Court hands big win to Trump on expelling immigrants seeking asylum, 6/25/20: “The 7-2 ruling allows people to be deported without judicial review of their cases”
• Under Trump border rules, U.S. has granted refuge to just two people since late March, 5/13/20 (Includes a link to a Pro Publica article that reports on the CBP memo that was given to BP agents about how to carry out the apprehensions and expulsions.)​

Audio, Video:

• 1a program on NPR, on legality of Trump’s war on asylum
• The Infiltrators, film about Dreamers who go into detention on purpose
• The Out Crowd, Pulitzer-prize winning podcast by This American Life: Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy. We hear from asylum seekers waiting across the border in Mexico, in a makeshift refugee camp,  and from the officers who sent them there to wait in the first place.

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Detailed resources and advocacy alerts:

• Human Rights First: #SaveAsylum
• American Immigration Council (includes “Asylum in the United States” fact sheet)
• International Rescue Committee: “Is it legal to cross the US border to seek asylum?”
• #Faith4Asylum : Interfaith Immigration Coalition toolkits and religious resources