Daily Immigration News Clips – March 25, 2021

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on March 25, 2021.

National

Forbes Asylum Expert: Respecting Human Rights Also Controls The Border
By Stuart Anderson

Newsweek Activists, Who Fear Border Woes Will Undercut Their Agenda, Demand Meeting With Mayorkas
By Adrian Carrasquillo

NBC News Talking policy with Benjy: How this border debate is different from past ones
By Chuck Todd and Carrie Dan

Reuters Biden Tasks Harris With Curbing Central American Migration

Reuters U.S. Senate Republicans try to pressure Biden on border policy
By David Morgan

Washington Post Harris to lead immigration efforts as the administration grapples with an influx of asylum seekers

Wall Street Journal Men Looking for Work Drive Surge in Illegal Crossings at the U.S. Border
By Alicia A. Caldwell and Juan Montes

CNN Two big factors are making things worse at the border. But they're not getting much attention
By Priscilla Alvarez

CNN White House allows press into a border facility but not one spotlighted by congressmen for crowded conditions
By Jeremy Diamond, Kate Sullivan and Priscilla Alvarez

Politico Biden makes Harris the point person on immigration issues amid border surge
By Eugen Daniels

Boston Globe Once again, thousands of children have come to the border. So much for a new day on immigration
By Jazmine Ulloa

CBS News CBP releasing some migrant families without "notices to appear" in immigration court to save time

CNBC GOP strategist warns Republicans will use migrant border surge to ‘start political blame machine’ against Biden
By Emily DeCiccio

Slate Republicans’ Double Standard on Coronavirus and the Border
By WILLIAM SALETAN

The Hill Graham seeks to impose strict limitations on asylum system
By REBECCA BEITSCH

The Hill Blackburn introduces bill to require migrant DNA testing at border
By CELINE CASTRONUOVO

Politico Finally a breakthrough: Senate actually talking immigration
By SABRINA RODRIGUEZ, BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE

Roll Call Border showdown could preview spending battle
By Suzanne Monyak and Caroline Simon

Roll Call No ‘Dreamers’ allowed: DACA recipients still can’t work for Congress
By Jim Saksa

Axios House race shows Latino pushback over migrant increase
By Russell Contreras

Al Dia Latinos in Congress are pushing targeted immigration reform while Biden’s bill is tabled
By Ericka Conant

Washington Post Migrants in Mexico find new hope, more questions as border crisis looms

The Guardian Haiti deportations soar as Biden administration deploys Trump-era health order
By Julian Borger

Reuters Biden to tackle COVID, immigration in first White House news conference
By Jeff Mason

New York Times ‘Essential’ Migrant Farmworkers Risk Infection and Deportation
By Kassie Bracken, Yousur Al-Hlou and Caroline Kim

Wall Street Journal Biden’s First Press Conference Will Likely Focus on Border, Shootings
By Ken Thomas

Washington Post (Editorial) Cutting off media access to the border isn’t management. It’s more like censorship.
March 24, 2021

Washington Post (Opinion) Why Kamala Harris’s new immigration assignment could be a big deal
By Greg Sargent
March 24, 2021

Washington Post (Opinion) The border crisis is about human pain and desperation. Why can’t the media grasp this?
By Leon Krauze
March 24, 2021

New York Times (Op-ed) I Represent El Paso. What I’m Asking For Doesn’t Include Open Borders.
By Veronica Escobar
March 24, 2021

The Hill (Op-ed) Migration pawns: Unaccompanied children
By Joseph Chamie
March 24, 2021

Arizona Republic (Op-ed) Republicans are hurting themselves if they block legal status for 'Dreamers'
By Robert Robb
March 24, 2021

Local

Associated Press (Arizona) Arizona town calls state of emergency over migrant arrivals
By Anita Snow

Associated Press (Texas) Border crossings strain resources in Rio Grande Valley
By Adriana Gomez Licon and John Mone 

The Hill (Texas) Dallas emergency shelter sees spike in number of teen migrants
By John Bowden

The Hill (Arizona) Arizona town declares 'state of emergency' over border crisis
By Joseph Choi

CNN (Texas) Biden administration prepares to activate 2 military sites in Texas for migrant children
By Priscilla Alvarez