Thread by @MigrationCollab

MiSC's Laura Briggs (@LjbriggsLaura), Maria Cristina Garcia (@ithacamcg), Yael Schacher (@YaelSchacher), Lynn Stephen, and Elliott Young (@elliottyoungpdx) comment on the Feb2 Executive Order on regional #migration and #asylum in this annotated guide
bit.ly/36XiM4B

Now, there's a lot to unpack here, and as the MiSC members have illustrated through their annotations, you really do have to "read between the lines." For example......(thread)

@YaelSchacher (@RefugeesIntl) flagged that the Trump admin refused to distinguish between those fleeing gangs and those in gangs. Key issues to watch for the Biden admin is whether the work of ICE Investigations and information sharing with Central American Govt.s truly changes.

Yael also notes that the cancellation of the awful “Prompt Asylum Case Review Program” is a very big deal. “A federal court in DC upheld the legality of these programs, which are essentially expedited removal on steroids. The Biden administration is, despite that, canceling them"

@LjbriggsLaura cautions us against complacency: "Is this a return to the 1980s and '90s, where the US would announce "progress" on human rights goals at the same time that its own policies were undermining them? We can't just pretend the past four years didn't happen.."

Lynn Stephen responds to the EO: "What if we allowed groups of people to apply together, as a group—as families, or a group of families from one community? This would allow people to settle in the U.S. with a wider support system and decrease isolation.#Immigration

@ithacamcg reminds us: "migration from Central America has always been multicausal. Until fairly recently, the environmental drivers of Central American migration were obscured in the policy reports and scholarship on Central American migration."How we frame this convo matters

Interested in reading more? Download the full MiSC Annotated Executive Order on Regional Migration and Asylum here: bit.ly/36XiM4B

#ImmigrationTwitter #twitterstorians #asylum #sanctuary #migration #education

@ZinnEdProject perhaps a resource for educators, as well?