Republicans blocked a move to bring up a $10 billion Covid response package after Democrats refused to consider amendments, including one to keep in place pandemic-era immigration curbs.
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ICE Lawyers Directed to Clear Low-Priority Immigration Cases
The effort could significantly reduce a backlog of asylum and deportation cases as the Biden administration anticipates a huge surge of migrants crossing the border.
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The Sunday Read: ‘They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them.’
The legal ordeal of two aid workers shows that anti-migrant attitudes in Greece and across Europe have hardened to the point that such helpers have become political. targets.
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Putin Knows What He’s Doing With Ukraine’s Refugees. This Is the World’s Big Test.
The response to Ukrainian refugees is a test of European solidarity.
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C.D.C. Confirms It Will Lift Public Health Order Restricting Immigration
The agency cited “current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight Covid-19” as grounds for returning in late May to prepandemic policies for admitting migrants.