by Sasha Abramsky | Feb 23, 2026 | 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, Asylum Seekers, Department of Homeland Security, Op-Ed, refugee cap, Refugees
Anahita Panahi has spent the last year trying to put out fires set by Trump 2.0. Panahi, who leads the refugee and asylee advocacy work at the California-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, has gotten used to public policies that are gratuitously cruel toward immigrants. She has spent months now navigating extreme interpretations of provisions in the federal code to make…
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by Jessica Corbett | Oct 31, 2025 | Afrikaners, Alex Padilla, Dick Durbin, Jamie Raskin, News, Pramila Jayapal, refugee cap, South Africa, Trump Administration
After months of reporting, President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday officially announced that it is restricting the number of refugees for this fiscal year to 7,500, with most spots going to white South Africans — a policy swiftly denounced by human rights advocates and Democrats in Congress. “This decision doesn’t just lower the refugee admissions ceiling. It lowers our moral…
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