
Essays exploring law, immigration, refugee protection, global displacement, and the human consequences of policy and institutions.
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This essay builds on The Refugee Bureau’s recent reporting on PRM’s role in third-country deportations and traces the longer history that brought us here.
Sept. 29 Update: Just hours after this essay went live, the Supreme Court has allowe...
Maria is a fictional composite drawn from real cases involving unaccompanied children seeking asylum; she does not represent any individual applicant.
Update, September 2026: I’ve now published a free practitioner guide designed to help a...
Afghanistan’s defense minister Mohammad Qasim Fahim, left—the commander Salaruddin Eqbal spent years protecting—enters the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in March 2003. Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Jud...
Afghan evacuees board a U.S. Air Force C-17 at Hamid Karzai International Airport, August 21, 2021. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Crul.
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”
— William Shakespe...
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Afghanistan: Administrative Divisions (2008).
As the senior DHS statistics official who resigned this week put it, there is a “war on immigrants” underway in this country.
This week, DHS stripped away one...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Former USCIS refugee & asylum officer (11 years), including training and supervisory roles. Attorney. Peace Corps Ukraine. Writing about the human consequences of U.S. immigration policyâfrom the inside.
Home of The Refugee Bureau, a history of the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM)
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