All Posts in #Immigration
Asylum Grant Rates Increase Under Biden Administration
Under the new Biden administration, asylum seekers are seeing greater success rates in securing asylum. While the percent of immigrants who were denied asylum went up each year during the Trump administration to a high of 71 percent in FY…
What Is Causing the Rise in Immigrants Granted Asylum Under Biden Administration?
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor at Newhouse with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was featured in the Time Magazine piece, “The Rate of Successful Asylum Cases Shot Up This Year. But That’s Probably Not Due to Biden.” Kocher discussed…
What ‘Sensitive Locations’ Now Being Referred To As ‘Protected Areas’ Really Means
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor at Newhouse with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), wrote commentary for The Hill “Will ‘protected areas’ really be safe from immigration enforcement? Probably not.” In Kocher’s commentary, he discussed the lack of protection being…
Why Many Immigrants Are Aging Out of the DACA Program
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor at Newhouse with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was interviewed by NPR’s Morning Edition, “New rule shields DACA from being challenged in court.” Kocher explains this new rule saying, “So by putting the original…
The Current Unsustainable Position On Immigration
Elizabeth Cohen, associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School wrote a Washington Post commentary, “Avoiding past mistakes is key to Congress passing immigration reform that works.” Cohen, the author of this commentary, stated, “Policymakers have promised to regroup…
TRAC research featured in article, “The debate over immigration often relies on murky assumptions about the law.”
Research on by the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse was featured by The Washington Post article titled “ The debate over immigration often relies on murky assumptions about the law.” The article reference’s TRAC’s immigration related data, which shows that “six…
Migrant Protection Protocols Finally Come To An End
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor at Newhouse with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was interviewed by Mother Jones for the piece, “One Family’s Escape From Trump’s Border Hell: A 130-Week Diary.” He also provided expertise for the New York…
Biden Administration’s New Asylum Rules Provide Hope for Victims
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor at Newhouse with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was interviewed by Vice for the article “Victims of Gang Violence Hope Biden’s New Asylum Rules Provide Refuge,” as well as for the Los Angeles Times….
Trump-Era COVID Immigration Policies Continue to Affect Mexican Migrants
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor at Newhouse with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was quoted in stories for the Houston Chronicle, a KNKX story, as well as the Time Magazine story, “The Trump-Era ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy Is Winding…
Sharp Drop in Asylum Seekers Allowed Into Country Under MPP, TRAC’s Data Show
A new report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research center at Syracuse University, shows that the number of immigrants whose cases transferred out of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) dropped sharply in May. 4,476 MPP cases had been…