Migration source material for Tread Softly briefings

19/2/2021: Democrats have presented legislation for President Joe Biden's plan to create a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants, saying there is no justification for denying them a permanent home in the United States.

Source: The East African

Aid groups praise Colombia for Venezuelan migrant move

10/2/2021: Aid groups welcomed Colombia’s offer of temporary legal status for a decade to more than 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants. The UN estimates that around 5.4 million Venezuelans have fled President Nicolás Maduro’s increasingly authoritarian government since 2015.

Source: The New Humanitarian

Biden signs order to ramp up refugee admissions to 125,000

4/2/2021: President Biden has called for an expansion of the decades-old US refugee program, which was gutted by former President Trump, who frequently portrayed refugees as economic and security risks. Trump allocated a historically low 15,000 spots in 2020.

Source: CBS News

Refugee resettlement at a record low in 2020

25/1/2021: Despite an estimated 1.44 million refugees in urgent need of resettlement globally, only 22,770 were resettled through the UN Refugee Agency, last year. These are the lowest refugee resettlement numbers the agency has witnessed in almost two decades.

Source: The UN Refugee Agency

Biden swiftly begins sweeping away Trump's immigration barriers

20/1/2021: President Joe Biden has signed executive orders that immediately lift a travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and African countries, and also halt construction of the US-Mexico border wall.

Source: Reuters

The pandemic is no excuse to shut the door on refugee resettlement

25/1/2021: By and large, resettlement and other migration pathways have become increasingly limited during the pandemic. Wealthy nations around the globe can do more to help ease the burden.

Source: The New Humanitarian

UN voices concern over refugee treatment at EU borders

28/1/2021: Refugees are increasingly at risk of being forcibly pushed back from European borders, according to a UN report. The UN Refugee Agency has said that boat arrivals were being sent back out to the open sea and people who managed to reach the shore were pushed back into their vessels and forced to leave.

Source: DW

Growth of international migration has slowed by 27% due to COVID-19

15/1/2021: COVID-19 has disrupted all forms of human mobility through the closing of national borders and halting of travel worldwide. Preliminary estimates suggest that the pandemic may have slowed the growth in the stock of international migrants by around two million by mid-2020.

Source: UN DESA

$1.44 billion needed for 2021 Venezuela response

12/12/2020: Of the more than 5.4 million Venezuelans who have left their country, an estimated 4.6 million remain in Latin America and the Caribbean. UN agencies have launched a $1.44 billion appeal to meet the needs of Venezuelan refugees and migrants and host communities in 2021.

Source: Devex

Number of refugees safely resettled at record low

19/11/2020: The number of refugees resettled in safe countries will hit a record low in 2020, the UN Refugee Agency has warned. However, the UK has announced that its resettlement programme is resuming following a temporary pause as a result of the pandemic.

Source: The Guardian

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