CFR mourns the passing of Martin S. Indyk, a CFR Distinguished Fellow and veteran diplomat who devoted his career to pursuing peace in the Middle East: on.cfr.org/4cXCT2i

BREAKING: US authorities have arrested ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel apnews.com/article/mexico…

🇻🇪 | URGENTE: La dictadura venezolana acaba de anunciar que suspende sus relaciones diplomáticas con Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Perú, Panamá, República Dominicana y Uruguay. Va a retirar a todo su personal diplomático y exige que estos países hagan lo mismo de Venezuela.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from granting legal status to undocumented immigrants married to American citizens. As Camilo Montoya-Galvez explains, it's possible the judge could extend the pause and that the program will "remain blocked" through

NEW: State Dep't data on the US Refugee Admissions Program show that 9,520 people were resettled in Aug, bringing the FY24 total to 84,271 with one month to go. It's taken time since the steep cuts of the previous admin, but these resettlement #'s are the highest in 3 decades.

#Panama has updated Darién Gap migration data through August, showing a sharp drop in the flow of people since June. Source: migracion.gob.pa/estadisticas/ Chart: borderoversight.org/2024/09/06/mig… Data table: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

BREAKING: Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru who was convicted for human rights abuses, dies at 86 apnews.com/article/fujimo…

Delighted to share my article looking at the past one hundred years of U.S. immigration policy was selected for the fall print edition of Foreign Policy! If you're interested in reading it, you can check out the entire edition here: foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine/.

I had a blast attending the 2024 Online News Association conference in Atlanta—my first one! ONA’s annual conference is all about connecting with industry leaders, understanding the latest trends in digital journalism/reporting, and ultimately boosting the value you bring to your team. 👩🏻‍💻

I am excited to announce my promotion to Senior Writer/Editor covering Latin America & immigration Council on Foreign Relations. My passion for these two beats has only grown stronger over the last three years and I am eager to continue covering them—and learning! ✍🏻👩🏻‍💻

NEWS: The Biden administration's is moving forward with plans to cement its sweeping asylum restrictions at the US-Mexico border, officials tell CBS News. The changes, planned for next week, would make it far less likely for the strict rules to be lifted. cbsnews.com/news/biden-asy…

New! The Biden Administration has formally extended its June asylum restrictions at the border, cementing a new "trigger" to life the suspension which will be even harder to meet. With crossings essentially flat, the rule will stay in place for a while. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-22602.pdf

It never ceases to disappoint me how much of the immigration debate is obsessed with how to prevent people from moving and so little attention on how to build a better world that doesn’t harm people and displace people at such a massive rate. Perspective matters.

Refugees play a critical role in U.S. society and to our economic growth. Today President Biden set the refugee admissions target at 125,000 for the next fiscal year. The United States will continue to be a global leader in providing safety and opportunity for the world’s most vulnerable.

The Biden administration border asylum restrictions get a strong rebuke from the UN Refugee Agency: "severely curtails access to protection for people fleeing conflict, persecution, and violence, putting many refugees and asylum seekers in grave danger." unhcr.org/us/news/press-…

Today, October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum will be inaugurated as Mexico’s first woman president. Previewing the sexenio, Carin Zissis explains the country Sheinbaum is inheriting and the major expectations for her first 100 days. Read the Q&A: ow.ly/mvhy50TAgHb

To recap: There are not 25 million undocumented migrants in the United States. DHS has not lost track of 320,000 children. Migrants do not bring fentanyl. TPS and CBP One (parole) are not "illegal."

Today is my first day of grad school in University of London’s MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies! Here’s to the next few years of learning more about international law, displacement, climate and gender in the refugee context, and much more. 📚

DHS announces that it will extend full Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for any Lebanese nationals here as of yesterday. In July, Biden extended Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) protections to Lebanese nationals. DED is less stable than TPS, so this is better.

Cuba plunged into the most prolonged blackout it has suffered in three decades on Friday. Energy officials managed to briefly get power back up to some parts of the island, but the state’s utility company reported another “total disconnection” on Saturday. nyti.ms/4eP2fAw