This Wednesday, July 30, please join CEDA, @Cristosal, @humanrights1st, @CGRS_Asylum, and @RefugeesIntl for this important webinar on the rise of authoritarianism in #ElSalvador.

Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – lost his wallet containing the physical card that confirmed his legal residency.

An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family.

A new UNHCR report reveals the toll of foreign aid cuts in the Americas, where 21.9 million people have been forced to flee. With a 42% funding drop at UNHCR, the consequences are dire.

Following the recent reorganization of the State Department, the Administration is moving at a steady clip to dismantle the little that is left of State Department-led refugee assistance.

This move further weakens the capacity of regional governments to provide legal pathways for refugees and migrants and undercuts much-needed assistance for host countries.

The rescissions package takes back $9 billion of previously approved government spending, with much of that money having been geared towards foreign aid. The package officially rescinds $800,000,000 from the Congressionally mandated Migration and Refugee Assistance account.

Congress passed the Trump Administration’s rescissions package, which serves as another nail in the coffin for U.S. leadership in refugee protection.

NEW: Representatives @RepEscobar @RepMariaSalazar, along with 18 other colleagues, introduced a bipartisan immigration reform bill called the #DignityAct of 2025. The text of the bill is here:

New ICE Memo: U.S. immigration officials may deport migrants to countries other than their home nations with as little as 6 hours' notice, a top Trump administration official said in a memo, offering a preview of how deportations could ramp up.

“Weakening U.S. human rights promotion and contracting the department’s humanitarian assistance offices is not reform, it is retreat,” said Francisca Vigaud-Walsh, director of advocacy and strategy at the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas.

CEDA strongly condemns the U.S. Department of State’s Reduction in Force (RIF), which decimates two of the Department’s most critical bureaus: the Bureaus of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

New from CEDA: One year after our 2024 brief, Nicholas Aimé examines recent developments in Costa Rica’s asylum system, including funding constraints, policy shifts, and ongoing reform efforts.

RT @CIPolicy: Senior Fellow Maria Jose Espinosa shares insights on Trump's migration policy and canceled humanitarian parole, impacting mor….

RT @camiloreports: Nationals of China, Jamaica, Liberia and the United Kingdom — among others — are now being held in immigration detention….

RT @camiloreports: NEWS — The Trump administration has transferred immigration detainees from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean to Gua….

In a notification sent to Congress over the weekend, ICE revealed that a 75-year-old Cuban national named Isidro Perez died while in ICE custody on June 26. Perez was first paroled into the United States in 1966.

The US Is Quietly Rewiring Humanitarian Aid into Deportation Support:

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The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland.