Doris Meissner

It is certainly true that the numbers that have been reported in this group are larger than anything that we've seen before this from these countries concentrated in one group.

If 400,000 (deportations) is the most the system has been able to produce when it was really working with a hyper focus, then projecting that out to 11 million, you would have substantial costs.

These populations... require different kinds of responses, we have not established an asylum system that is in any way up to the level of the challenge that this change brought about.

Many, if not most, of these people are not likely to be eligible for asylum, even though they're fleeing very difficult conditions, we desperately need to have Congress address the immigration laws and make it possible for there to be other legal pathways to come to the US.

Rising repression under the Ortega regime, especially during the recent presidential election, has cemented the belief among many Nicaraguans that the country's political turmoil will not be resolved in the short term.

What we have now with Afghanistan is so much more complicated.

The refugee resettlement agency infrastructure in United States is absolutely starving for resources and for skilled staff, because it was allowed to wither on the vine during the last four years.

This is definitely red states saying we want the kind of restrictive policies that President Joe Biden is dismantling.