Joe Biden Can Save the Soul of our Nation with these Asylum Reforms 
published in The Hill on January 12, 2021

  Asylum advocates have called on Joe Biden to undo dozens of policies under the Trump administration attacking the asylum process of the United States. These include the nicknamed “death to asylum” rule that was scheduled to go into effect this week but was blocked by a federal judge. The rule would make it almost impossible to qualify for asylum, introducing new eligibility bars and further restricting an already difficult to satisfy and narrow refugee definition. Such measures reflect the Trump administration’s undemocratic break from even performative compliance with the rule of law, human rights, and our international legal obligations ...

​

Continuing reading on The Hill at this link

Central American Kids are Escaping Violence, Why Won’t the U.S. Protect Them?
published in the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration Blog on August 9, 2018

  The separation of Central American families at the border is the latest chapter in the long history of the United States’ refusal to protect those escaping the very conditions caused by its political and economic intervention in the region. Disregarding push factors fueling migration from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala–including gang victimization and homicide rates rivaling those of active war zones–the Trump administration discredits Central Americans’ asylum claims by: eliminating pathways for safe and legal migration; criminalizing unauthorized border crossings by reframing legitimate protections in U.S. law for asylum-seekers and unaccompanied children as so-called “loopholes” that allegedly incentivize migrants to cheat the system; and narrowing the interpretation of the refugee definition in the U.S. asylum process ...

​

Continuing reading on the USC CSII Blog at this link

Press

"Immigration experts say Tennessee officials are misguided in criticizing unaccompanied migrant children program." Interview in Yahoo! News (May 20 2021)

"Despite refugee boost and family reunification, Biden has ‘long road to go.’" Media tip sheet, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences Communications (May 4 2021)

"Seguirá la contención de migrantes centroamericanos en México" [Mexico will continue to contain Central American Migrants] Interview in Excelsior (March 2 2021) (Spanish)

"Solicitantes de asilo centroamericanos antes de Biden aún permanecerán en un “tercer país” [Central American asylum-seekers will remain in 'third country' under Biden] Interview in Excelsior (January 25 2021) (Spanish)

"Klarman Fellow Galli Investigates Child Migration." Interview in Cornell Chronicle (November 12 2020)