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July 13, 2022 |
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Immigrants and Asylum-Seekers Deserve Humane Alternatives To Detention
By Trinh Q. Truong
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As the Biden administration has worked to reform an immigration system impeded by Trump-era policies that criminalized undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers and expanded immigration detention, the ATD program has rapidly grown. In fact, as of June 2022, a record number of almost 280,000 undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers have been enrolled in ATD, and the Biden administration plans to double this number by the end of 2023.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2022
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