The likely revival and expansion of the CAM and PTA programs

The Biden administration is likely to reinstate and expand the Central American Minors and Refugee/Parole program and Protection Transfer Arrangement.

Many eligibility conditions could be lifted for CAM applicants and PTA resettlement spots could be expanded and funding increased.

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Guatemalan police appear to have – for the time being – halted the U.S.-bound migrant caravan. As of Sunday evening, at least 6,000 migrants remained trapped before a multi-layered cordon of Guatemalan security forces in the state of Chiquimula town of Vado Hondo.

This occurs amid reports that newly seated President Joe Biden will propose to congress a general amnesty that would legalize essentially all illegal aliens in the U.S.

The man tapped to become DHS secretary, Cuba-born Alejandro "Ali" Mayorkas, would wear many hats running one of the country's largest bureaucracies.

But despite largely laudatory media reviews of a Mayorkas appointment, his public service legacy features serial ethical imbroglios, a pointed de-emphasis on immigration fraud and law enforcement, and strong-arm management tactics to spike acceptances of immigration and asylum applications in disregard of eligibility.

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‘Trump Effect’ likely explains slowdown

Recently released Census data shows the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) grew more slowly from 2017 to 2019 than in prior years.

In the first two years of the Trump administration, growth in the immigrant population averaged only about 200,000 a year, in contrast to 650,000 a year from 2010 to 2017.