Hear from CEDA’s Executive Director, María Jose Espinosa, and our Director of Strategy & Advocacy, Francisca Vigaud-Walsh, as they discuss evolving migration patterns, regional responses, and what’s at stake for human rights & global mobility. RSVP now ⬇️
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. www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...
“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. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
CEDA strongly condemns the July 11 Reduction in Force in the U.S. Department of State.
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Senior Fellow Maria Jose Espinosa shares insights on Trump's migration policy and canceled humanitarian parole, impacting more than half a million Cuban migrants.
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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. www.weareceda.org/ceda-publica...
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. www.bbc.com/news/article...
El Gobierno de Donald Trump está cerrando los caminos legales para migrar a Estados Unidos. ¿Qué se viene para las comunidades latinas?
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@weareceda.bsky.social entrevistó a Rachel Pereda, una periodista cubana que llegó a Estados Unidos luego de recorrer Centroamérica con sus hijos pequeños. Su caso ilustra el costo personal de la política migratoria actual. www.weareceda.org/interview-se...
New episode from @elhilopodcast.bsky.social, with CEDA's support: Del “privilegio” a la deportación: el nuevo limbo de los migrantes cubanos: elhilo.audio/podcast/paro...
New CEDA Commentary: The State Department is transforming its Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), an office historically tasked with protecting the rights and safety of displaced people, into a backdoor support system for DHS. www.weareceda.org/ceda-publica...
NEWS: The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up sending undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay starting this week, with at least 9,000 people being vetted for transfer, according to documents obtained by POLITICO. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Rather, [travel bans] have isolated the United States and weakened its position in the world.” In addition to arguing the measure “arbitrary and profoundly cruel,” the CEDA director goes further, insisting that it is also legally confusing and “promotes chaos.”
According to María José Espinosa, recent history shows that travel bans, such as those implemented under the Trump administration, “have not proven to be effective tools in preventing real threats of terrorism."
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CEDA's Executive Director, María José Espinosa, comments in the @The_Dialogue on whether the announced $1 billion in Russian investment in Cuba will materialize: thedialogue.org/latin-americ...
CEDA strongly condemns the Trump administration’s June 4 proclamation suspending or restricting entry into the United States for nationals of 19 countries. “The proclamation is rife with contradictions,” said María José Espinosa, CEDA’s Executive Director.
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The new tariff increase by ETECSA, the state-owned company that holds the monopoly on communications in Cuba, has increased connectivity costs so much that some Cubans would have to work more than a month just to check Facebook, send WhatsApp messages, or search Google. elpais.com/america/2025...
Among the more alarming changes is the proposed creation of an “Office of Remigration.” The term “remigration” is employed by far-right European movements as a euphemism for the mass deportation of migrants and their descendants. Its introduction into U.S. policy documents is profoundly disturbing.
CEDA condemns the State Department’s proposed reorganization of PRM, which would shift its focus from humanitarian protection to migrant removals. The plan introduces troubling language and threatens U.S. global humanitarian leadership. www.weareceda.org/the-latest/p...
NEWS: Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to end the #CHNV Parole Program, exposing half a million migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti--who entered the country regularly--to possible deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
In December 2024, CEDA published a report on violence, migration and displacement in Ecuador: www.weareceda.org/ceda-publica...
NEWS: #Ecuador is now home to the third-highest level of displaced people in Latin America. More than 100,000 people fled their homes in 2024 due to the escalation of violence. www.primicias.ec/seguridad/de...
CEDA is concerned by the arrest of Salvadoran lawyer Ruth López, Head of Cristosal’s Anti-Corruption Unit, and signed onto an FIDH letter condemning her forced disappearance and detention: www.fidh.org/en/region/am...
A Board of Immigration Appeals court ruling on the case of a Chinese immigrant could have ramifications on Cubans in the US with #I220A immigration documents. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...
NEWS: The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has granted a license for the incorporation and operation in the country of NOVABANK S.A., a wholly Canadian-owned corporate bank that will serve the private sector.
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"This moment is not about symbolism. It is a test of whether the Global Compact on Migration can remain relevant in an era defined by shrinking protection space, increasingly hostile narratives, and growing political pressure to criminalize mobility." www.weareceda.org/ceda-publica...
For the first time, the US is ending the dream of a green card for 550,000 Cubans, a group historically favored by immigration laws. Cubans face difficulties finding work and legalizing their status, similar to the rest of the Latin community. elpais.com/us/migracion...
Over half a million Cubans hold I-220A status in the US. This is deeply troubling and will have far-reaching effects. wsvn.com/news/us-worl...
