the health, economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic were ubiquitous across the United States Hospitalisation and infections rates quadrupled between November and December, overwhelming healthcare systems (CDC, 2021).

The global pandemic has changed how frontline service providers respond to domestic violence (DV). Advocates see an increase in the severity and complexity of DV cases, with COVID-19 complicating decisions of DV survivors to seek help. Domestic Violence High Risk Teams (DVHRT) include police, probation and parole officers, prosecutors, medical professionals, and DV advocates uniquely poised to respond collaboratively to increased DV case numbers and escalating risk of lethality for DV survivors. Adapting intervention and advocacy to the online sphere carries challenges but also opportunities to help DV survivors and their communities find safety.

The convergence of criminal and immigration law, called "crimmigration," is reshaping the experiences of immigrants across the spectrum of documentation status, punishing immigrants with criminal consequences for infractions of changing immigration law. Crimmigration is the product of increasingly punitive policies that have been emerging in the USA for more than a century. This paper assesses the role of economic fears spur increasingly harsh immigration laws, as well as the economic toll of the crimmigration nexus. It also considers the contribution of right-wing ideologues whose increased influence in government policy contributes to draconian changes to immigration policy, inaugurating the crimmigatory state.

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Resettlement-related macro practice reflects a complicated history of immigration and refugee resettlement in the United States, as well as international and domestic policies that shape opportunities and services available to refugees who resettle through these mechanisms. Four intersecting domains of resettlement macro practice are (a) community organizing and community development, (b) advocacy, (c) policy analysis and development, and (d) community-centered management and program planning. To engage meaningfully in macro social work requires a grasp of the history and policies that drive decision-making of individual practitioners and shape the experiences of people resettling to the United States in search of safety and new beginnings. Research and participatory approaches are integral to resettlement macro practice to ensure refugee communities are at the center of all efforts to inform structural and systemic change.