The Justice Department has reversed a Trump era ruling that severely restricted survivors of domestic violence and gang violence from seeking asylum in the U.S.
This commentary discusses the many challenges that asylees face in accessing needed health and other public benefits, and offers recommendations for improving access to services and benefits for this vulnerable population.
This toolkit provides recommendations and best practices for Criminal Defenders working with noncitizen clients who are at risk for deportation. While geared toward practitioners in California, this toolkit may have applications for federal defenders across the U.S.
These guides for families, advocates, educators and school administrators provide resources to better understand schools’ and districts’ responsibilities to immigrant students and families and to address language access and enrollment barriers in public elementary and secondary schools. These resources are available in multiple languages.
This article highlights the difference between state and federal foster care programs in Tennessee.
ICE issued a memo in late May that expanded on ICE prosecutors’ discretion to dismiss cases of certain immigrants, e.g., long-time permanent residents; the pregnant, elderly, or those with serious health condition; or those who’ve been in the U.S. since a young age.
This article describes the conditions experienced by unaccompanied children in U.S. government emergency shelters.
This report details the deportations of thousands of unaccompanied minors by both the USA and Mexico without sufficient screenings for the danger and harm these children may encounter, and offers recommendation to both nation’s government to address these issues.
Asylum-seekers who were impacted by the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy will be able to return for another chance at humanitarian protection beginning June 23rd.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas.
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