This fact sheet highlights many concerns that have been raised by practitioners surrounding how the new public charge regulations will affect their clients.
This fact sheet provides a review of the “asylum cooperative agreements” policy that the U.S. signed with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras which allows the U.S. to send asylum seekers to these countries.
In this report, the Office of Inspector General details that DHS did not have the appropriate information technology (IT) system functionality to track separated migrant families during the execution of the Zero Tolerance Policy. It also details five recommendations for improving the Department’s ability to account for and reunify separated families.
Read MoreThis resource will help to determine a clients public charge applicability to applications and provides a list of relief forms to assist.
In 1997, the Flores Settlement Agreement established basic standards governing the custody, detention, and release of children in federal immigration custody. These standards are based on fundamental child welfare principles, namely that detention is harmful and that children should be reunified with their families as quickly as possible. This guide summarizes over two decades of lessons learned since its implementation and synthesizes the research and data that should ground future policy.
In an interim report issued in April 2019, a bipartisan panel made a set of emergency recommendations in response to the increase of immigrants, especially family units, at the southern border, including changes to asylum processing at the border. In this final report, the panel supplements the recommendations from their April report with additional recommendations related to emergency funding, U.S. government agency coordination, unaccompanied minors, federal investigative efforts, and push factors.
This resource finds that immigrants who have time-limited permission to live and work in the United States under a program known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) face an uncertain future amid legal and political debates over their future.
A new round of proposed regulations from the administration would make it impossible for most asylum seekers to be permitted to work while their cases are pending.
Read moreThis briefing paper looks at how current policies aimed at blocking the entry of children and asylum seekers contribute toward the humanitarian crisis at the border rather than existing laws designed to protect children.
This practice alert highlights the key take-aways from three recently adopted AAO decisions and some of the most important elements of the proposed regulations for advocates to challenge through comments, and contains an Appendix with case summaries of the AAO decisions.
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