Featured Issue: 2019 Large-Scale Enforcement Actions and Raids
American Immigration Lawyers Association (August 2019)
This webpage provides various resources to assist in responding to large-scale immigration enforcement actions and raids.
Helping Immigrant Clients with Post-Conviction Legal Options: A Guide for Legal Services Providers
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (June 14, 2019)
This guide, created by the ILRC and Californians for Safety and Justice, is an effort to turn these “rare cases” into the rule, rather than the exception, by helping to build the capacity of legal service providers and pro bono attorneys to provide post-conviction relief to immigrants who would face certain deportation without it.
Practice Advisory: Immigration Benefits for Surviving Relatives
Peggy Gleason, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (May 2019)
This practice advisory covers three possible immigration remedies that beneficiaries might be able to pursue if a family member dies during the immigration process.
What Part of Legal Immigration Don’t You Understand?
Mike Flynn & Shikha Dalmia, Reason Magazine (October 2009)
This document provides a visual graphic of the pathways through the U.S. immigration system in order to attain legal status.
Legal Resource List
Center on Immigration & Child Welfare, Corinne Wolfe Center for Child & Family Justice (April 2019)
This document highlights legal resources related to child welfare, public benefits, separated children, special immigrant juvenile status, and trauma responsive practice.
Practice Advisory: Asylum Seekers Stranded in Mexico Because of the Trump Administration’s Restrictive Policies: Firm Resettlement Considerations
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (April 24, 2019)
This practice advisory takes practitioners through firm resettlement considerations and potential arguments. It also provides discussion around exceptions to the firm resettlement bar and reviews known facts about the legal status of U.S. asylum seekers who are forced to remain in Mexico.
How Early Childhood Providers Can Create “Safe Space” Policies
Rebecca Ullrich, CLASP (April 2019)
CLASP has released a guide to creating “safe space” policies for early childhood programs. Safe-space policies safeguard programs against immigration enforcement actions and protect families’ safety and privacy. In this guide, advocates, providers, and policymakers will find information about developing and implementing safe-space policies, sample policy text that can be adapted by individual early childhood programs, and a list of key resources for providers and parents.
Webinar: Current Issues Impacting TPS and DED Clients
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (March 22, 2019)
This webinar reviews recent developments that affect TPS and DED clients, including litigation challenges, advocacy efforts, and best practice recommendations.
Advocating for the International Child
Susannah Volpe and Pamela Kemp, National Association of Counsel for Children Conference (August 2017)
This article provides an overview of legal options, advocacy strategies, and useful tools for navigating situations in which child welfare and child protection work intersects with immigration enforcement.
Filing Immigration Enforcement Civil Rights Complaints for Violations of the “Sensitive Locations” Policy At or Near Your School
National Immigration Law Center (January 2019)
This resource includes a complaint form along with instructions which may be used by any schools, individuals, or organizations that have individual or collective complaints about local law enforcement officers or immigration officials violating the “sensitive locations” memos at or near you school (or other locations) or committing misconduct, racial profiling, or other civil rights abuses in the course of enforcing immigration laws.
