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Refugee Status
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Board of Immigration Appeals Recognizes Domestic Violence as a Basis for Asylum
The UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies issued this press release late yesterday:The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the highest administrative immigration court in the United States, published…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Child Migrants in the Midst of Our Border Crisis
by Caroline Bettinger-Lopez Some of the summer’s biggest news headlines have focused on the surge of children from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras who, fleeing widespread violence and extreme poverty, have…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Lawsuit Against ICE for Conditions and Procedures at Artesia Facility
From ACLUGroups Sue U.S. Government over Life-Threatening Deportation Process Against Mothers and Children Escaping Extreme Violence in Central AmericaWashington D.C. — The American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union National…
The Right Coast
San Diego Chaldeans Call For Asylum For Iraqi Christians In March Through El Cajon | KPBS
Hundreds of Iraqi Chaldeans and other community members marched through the streets of El Cajon on Tuesday evening calling on the U.S. to grant asylum to tens of thousands of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Second Circuit Seeks BIA Help on Whether Political Activity in US Can Satisfy Asylum Standard
In Lin v. Holder, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in an unanimous opinion by Judge Guido Calabresi, yesterday stated that:"This case concerns whether political ac tivity…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Advice for Pro Se Immigration Litigants by Tomothy Dugdale
Pro se litigants in immigration cases have to face the music early and often that there is no substitute for research. You may have no money for a lawyer but…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Review of Gender, Child, and LGBTI Asylum Guidelines and Case Law in Foreign Jurisdictions: A Resource for U.S. Attorneys
The UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) has released a new resource, Review of Gender, Child, and LGBTI Asylum Guidelines and Case Law in Foreign Jurisdictions: A…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The New Republic on “The Border Crisis”
Editors and contributors of The New Republic report on the different angles of the border crisis. From the violence migrants face at home to the smuggling of U.S. guns into…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Who Counts as a Refugee in US Immigration Policy—and Who Doesn’t
Pablo Lastra, Asylum Program Coordinator of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area has published a piece in The Nation, "Who Counts as a Refugee in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Untold History of Unaccompanied Minors
From JOrge Rivas of Fusion:Public opinion remains deeply divided over whether the U.S. government has a moral obligation to offer asylum to Central Americans children escaping political persecution or violence…