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Refugee Status
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ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. sex-offender granted refugee status in Canada
The National Post reports that a U.S. citizen who was convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old boy and fled to Saskatchewan, Canada where she sought asylum, has been granted…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Matter of E-F-H-L- : New BIA Precedent Decision on the Right to an Asylum Hearing
In Matter of E-F-H-L-, which was decided today, the Board of Immigration Appeals in a precedent ruling found that, in the ordinary course of removal proceedings, an applicant for asylum…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Contemporary U.S. Response to Central American Immigration: Some Improvements from the 1980s?
In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States experienced a large migration of asylum seekers from El Salvador and Guatemala, people who fled raging civil wars and crushing poverty. Under…
ImmigrationProf Blog
At the Movies: The Stranger
“The Stranger” is a 45-minute documentary film commissioned by the Evangelical Immigration Table and produced by Emmy-award winning producer Linda Midgett. The Stranger profiles three immigrant stories and includes interviews…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Lawsuit Filed Over Border Detention Conditions: Quiñones Flores v. USA — Detention in Hieleras (Freezers)
LexisNexis® Legal Newsroom Immigration Law reports that Americans for Immigrants Justice (AI Justice) and Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli & Pratt, P.A., filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Easterm District…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Drug Addiction: Is Persecution Over There, Persecution Over Here?
Guest blogger: Camille Desai, second-year law student, University of San FranciscoWhen immigration judges define what it means to be persecuted in another country, what happens when the same definition applies…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Symposium on US Refugee Protection System
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is in the process of publishing a series of papers by leading experts on the U.S. refugee, political asylum and temporary…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Medical Legal Partnerships Supporting Asylum Seekers
By margaretdrew
Many resources within a community can come together effectively to support those seeking asylum. As reported in the Providence Journal on March 31st, in Providence, Rhode Island a new project…
International Law Prof Blog
UNHCR Issues Annual Report on Asylum Trends
Earlier this week, the United Nations Commission for Refugees issued the 2013 Asylum Trends report, which indicates a 28% increase in the number of asylum claims filed in industrialized countries last…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Icon Elvira Arrellano Back in United States!
Fox News Latino reports that Mexican activist Elvira Arellano, who holed up in a Chicago church for more than a year to avoid deportation, was released in San Diego two days…