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ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. Government Complicit in Mistreatment of Chinese Immigrants
Here is another thoughtful response to a New York Times article on "asylum abuse." Allegations of asylum abuse in high profile media outlets deserve reponse. Rcall that a 60 Minutes story on asylum…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Domestic Violence Survivors and Board of Immigration Appeals
By margaretdrew
Co-Editor Sital Kalantry addresses the difficulties that domestic violence survivors encounter when attemtpting to fit into a classification under which they might find relief through the Board of Immigration Appeals…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Domestic Violence Asylum after Matter of L-R by Jessica Marsden
Domestic Violence Asylum after Matter of L-R by Jessica Marsden Yale University - Law School February 5, 2014 Yale Law Journal, Vol. 123, ForthcomingAbstract: Women fleeing severe domestic violence have…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Syrians Seek U.S. Asylum via Mexico
See this story on a development that is not entirely surprising given the horrific bloodletting in Syria.KJ Related articlesAsylum Data from 44 Industrialized CountriesSyrians Seek U.S. Asylum via MexicoSyrians Seek U.S.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Refugees and Asylees in the United States
More than 87,000 people were resettled as refugees in the United States or were granted asylum status during 2012, with grants of asylum up 19 percent and refugee admissions up…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New BIA Social Group Rulings
Last Friday, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued two rulings (here and here) clarifying the standard for asylum claims based on membership in a particular social group. We will be posting analysis of the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Asylum Seekers and Mass Immigration Detention in the United States by Christina Elefteriades Haines and Anil Kalhan
Asylum Seekers and Mass Immigration Detention in the United States by Christina Elefteriades Haines (Drexel) and Anil Kalhan (Drexel)Abstract: In this essay, we discuss how the increasingly punitive nature of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: ‘Conditional Admission’ and Other Mysteries: Setting the Record Straight on the ‘Admission’ Status of Refugees and Asylees by Laura Murray-Tjan
'Conditional Admission' and Other Mysteries: Setting the Record Straight on the 'Admission' Status of Refugees and Asylees by Laura Murray-Tjan, Boston College Law School August 12, 2013 New York University…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Petition for Release of Honduran Asylum Applicant
From the Law Office of Robert Jobe:PLEASE consider signing, posting, and forwarding this petition to DHS/ICE for the release of our client, Miguel Paz, from detention in Georgia. He's an…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Philip G. Schrag and Jaya Ramji-Nogales
Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security by Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Philip G. Schrag and Jaya Ramji-NogalesAlthough Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of…