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ImmigrationProf Blog
Disturbing immigration news out of Sweden
The head of Sweden's Migration Board is facing calls to step down after the media reported that employees celebrated the deportation of asylum-seekers with cakes and champagne and yelled in…
Family Law Prof Blog
North Korean Refugees ending up in China as Sex Slaves
By Family Law
Many North Korean refugees who flee to China every year end up as sex slaves and China often sends them back for punishment, the U.S.ambassador for fighting international slavery said…
ImmigrationProf Blog
UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic Wins Again!!!
The UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic had two big wins this week in the Immigration Court in San Francisco. Jim Smith and Amagda Perez, the two sage staff attorneys in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DHS Press Release — Effort to End Orantes Injunction
Here is the latest from the Department of Homeland Security on border enforcement. The Orantes litigation was a landmark case in which the federal government was found to have violated…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Law Papers
The November issue of IMMIGRATION, REFUGEE & CITIZENSHIP LAW ABSTRACTS (Social Science Research Network) is out. Bernie Trujillo (Wisconsin) has joined Jack Chin (Arizona) as co-editor. The articles abstracted are…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Conferences
The Midwest Legal Immigration Project presents its 6th Annual Basic Immigration Law Training, an intensive 1-week seminar, May 16-20, 2005 in Des Moines, Iowa. Seminar covers: family immigration, deportation, asylum,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
SUMMER REFUGEE/WOMEN’S RIGHTS LAW CLERK POSITIONS
The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS), a national research and advocacy organization that works in support of women seeking asylum from gender persecution, seeks full-time Law Clerks for…
ImmigrationProf Blog
PBS Series on Rodi Alvarado Case
The National Immigration Project urges you to tune in to PBS TV on Oct. 26 to watch the story of Rodi Alvarado, the courageous asylum seeker who fled Guatemala after…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Refugee and Asylum Post in DHS
Due to the excellent advocacy of the Asylum Program (and Director Eleanor Arce) of Human Rights First, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff announced the decision to create a senior…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Articles
Amorosa, Judy. Note. Dissecting In re D-J-: the Attorney General, unchecked power, and the new national security threat posed by Haitian asylum seekers. (In re D-J-, 23 I. & N.…