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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Nonrefoulement: Responding to Asylum-seekers through the Prism of Subversive Stories: A Study of Three Trials of Innocence by Craig Mousin
“Nonrefoulement: Responding to Asylum-seekers through the Prism of Subversive Stories: A Study of Three Trials of Innocence,” a chapter in Furthering Interfaith Biblical Scholarship, A Festschrift in Memory of André LaCocque (Wipf…
The Asylumist
No CBP One = No Asylum?
By Jason Dzubow
In January 2023, Customs and Border Protection launched a new iteration of its CBP One app. When it functions, the […]
UK Human Rights Blog
The Weekly Round-up: Hate speech in the UK, asylum seekers in Diego Garcia, and Ukraine ratifies ICC Rome Statute
In UK news The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has published a report which found that black children are four times more likely to be strip searched…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum by Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin
Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum by Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin (NYU Press, forthcoming 2024)This bool may interest ImmigrationProf blog readers. From the publisher:"How the US asylum process fails to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Swallowing Razors, Gouging Their Eyes Out: The Detainee Treatment Act and Eighth Amendment Protections for Asylum Seekers in Segregated Isolation by Alcira Silva Hava
Swallowing Razors, Gouging Their Eyes Out: The Detainee Treatment Act and Eighth Amendment Protections for Asylum Seekers in Segregated Isolation by Alcira Silva Hava, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, ForthcomingAbstractThis…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Report: Don’t Tell Me About Your Fear’: Elimination of Longstanding Safeguard Leads to Systematic Violations of Refugee Law
In the June 2024 asylum ban rule, the Biden administration eliminated a safeguard to protect people seeking asylum from being summarily deported without a chance to present their asylum claim.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Chronicle: Many Asylum Seekers Are Being Expelled, But Not Before Giving Up Their DNA
Melissa Del Bosque for the Border Chronicle review how U.S. Customs and Border Protection's "sweeping DNA program places asylum seekers’ genetic profiles in a massive criminal investigations database without their…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Human Rights Watch: Deported Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Returned to US
Human Rights Watch reports that "[t]he United States government has, since May 2024, approved the return of 27 Cameroonian asylum seekers who experienced serious harm in Cameroon after their deportation from the US in 2020,…
The Right Coast
The Southern Border, Terrorism Fears, and the Arrests of 8 Tajik Men DNyuz
When eight Tajik men sought asylum at the southwestern U.S. border months ago, federal authorities had no reason to doubt that they were desperate migrants fleeing a poor country in…
McEntee Law Group Blog
Top 5 Immigration Challenges for LGBTQ+ & How We Support You
LGBTQ+ immigrants face unique obstacles during the immigration process. In the last two administrations, each President has changed the way in which they serve the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve seen dramatic…