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ImmigrationProf Blog
DHS and DOJ Finalize Rule to Incentivize Use of Lawful Immigration Pathways
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITYOffice of Public AffairsDHS and DOJ Finalize Rule to Incentivize Use of Lawful Immigration PathwaysRule places a condition on asylum eligibility for those who circumvent lawful…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Throwback Thursday: Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication
Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication, 60 Stan. L. Rev. 295 (2007), by Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag, is a prime for a Throwback Thursday moment.…
McEntee Law Group Blog
United States-Canada Border Policy Change
President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached an agreement in March after meeting in Ottawa to address migration, trade, and defense concerns. The agreement allows both countries to divert…
UK Human Rights Blog
The Weekly Round-Up: ‘Pyjama Injunctions’, the Rwanda Policy, and War in Sudan and Russia’s sentencing of Alexander Navalny
By Orry Moore
In the news Yet again, the Public Order Bill and the Illegal Migration Bill have been back in the papers this week. The latter has made it through the House…
Knowledge Centre
What is Asylum in the UK?
Asylum and asylum seekers have been near-constant features of the news cycle in the UK for several years now. With the recent introduction of the Nationality and Borders Act, the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LA Times Story Features Asylum Seeker Wrongfully Deported to the Country He Fled
Yesterday the Los Angeles Times ran this detailed feature telling the story of Mr. A (pseudonym), a young Afghan refugee who ICE wrongfully deported to Kabul in January. The next…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Seeker on Border Patrol: “They treat us like dogs, like animals.”
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsU.S. Border Patrol is holding some asylum-seekers in "an open-air holding cell between the two layers of border wall . . . with no shelter, no…
The Right Coast
Easter Miracle: U.S. Welcomes Exiled Chinese Christians | RealClearPolitics
IRVING, Texas It took three arduous years capped by a week-long legal ordeal for a group of 63 persecuted Chinese Christians to win asylum in the United States, but they…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From The Bookshelves: Precarious Protections by Chiara Galli
Chiara Galli is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in the Comparative Human Development Department. She's also the author of the 2023 book Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking…
The Asylumist
Affirmative Asylum Backlog Grows at Unprecedented Rate
By Jason Dzubow
USCIS recently released some new information to Congress about the affirmative asylum backlog, and–surprise, surprise–the news is not good. The […]