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ImmigrationProf Blog
Law Student Does Good: Notre Dame Law student helps win asylum for Salvadoran mother and child
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (Notre Dame Law Seal)Good news from the heartland! young mother and child from El Salvador were granted asylum in the United States last week, thanks to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Death on the Border — US: Extreme Heat Should Prompt New Border Approach
Photo courtesy of WikimediaExtreme heat in the United States in the summer of 2021 underscores the urgency of adopting a climate-informed approach to policies affecting border communities, migrants, and asylum…
The Asylumist
Congress Addresses the Asylum Office Backlog
By Jason Dzubow
In April, I wrote about our efforts to lobby Congress for help with the affirmative asylum backlog. Those efforts have […] The post Congress Addresses the Asylum Office Backlog appeared…
ImmigrationProf Blog
TRAC Immigration Immigration Court Struggling to Manage Its Expanding Dedicated Docket of Asylum-Seeking Families
The latest from TRAC Immigration:"During the month of August, the Biden administration stepped up the assignment of asylum-seeking families arriving at the border to the Immigration Court's new "Dedicated Docket"…
McEntee Law Group Blog
Weekly Review: September 6th-September 10th
This week, we read about a Trump-era immigration policy that may return, private donations to fund the wall at the border, and a California bill that would give incarcerated immigrants…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Mexico: Mass Expulsion of Asylum Seekers to Guatemala — Migrants Expelled From US, Mexico Without Due Process
According to Human Rights Watch, Mexico has been carrying out mass expulsion of migrants and asylum seekers to a remote area of the jungle in Guatemala, putting lives at risk. …
ImmigrationProf Blog
From The Bookshelves: The Asylumist by Jason Dzubow
Jason Dzubow is the author of The Asylumist blog and, now, a book by the same name.The full title of the book is The Asylumist: How to Seek Asylum in…
The Faculty Lounge
Recent Op-ed on a Biden proposed policy change
President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Aug. 18 a new policy aiming to streamline the political asylum application process. With a goal…
Immigration Lawyers Blog
Immigration Weekly Round-Up: New Jersey Formally Ends Future Immigration Detention; Most New Immigrants Must Get Vaccinated; Supreme Court Reinstates Remain in Mexico Policy for Asylum Seekers
New Jersey Governor Moves to Ban Future ICE Detention Centers New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill that bans state and county governments from entering or renewing existing…
Knowledge Centre
BF (Eritrea): Challenging the lawfulness of the Secretary of State’s policy guidance
In a judgment given on 30 July 2021 in R (on the application of BF (Eritrea)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 38, the Supreme Court…