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Refugee Status
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Immigration Lawyers Blog
ICE Says It Is Ending Use of Family Detention
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) disclosed in a Federal Court filing that it is ending the use of family detention and transitioning it to short-term facilities. These facilities will release…
UK Human Rights Blog
The Weekly Round-up: expeditious return vs non-refoulment
The duty to expeditiously return under the Hague Convention vs the principle of non-refoulment in asylum lawIn the News: Last week, the Supreme Court considered an interesting interplay between two…
The Asylumist
To Solve the Border Crises, We Need to Decide Who Qualifies for Asylum
By Jason Dzubow
It’s less than two months since President Biden took office, and already it seems we are facing a new surge […] The post To Solve the Border Crises, We Need…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Human Rights Watch: Mexico: Abuses Against Asylum Seekers at US Border
Asylum seekers sent to Mexico by the administration of former US president Donald Trump have suffered violence and extortion by Mexican police, immigration agents, and criminal groups, according to Human…
For Good
Proskauer Secures Asylum for Client Persecuted Based on Sexual Orientation
On February 5, 2021, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) granted asylum to our client, a gay man who suffered horrific violence based on his sexual orientation. For…
The Asylumist
What Asylum Seekers and Their Lawyers Need from President Biden: Predictability
By Jason Dzubow
Just before Christmas 2020 and without any advance warning, the Trump Administration changed the deadline for submitting documents to Immigration […] The post What Asylum Seekers and Their Lawyers Need…
The Right Coast
First migrants walk across the border from Mexico after Biden administration relaxed asylum rules | Daily Mail Online
'We've just received news that tomorrow we're leaving!' said Honduran asylum seeker Josue Cornejo in a video recorded inside the camp on Friday evening, which also shows his wife and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
#WeCanWelcome​ Asylum Seekers: Meet Mirna Linares de Batres
Ftom Refugees International:n the prior presidential administration, policy-makers stoked a “border crisis” narrative that willfully ignored both the capacity and the will of Americans to welcome people seeking safety from…
The Asylumist
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 and Asylum
By Jason Dzubow
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 is finally here. It was unveiled last week by Senator Bob Menendez and Representative […]
ImmigrationProf Blog
Supreme Court News: Court to Review Public Charge Case, Hear Asylum Credibility Oral Arguments Tomorrow
Amy Howe on SCOTUSBlog reports that the Supreme Court today granted review in another immigration case:"The justices also granted the federal government’s request to weigh in on the `public charge'…