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ImmigrationProf Blog
Guest Post: Stopping the Trump Administration from Stopping Gender-Based Asylum Claims by Brian Soucek
Guest Post: Stopping the Trump Administration from Stopping Gender-Based Asylum Claims by Brian Soucek, UC Davis School of LawThe comment period is now halfway done for the Trump Administration’s new…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Lingering Ghosts by Sam Ivin
PakistanTime waiting for asylum: 8 months (c) Sam IvinSam Ivin is a photographic artist. His series Lingering Ghosts (an exhibition and a photo book with a clever passport-style cover) should…
Religion Clause
Supreme Court Rejects Asylum Seeker’s Challenge To Limits On Review Of Claims
The U.S. Supreme Court today in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, (US Sup. Ct., June 25, 2020) upheld against constitutional attack a provision in the immigration law that prevents…
The Asylumist
Asylum Seekers Have Power! Here’s How You Can Help Save Asylum
By Jason Dzubow
As you probably know, the Trump Administration recently proposed regulations to make it much more difficult to obtain asylum in the United States. That’s the bad news. The good news…
The Asylumist
Asylum Seekers Have Power! Here’s How You Can Help Save Asylum
By Jason Dzubow
As you probably know, the Trump Administration recently proposed regulations to make it much more difficult to obtain asylum in the United States. That’s the bad news. The good news…
ImmigrationProf Blog
USCIS Rule Strengthens Employment Eligibility Requirements (i.e. Restricts Work Authorization) for Asylum Seekers
In the time of the coronavirus, the Trump administration is making many aggressive immigration policy changes. Besides the Presidential Proclamation extending the suspension of certain visas until the end of…
The Asylumist
All the Bad News that’s Fit to Print (Updated 06/17/20, 06/18/20 – and it ain’t all bad!, 06/19/20)
By Jason Dzubow
[Updates to this post will appear at the bottom of the article] There is an overwhelming amount of bad news these days. You’ve probably heard about the coronavirus pandemic and…
The Asylumist
All the Bad News that’s Fit to Print—Immigration updates
By Jason Dzubow
There is an overwhelming amount of bad news these days. You’ve probably heard about the coronavirus pandemic and the upheavals caused by racial injustice, but in the last couple weeks,…
Religion Clause
DOJ Proposes Changes In Asylum Procedures
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced yesterday that they have submitted to the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (full text) thatwill create more efficient procedures for…
The Asylumist
Why Immigrants Should Support Black Lives Matters, and How to Do It
By Jason Dzubow
For years, advocates for asylum seekers have been discussing the degradation of our nation’s immigration system: Due process protections have been eroded (or eliminated), non-violent aliens have been detained (sometimes…