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ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump Administration Issues New Rule: Asylum seekers who pass through third country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border
Colleen Long for AP reports that the Trump administration today moved to restrict asylum protections for Central American migrants "in a major escalation of the president’s battle to tamp down…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Lawsuit
ASAP Sues Government to Stop Deportations in Advance of ICE RaidsNew York, NY — The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) today joined the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Immigrant Defenders…
The Asylumist
The Great Asylum Officer Rebellion of 2019
By Jason Dzubow
The Trump Administration has been doing everything it can to block asylum seekers from reaching our shores (everything, that is, except working with Congress to reform the law). Many of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Fear, Confusion And Separation As Trump Administration Sends Migrants Back To Mexico
NPR reports that more than 6,000 migrants who came to the United States to ask for asylum have been sent back to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the border from…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Realothetical: The Chinese Muslims of Xinjiang
Here is an asylum realothetical for your class: Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang also called Uyghurs or Uighurs.Just a few months ago, Vox reported on the detention of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Sexual Abuse of Asylum Seekers – A Worldwide Phenomenon
It's heartbreaking how many humans across the globe see the desperation of asylum seekers as an opportunity for abuse and exploitation.From Norway this week, we have the story of Svein…
ImmigrationProf Blog
District Count Enjoins No Bond Policy, Trump Administration Objects
US News & World Reports reports on a federal court ruling blocking an order by Attorney General William Barr that would have denied some asylum-seekers a bond hearing, which would…
The Right Coast
No, The Trump Administration Is Not Torturing Migrants
The weaknesses of our asylum regime, as much as our glaring inability to care for the large numbers of people crossing the border, are now apparent to a gaping world…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives by S. Megan Berthold and Kathryn R. Libal, Editors
Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives by S. Megan Berthold and Kathryn R. Libal, EditorsThis volume engages international human rights, domestic immigration law and refugee policy in the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Human Rights Watch: ‘We Can’t Help You Here’: US Returns of Asylum Seekers to Mexico
The United States government should cease returning asylum seekers to wait in Mexico during their US immigration court proceedings, Human Rights Watch and the Hope Border Institute said in a…