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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Critiquing Matter of A-B-: An Uncertain Future in Asylum Proceedings for Women Fleeing Intimate Partner Violence by Theresa A. Vogel
Critiquing Matter of A-B-: An Uncertain Future in Asylum Proceedings for Women Fleeing Intimate Partner Violence by Theresa A. Vogel, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Volume 52 |…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Migrants Held Under El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas
There are so many migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border that the CBP in El Paso has taken to housing spillover underneath the Bridge of the Americas on a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Volunteering to Assist Asylum Seekers in Tijuana
Guest blogger: Nicole Gorney, University of San Francisco law student, who recently volunteered counseling asylum seekers gathered in Tijuana.Heading down to Tijuana for my spring break with Al Otro Lado,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
We Fled the Gangs in Honduras. Then the U.S. Government Took My Baby.
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Sindy Flores explains why her family fled Honduras, only to be separated from her baby. The beginning reads as follows:"I am an…
The Asylumist
For Asylum Seekers, Filing On Time Is (Almost) Half the Battle
By Jason Dzubow
If you look at the most recent statistics from the Asylum Division, the likelihood of receiving asylum affirmatively is only about 27%, nation-wide. However, if you remove people from the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Migration Information Source: Remain in Mexico Plan Echoes Earlier U.S. Policy to Deter Haitian Migration
Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter for Migration Information Source looks at the historical antecedents of the Trump administration's "remain in Mexico" policy aimed at deterring the rising numbers of migrants…
ImmigrationProf Blog
“It’s a big, fat con job”: Trump on Asylum Seekers
In a March 28 rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, President Trump said:You have people coming up, you know they're all met by the lawyers, the lawyers of... And they come…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DHS Asks Congress for Expanded Authority to Detain and Deport Migrant Children
CNN reports that, in a letter to lawmakers, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen has requested Congress for the authority to return Central American unaccompanied children to…
Religion Clause
9th Circuit: Sikh Asylum Applicant Did Not Show Past Persecution
To qualify for asylum as a refugee, an individual must show either past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. (8 CFR 1208.13). In Singh v. Barr, (9th Cir., March…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Silence and the Second Wall by Ming Hsu Chen and Zachary New
Ming Hsu ChenSilence and the Second Wall by Ming Hsu Chen and Zachary NewAbstractThe Trump administration has made its clarion call “build the wall.” From the start of the presidential…