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The Faculty Lounge
“A Beacon of Hope for Asylum Seekers”
If anyone still doubts the educational and social value of clinical legal education, please read this article about my brilliant colleague Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe and her work in our Bluhm…
ImmigrationProf Blog
240 Asylum Seekers Told To Remain in Mexico
From NBC News:Under the Trump administration's Remain in Mexico policy, 240 asylum-seekers have been turned around near San Diego and sent back to Mexico where they must wait until a U.S. immigration…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
New Bill to Classify Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Rewire.News (Mar. 7, 2019): Here's How Democrats Want to Classify Reproductive Rights as Human Rights, by Katelyn Burns:The Trump administration's State Department deleted reproductive rights from its human rights report…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Human Rights Award Given to Manus Detainee
Abdul Aziz Muhamat tried to seek asylum in Australia after fleeing the Sudan. He never made it there. Instead, he spent years detained in one of Australia's off-shore detention facilities…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: ‘Can One Still Call It Ignorance or Bias? Nexus Test Modified, but Courts Still Fail to Address International Law Under the International Religious Freedom Act’ by Craig Mousin
‘Can One Still Call It Ignorance or Bias? Nexus Test Modified, but Courts Still Fail to Address International Law Under the International Religious Freedom Act’ by Craig B. Mousin, in Migration…
The Right Coast
Border at Breaking Point as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month – The New York Times
The high number of families crossing the border suggest that President Trump s policies aimed at deterring asylum seekers are not having their intended effect. Up to 2,000 migrants who…
For Good
Proskauer Continues Partnership with John Jay College
Following my experience assisting immigrant families at the border, I have shared the story, the urgent challenges, and the need for change with many audiences. I have presented the same…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. government documents show thousands of alleged incidents of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in custody
CNN reports on a deeply troubling story. As we know, the Trump administration has greatly ramped up the detention of Central American asylum seekers, including minors, and went so far…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Detention Center in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, Far From Immigration Counsel
photo Troy Catchings / Clarksdale Press Register / AP file Check out this disturbing article from Mother Jones about the detention of asylum seekers at a Core Civic facility in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
When Spouse’s Freedom Depends on ICE Agent’s Discretion
From Rewire:“¿Cómo estás, mi amor?” This is how Berenilsse Marcial greets her son Louis after picking him up from his after-school program the evening of January 23. She has been…