Emails show that in 2018, USCIS employees were rewarded with bonuses and a celebratory lunch for helping to create a new draconian "public charge" rule, which penalizes immigrants who access certain public benefits or are presumed at risk of needing public benefits, targeting low-income people of color and intentionally obstructing lawful immigration. The rule also discriminates against immigrants based on their wealth, race, country of origin, language abilities or disability status.
...Another attorney for the immigrants, Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, emphasized that the legal obligation not to turn back asylum-seekers with meritorious claims is rooted in U...
THE PATH TO BECOMING A PUBLIC DEFENDER Saturday, July 26 2008 The George Washington University Law School Free Registration & Updated Schedule: www.pdsdc.org Schedule at a Glance (in progress) 8:...
Revelations that the National Security Agency is collecting data, "on an ongoing, daily basis," on all domestic and foreign telephone calls made by Verizon customers should absolutely...
When Mary Sheilds was first sent to prison, her daughter was too young to understand why their phone calls would cut off mid-conversation and why she would not hear from her mother again for days...
September 9, 2019, Oakland, CA — A federal court has reinstated a nationwide injunction blocking a Trump administration asylum ban that denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had...
Reminders of Fahd's absence are everywhere. I see Fahd's face whenever I visit our mother, or call Fahd's wife, or give a gift to Hafsa. It is not a burden; I am honored to have become the guardian...
The United States government sent four American Muslim men letters notifying them that they had been removed from the No Fly List. The men had no criminal records when they were put on the list and...
Every day, federal officials are obligated to pay to hold 500 immigrants behind bars at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach to meet a contract with the for-profit prison, according to a...
The Obama administration is under growing pressure to change its policies governing the detention of thousands of migrants who came to the United States illegally. Maybe it is a coincidence, but...
