October 16, 2019...The attorney general was joined by a coalition of civil rights groups, led by Make the Road New York. Ghita Schwarz, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said she had been “very...
October 16, 2019... The rule "would have have erected an invisible wall to basically keep" low-income immigrants out," Hasan Shafiqullah, attorney-in-charge of the Legal Aid Society's immigration law unit, said...
Fear grips immigrant communities threatened by Trump’s ‘public charge’ proposal “If you’re not wealthy, you’re not welcome.” Under the Trump administration’s proposed “public charge” rule, many green...
Updated: November 1, 2019
November 8, 2019...U.S. officials have repeatedly said the right way to seek asylum is to request it at border crossings, instead of entering illegally. That has caused tens of thousands of migrants to wait in often...
November 8, 2019...Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Baher Azmy argued the class members relied on the government’s representation they would have access to the asylum process if they waited in Mexico...
November 8, 2019...In Tijuana, there were roughly 9,600 names on the list, according to Al Otro Lado, a binational organization advocates for immigrants’ rights that provides pro-bono legal services to migrants...
Provides Important Protection for Those Previously Turned Back at Ports of Entry SAN DIEGO – A federal judge today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of...
November 21, 2019Earlier this year in June, Dr. Scott Warren walked away from the Tucson federal courthouse a free man. The DOJ had charged him with harboring, arguing that he deserved up to twenty years in prison...
November 21, 2019... “These asylum seekers have a deep commitment to following our laws in seeking protection, and we are relieved to see that their decision to follow our government’s instructions to wait in Mexico...
November 21, 2019...As of August, weeks after the asylum ban took effect, there were roughly 26,000 asylum seekers either on wait lists or waiting to get on those wait lists in 12 Mexican border cities, according to...
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