September 19, 2018
U.S.-Affiliated Iraqis and the Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) Program The Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program was created for Iraqis who were employed in…
September 19, 2018
2009-2018 What is the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program? In 2009, Congress passed the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009. The Act provided special immigrant…
September 17, 2018
Secretary Pompeo recently announced the Trump Administration’s intention to set the refugee admissions goal for Fiscal Year 2019 at an all-time low of 30,000 refugees,…
September 5, 2018
When a person seeking protection enters the United States, they are often placed in immigration detention—a costly, largely unnecessary move that negatively impacts an individual’s physical and…
August 20, 2018
“Our children, who range in age from 2 to 16, have been deprived of a normal life.…
August 20, 2018
What are “Family Residential Centers?”
In response to the increasing numbers of women and children requesting asylum at the southern border in the summer…
August 20, 2018
“We left our homes in Central America to escape corruption, threats, and violence. We thought this country would help us, but now we are locked…
August 20, 2018
Leading pediatricians, physicians, and social workers have described the negative effects of immigration detention on children, which include behavioral regressions, depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
“The act of…