Letter

Letter to DHS and the State Department on the MPP Wind Down Process

March 12, 2021

Dear Secretaries Mayorkas and Blinken:

Our faith-based, humanitarian, legal services, immigration, and human rights organizations and law school clinics welcome the administration’s initial steps to…

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NGO Letter to Biden Administration on Asylum Seeker Expulsions to Haiti

March 3, 2021

Dear President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary Blinken, and Secretary Mayorkas:

We, the undersigned, write to express our horror and outrage regarding the United States…

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NGO Letter to HHS and CDC on Orders Authorizing Border Expulsions

February 22, 2021

Dear Acting Secretary Cochran and Director Walensky:

As organizations that represent and advocate for migrants, refugees, and immigrant children as well as organizations committed to…

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NGO Letter Urging DHS to Reject Use of Expedited Removal

February 16, 2021

Dear Secretary Mayorkas,

Our undersigned faith-based, immigration, civil rights, and human rights organizations urge the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reject the use of…

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NGO Letter to Biden Administration Welcoming Asylum Executive Order, Urging Swift Rescission of Harmful Policies

February 9, 2021

Dear President Biden:

The executive orders your administration issued last week are welcome initial steps toward ending the illegal and inhumane asylum and border policies…

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Illegal Pushbacks by the United States of People Seeking Refugee Protection

February 1, 2021

Human Rights First’s Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants…

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“We Need Someone to See Us”: To Save Lives, the Biden Administration Should Quickly Restore Refugee Protection

January 13, 2021

Ana and Jorge, an Afro-Cuban couple, were kidnapped soon after U.S. border officers expelled them to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico in 2020. They’d crossed the border…

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For the Biden Administration, 10 Lessons from 10 Years of U.S. Mideast Policy

January 12, 2021

The Arab Spring uprisings began ten years ago, taking the U.S. government and most of the rest of the world by surprise. The Obama administration’s…

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