Report

Ailing Justice—New Jersey: Inadequate Healthcare, Indifference, and Indefinite Confinement in Immigration Detention

February 27, 2018

 

Every year, the U.S. government locks up hundreds of thousands of immigrants despite the existence of effective—and cost-effective—alternative-to-detention programs. Detention itself can be traumatizing,…

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Punishing Refugees and Migrants: The Trump Administration’s Misuse of Criminal Prosecutions

January 18, 2018

As the world continues to face the largest displacement crisis since World War II, President Trump’s first year in office has been marked by xenophobic,…

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Democracy in Danger

December 8, 2017

 

The 2013-14 Euromaidan protests brought down the corrupt government of President Viktor Yanukovych and offered Ukrainians the prospect a brighter and freer future. Four…

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Titled Justice: Backlogs Grow While Fairness Shrinks in U.S. Immigration Courts

October 17, 2017

The backlog in the U.S. immigration courts has reached an all-time high, with 632,261 cases pending as of August 2017. In some of the…

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Judge and Jailer: Asylum Seekers Denied Parole in Wake of Trump Executive Order

September 29, 2017

On January 25, 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to allocate “all legally available resources” to…

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Report: How to Protect Civil Society and Promote Stability in Egypt

September 28, 2017

Citing a steadily worsening human rights situation, activists and foreign diplomats in Cairo urge the U.S. government to withhold military aid from the Egyptian government.…

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U.S. Leadership Forsaken: Six Months of the Trump Refugee Bans

July 27, 2017

The United States has long been a global leader in protecting and resettling persecuted refugees, and over the years has encouraged other countries to launch…

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Dangerous Territory: Mexico Still Not Safe for Refugees

July 18, 2017

Earlier this year the Trump Administration and its Congressional allies advanced proposals to foist U.S. refugee protection obligations onto Mexico and to block from the…

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