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“I am in limbo:” Our New Report on the Asylum Backlog and how the Biden Administration Should Resolve it

April 12, 2021

Family separation takes many forms in the U.S. immigration system. By the time public outcry forced the Trump Administration to halt its explicit family separation…

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Protection Postponed: Asylum Office Backlogs Cause Suffering, Separate Families, and Undermine Integration

April 8, 2021

The Biden Administration has inherited a large and growing backlog of asylum claims. As of September 2020, more than 386,000 applications were awaiting adjudication by the…

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Humanitarian Disgrace

December 16, 2020

U.S. Continues to Illegally Block, Expel Refugees to Danger

The Trump Administration continues to break U.S. laws and treaty obligations that protect refugees from persecution,…

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Asylum Denied, Families Divided: Trump Administration’s Illegal Third-Country Transit Ban

July 15, 2020

One year ago, on July 16, 2019, the Trump administration issued a rule barring asylum for virtually all refugees who travel through another country on…

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New Law, New Threat

June 2, 2020

Leading civil society figures in Hong Kong are responding with alarm and fear to the prospect of a new national security law that would give…

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Pandemic as Pretext

May 13, 2020

Trump Administration Exploits COVID-19, Expels Asylum Seekers and Children to Escalating Danger

The Trump Administration is exploiting the coronavirus crisis to pursue its

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A Year of Horrors: The Trump Administration’s Illegal Returns of Asylum Seekers to Danger in Mexico

January 22, 2020

Since January 2019, the Trump Administration has forcibly returned thousands of asylum seekers to Mexico under a policy it absurdly dubbed as the “Migrant Protection…

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A Year of Horrors: The Trump Administration’s Illegal Returns of Asylum Seekers to Danger in Mexico

January 22, 2020

Since January 2019, the Trump Administration has forcibly returned thousands of asylum seekers to Mexico under a policy it absurdly dubbed as the “Migrant Protection…

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