We found 628 results for “Access to U.S. Asylum”.
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U.S. Must Refocus on Safety of Displaced Iraqis
January 28, 2010
Washington, DC Today, two years after the bipartisan Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act became law, Human Rights First is calling for a renewed focus on…
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Elisa Massimino Testifies on U.S. Implementation of Human Rights Treaties
December 16, 2009
Human Rights First’s President and CEO, Elisa Massimino, testifies today before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law. Read our press release, or…
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Asylum News 70
October 1, 2009
Attorney General Remands Case of Victim of Domestic Violence to the Board of Immigration Appeals Twelve years ago an immigration judge in San Francisco granted…
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Will the immigration detention system finally get the reforms it desperately needs?
August 7, 2009
Recent developments signal that real reform of the immigration detention system may finally be on the horizon. Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced…
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Blueprint for Obama Administration Provides Strategy for Stopping Arms to Sudan
December 22, 2008
NEW YORK – As the violence continues to escalate in Darfur, a leading human rights group today released a detailed strategy for President-elect Obama to…
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Blueprint for Obama Administration Provides Recommendations for Repairing the U.S. Asylum System
December 4, 2008
NEW YORK – A leading human rights advocacy group released a detailed strategy today for the next administration to repair the U.S. asylum system and…
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Asylum News 69
September 1, 2008
Congress Holds EOIR Oversight Hearing On September 23, 2008 the House Judiciary Committee held its first oversight hearing of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR),…
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Asylum News 68
August 1, 2008
Asylum Denied More Often by Politically Vetted Judges; DOJ Failure to Increase Number of Judges An August 24, 2008 analysis by The New York Times revealed that immigration…
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Asylum News 66
June 30, 2008
Congressional Committee Hears Testimony on Medical Care in Immigrant Detention On June 4, 2008, the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and…
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Human Rights First Welcomes Bill to Address Flawed Immigration Detention System
June 12, 2008
New York, NY – A bi-partisan group of Senators introduced “The Secure and Safe Detention and Asylum Act” (S. 3114) yesterday. The bill would address some…
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Archives of Human Rights First to be Housed at Columbia University Libraries
April 18, 2008
(NEW YORK, April 18, 2008) On February 20th, 2008, a formal agreement was signed by James Neal, Columbia’s Vice President for Information Services and University…
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Asylum News 63
March 30, 2008
Wave of Denials to Stop On March 26, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it would halt denials under the “material support” and “terrorism” bars…