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Innovation Lab: 2024 Demo Day
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Date: Thursday, September 12th Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT / 9:00 am to 10:00 am PDT Join us on Thursday, September 12th, as…
Fact Sheet
Saving Lives, Ending Inefficiencies
July 9, 2024
Steps to Strengthen the U.S. Asylum Adjudication System Overview People seeking asylum in the United States now face multi-year delays as they wait for their…
Press
On World Refugee Day, the U.S. Should Lead by Example
June 20, 2024
On World Refugee Day, Human Rights First applauds the Biden administration’s tremendous progress in improving the pace of U.S. refugee resettlement and calls on the…
Fact Sheet
Two Weeks of the Biden Border Proclamation and Asylum Shutdown
June 20, 2024
On June 4, 2024, the Biden administration issued a presidential proclamation and immediately implemented an asylum shutdown rule at the U.S.-Mexico border that adds to…
Press
United Nations Submits General Allegations to the United States for its Enforced Disappearances of Migrants
June 14, 2024
“I did not know if my daughters were alive or dead for almost a week” WASHINGTON – Seven immigrants’ rights organizations applaud the United Nations…
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Report to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances regarding disappearances of migrants and asylum seekers in the United States
June 7, 2024
Seven immigrants’ rights organizations—Al Otro Lado, Americans for Immigrant Justice, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP), Haitian Bridge Alliance, Human Rights First, the…
Fact Sheet
U.S. Asylum Bans Strand LGBTQI+ Refugees in Danger and Risk Return to Persecution
June 4, 2024
On May 11, 2023, the Biden administration initiated a new bar on asylum through its Circumvention of Lawful Pathways (CLP) rule. Often referred to as…
Press
Human Rights First Decries Biden Administration’s Border Proclamation
June 4, 2024
WASHINGTON – Today, the Biden Administration announced its issuance of a proclamation and joint Departments of Justice and Homeland Security interim final rule to bar…
Press, Statement
Punishing People Seeking Asylum Is Not a Solution
May 31, 2024
Human Rights First is alarmed at today’s announcement that DOJ and DHS are increasing resources to conduct more federal criminal prosecutions for immigration violations. Criminal…
Blog
Supporting clients who face mental health challenges
May 22, 2024
May’s month-long focus on mental health awareness offers an opportunity to explore the particularly acute mental health challenges facing people seeking asylum. Asylum seekers have…
Statement
Immigration Advocacy, Faith, Human and Civil Rights Organizations Oppose Further Senate Movement on Anti-Immigrant Legislation
May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024 The undersigned organizations strongly oppose reported plans by Leader Schumer and Senate leadership to bring the failed Lankford-Murphy immigration bill, any of…
Blog, Refugee Voice
Mother Mushroom: A Journey of Advocacy, Motherhood, and Asylum
May 12, 2024
By Camila Rice-Aguilar Human Rights First’s former client, Quynh Nguyen, tells her story of dissent, motherhood, and human rights advocacy in Vietnam, which eventually led…