For more than a year, the U.S. government has misused public health authority to expel and block families, adults, and children seeking refuge at the southern border.
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Factsheet | July 27, 2021
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As the world marks the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention on July 28, 2021, the United States continues to flout its legal obligations under the Convention, endangering lives, failing to...
Letter | July 21, 2021
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Dear Secretary Mayorkas:
We, the undersigned organizations and legal clinics, write to urge the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to ensure that people seeking protection in the United...
Report | July 15, 2021
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Early hopes that the Biden administration would break from a decades-long U.S. practice of enabling Egyptian dictatorships are fading, with potentially catastrophic consequences for human rights....
Factsheet | July 14, 2021
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Jailing people seeking asylum protection in U.S. immigration detention centers is a cruel and costly mistake.
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Detention inflicts enormous physical and psychological harm,...
Letter | July 13, 2021
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Dear Secretary Mayorkas,
We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stop targeting asylum seekers...
Letter | July 09, 2021
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Dear Secretary Mayorkas, Secretary Blinken, and Attorney General Garland:
The undersigned organizations urge this administration to take prompt and concrete action to address the harm caused by...
Report | July 08, 2021
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In late June 2021, during a visit to El Paso, Vice President Kamala Harris affirmed that the Biden administration is “committed to ensuring that our immigration system is orderly and humane.” ...
Amicus Brief | July 06, 2021
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Human Rights First, alongside Reprieve US and the law firm of Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC, filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the petitioner in Abdulsalam Ali...
