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R. Kelly’s Trial Speaks to Flawed Child Marriage Laws in the U.S.
Tahirih’s Force Marriage Initiative team wrote an op-ed published in Teen Vogue that explains how R&B star Aaliyah was able to be married to R. Kelly when she was just 15 years old.
Read the full article here.
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‘Child Marriage Doesn’t Discriminate’: Here’s What You Need to Know About North Carolina’s New Law
Emiene Wright, associate editor for Caroline and Pine, explains the impact of North Carolina’s recent child marriage bill that will soon go into effect. Casey Carter Swegman, Tahirih’s Force Marriage Initiative Project Manager, weighs in on how this law is a step into the right direction but there’s a lot more work to be done.
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Tahirih Statement on DHS New Priorities Enforcement
The Department of Homeland Security issued broad new directives to immigration officers that will go into effect on November 29, 2021. Although these new enforcement and deportation guidelines clarify that not everyone who is an undocumented immigrant should, or can, be removed from the United States, the memo gives worryingly broad discretion to individual ICE and CBP agents to carry out the enforcement priorities and risks the removal of survivors of gender-based violence.
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Tahirih Statement on Treatment of Haitians at the Border
The Tahirih Justice Center strongly condemns the administration’s racist and brutal mistreatment of Haitian refugees at the U.S. southern border.
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Tahirih’s Afghan Asylum Project
Support Afghan refugees seeking safety in the U.S.
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An analysis of the Biden Administration’s new proposed asylum rules
While the proposal has some positive impacts on immigrant survivors of gender-based violence, some aspects of the proposed rule will also be harmful.
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Forced Marriage Affects All of Us
As advocates working to end forced marriage in the United States, we are very familiar with the many misconceptions about the issue. Even among other anti-violence advocates, forced marriage remains under-recognized and poorly understood.
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Letter of Solidarity from the Immigrant Justice Movement
The Tahirih Justice Center joined more than 400 immigrant justice organizations and ally groups to express our solidarity with Black communities. Read the full text of the letter below: […]
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Tahirih Files Lawsuit Challenging the Use of CBP to Conduct Credible Fear Interviews
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | March 30, 2020 Today, the Tahirih Justice Center filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the use of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to screen […]
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Analysis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Immigrant Survivors
This brief analysis examines the gaps in the immigration, health care, and public benefits systems that make immigrant survivors especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic.