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Underage Immigrants Traveling Alone to the U.S. Need Legal Support
Underage Immigrants Traveling Alone to the U.S. Need Legal Support—but federal funding cuts are making lawyers harder to get Tahirih Justice Center’s executive director Vanessa Wilkins stated That work, though, […]
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When Hope is Handcuffed: Why Crime Survivors are Watching Student Arrests with Fear
Director of Public Policy Casey Carter Swegman writes: “Because of what is happening today, survivors of violence will be even more afraid to ask for help. For them, life is […]
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Birthright Citizenship Is Under Attack This Mother’s Day
Litigation Counsel at Tahirih Justice Center, Kursten Phelps, writes “Imagine if your family’s future depended on a Supreme Court decision, and your right to live in the only country you’ve […]
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Fear of ICE Arrests Prevents Undocumented Mothers from Accessing Vital Care
Senior Managing Attorney at Tahirih Justice Center (TJC), Daniella Prieshoff, said that new federal policies are creating a culture of fear. “They tend to create a chilling effect on survivors […]
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Tahirih Justice Center to Governor Youngkin: Rescind Executive Order 47 to Protect Virginians
While it’s true that immigrants commit fewer crimes than people born in the United States, it’s also true that there is no “safe space” for people who commit crimes in […]
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Trump’s policies on gender identity and immigration have trans immigrants worried about their future
Casey Carter Swegman, director of public policy at Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit serving immigrants fleeing gender-based violence, said immigrants and transgender people are “highly targeted and vulnerable” individually, which […]
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Not a ‘Groom,’ but ‘Grooming’: It’s Past Time to End Child Marriage in the United States
Tahirih’s Director of Public Policy, Casey Carter Swegman, wrote an op-ed in Ms. Magazine in support of the Child Marriage Prevention Act, which would go a long way towards ending […]
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How Child Marriage Survivor Naila Amin Plans to End the Practice in the U.S.
At the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, survivor of child marriage and internationally-recognized expert on the issue Naila Amin advocates for a federal law, the Child Marriage Prevention Act, […]
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Child Marriage in Washington, D.C.
With 13 states having ended child marriage entirely, and every state from North Carolina to Maine taking action on the issue since 2016, D.C. must take urgent action to end child marriage.
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Historic Legislation Introduced to Prevent Child Marriage in the United States
Today marks a historic milestone in the fight against child marriage in the United States with the introduction of the Child Marriage Prevention Act of 2024. This groundbreaking federal legislation represents the first concerted effort by the United States Congress to condemn and prevent child marriage domestically.
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