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Advocates want an eviction grace period. Houston’s mayor won’t put it on the council agenda
Guadalupe Fernandez, Tahirih Policy and Advocacy Manager in Houston, spoke to the Houston Chronicle on how the eviction crisis has impacted immigrant survivors and the urgent need for a grace […]
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Stand with Survivors to Save Asylum
In this op-ed, Morgan Weibel, Executive Director of Tahirih SF Bay Area, writes about the most recent proposed regulations that would decimate the asylum system and eliminate gender-based asylum. Weibel […]
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Federal court strikes down Trump’s ‘third country’ asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border
Judge Kelly overturned the administration’s transit asylum ban, striking yet another legal blow to the administration’s restrictive immigration policies. Tahirih was part of the lawsuit challenging this illegal policy and […]
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Judge deals setback to key Trump policy limiting asylum
This article highlights the victory in Tahirih’s lawsuit challenging the transit asylum ban, which barred anyone approaching the U.S. southern border from applying for asylum, with limited exceptions. The lawsuit […]
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Undocumented Survivors Have Long Lived in Limbo. COVID-19 Is Making It Worse
Isabela Dias of Truthout reported on the significant delays that immigrant survivors face on pending cases for legal relief. Julie Carpenter, Tahirih Senior Litigation Counsel, spoke to Dias about Tahirih’s […]
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Stand with Survivors
Asylum is under attack and we must act now to save gender-based asylum. Take action today.
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Trump’s New Asylum Policy Doesn’t Help Our System
Archi Pyati, Tahirih Chief of Policy and Communications, writes a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal on the new asylum regulations proposed by the administration.
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If Americans believe in freedom from lockdown, they should start here
This opinion piece from CNN covers the story of Tahirih Atlanta client Danilo, an asylum seeker who was detained by ICE for over a year and separated from his husband […]
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La nueva regla de asilo propuesta por el gobierno acelerará juicios y reducirá el poder de los jueces
Univision cita a Archi Pyati (Jefe de Política y Comunicaciones) y a Richard Caldarone (Abogado), ambxs de Tahirih, sobre las regulaciones propuestas que dejarían de funcionar en el sistema de asilo de EE. UU. si se implementaran.
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What will Trump’s immigration ban mean for the Bay Area?
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the impact of the administration’s executive order to suspend some immigration on immigrant survivors. The article quotes Morgan Weibel, Executive Director of Tahirih SF […]