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The Tahirih Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging the outgoing administration’s wide-ranging regulations to change procedures in immigration court, which make it even more difficult for immigrant survivors of violence to seek protection in the United States.
The Tahirih Justice Center and Ayuda filed a lawsuit challenging the outgoing administration’s sweeping regulations that would overturn U.S. asylum law. Finalized in December 2020, the rule would make it effectively impossible for people fleeing persecution to obtain protection in the United States, gutting years of progress to create bridges to safety.
On January 14, 2021, the Acting Attorney General issued a new opinion on Matter of A-B-, yet again cruelly attacking immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence seeking asylum. The policies of the outgoing administration have continued to specifically target survivors of gender-based violence— first through Matter of A-B- and then through sweeping anti-asylum regulations that would eliminate the right to seek asylum on account of persecution due to one’s gender.
Tahirih Justice Center and Ayuda filed a lawsuit challenging the outgoing administration’s sweeping regulations that will overturn U.S. asylum law.
Tahirih submitted comments to the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) in response to the proposed rule on Motions to Reopen and Reconsider, Effect of Departure, and Stay of Removal published on November 27, 2020.
Tahirih submitted comments to the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) in response to the proposed rule on Good Cause for a Continuance in Immigration Proceedings published on November 27, 2020.
The Tahirih Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging two Department of Homeland Security rules that will deny people seeking asylum access to a work permit.
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