MOU would create an instant “chilling effect” on immigrant communities, jeopardizing not only the safety of battered immigrant women and girls, but public safety in general.

Imagine you fled the country you were born and raised in. Imagine you sold all your possessions so that your children could escape persecution. You just arrived in a new country to seek protection.

Nearly 400 distinguished guests and participants honored courageous women and girls seeking justice from gender-based violence.

She wisecracks like a sassy college kid and teases her lawyer like an older sister. She delivers speeches without notes and tosses off legal phrases without hesitation.

Tahirih Houston Executive Director Anne Chandler writes about her experience in Tijuana, volunteering to assist Central American migrants as they passed through to seek asylum in the U.S.