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Tahirih and Ayuda File Lawsuit Challenging Sweeping Anti-Asylum Regulations
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January 15th, 2021The 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 […]
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Tahirih Files Lawsuit Challenging Work Permit Bars for Asylum Seekers
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December 23rd, 2020The 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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Tahirih Condemns Final Transit Asylum Ban
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December 16th, 2020The administration published a final version of the transit asylum ban, after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision on June 30, 2020, forcing the […]
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Tahirih Condemns Final Regulations that Will End Asylum
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December 10th, 2020On Human Rights Day, the administration finalized regulations that will overturn U.S. asylum law—making it effectively impossible for people fleeing persecution to obtain protection in the United States. The rule […]
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New Proposed Rules to Limit Due Process for Immigrant Survivors
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November 25th, 2020The outgoing administration proposed two rules that would speed up the deportation machine that immigration courts have become, sending immigrant survivors of gender-based violence back into danger. The first rule […]
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Tahirih Statement on Incoming Biden-Harris Administration
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November 9th, 2020Over the past four years, policy after policy, fueled by racism and xenophobia, have chipped away at legal protections for immigrant survivors— building an invisible wall that has denied access and […]
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Tahirih Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision to Review ‘Remain in Mexico’
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October 19th, 2020On October 19, 2020, the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges against the administration’s policy ‘Remain in Mexico’, which has forced more than 60,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico […]