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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]