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Posts tagged Tahirih Updates
  • Breaking Down the News: How the January 20 Executive Orders Impact Immigrant Survivors

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    July 28th, 2025

    This analysis focuses on the impact the January 20 executive orders are likely to have on the ability of immigrant women, girls, and other survivors of gender-based violence to access safety and the legal status to which they are entitled under law.

  • Fall 2023 Legislative Explainer: Texas Legislature Passes Harmful Anti-Immigrant Legislation

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    July 22nd, 2025

    In recent years, the Texas Legislature has focused increasingly on immigration enforcement at the border and across the state. Texas’s Operation Lone Star (OLS) launched in 2021 and has deployed thousands of law enforcement personnel to the border, making use of state laws, such as trespassing and smuggling, to engage in immigration enforcement. OLS has radically shifted the way that state and local laws are applied to immigrants and border communities, has resulted in racial profiling, and has led to the deaths of dozens of people through high-speed chases and dangerous border barrier infrastructure. During the 3rd and 4th Special Sessions of the 2023 Legislative Session, the Legislature responded to the Governor’s call to expand Operation Lone Star and passed 3 anti-immigrant bills that will have a disproportionate impact on BIPOC immigrant survivors of gender-based violence.

  • Tahirih in the States: Texas Legislative Session Update

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    July 21st, 2025

    The 2025 Texas legislative regular session saw the passage of both promising and harmful bills impacting immigrants and survivors. On the positive side, lawmakers approved several measures that strengthen crime […]

  • Justice Department Launches Attack on Refugee Women

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    July 18th, 2025

    Today, the Justice Department issued a precedential decision that attempts to turn back the clock on progress made in recognizing women’s rights as human rights. In Matter of K-E-S-G-, the […]

  • Missouri Bans Child Marriage

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    July 9th, 2025

    JEFFERSON CITY – Incredibly, in 2025, child marriage is still legal in most of the United States. But now the practice is banned across Missouri — making the Show Me […]

  • Response to “She called 911 to report domestic abuse. Then Houston police called ICE on her,” published June 24, 2025.

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    July 8th, 2025

    When survivors dial 911, they hope law enforcement will stop the immediate danger, not treat them as criminals. That’s why the story “She called 911 to report domestic abuse. Then […]

  • Breaking Down the News: Supreme Court Allows DHS to Deport People to Countries They Are Not From

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    July 6th, 2025

    On June 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision in the case DHS v. DVD. The ruling allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to start deporting people […]