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Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Jan. 31, 2023 "President Biden’s humanitarian parole program is a wonderful example of how executive action can reshape immigration policy in the face of Congressional inaction. It allows people fleeing troubled...

Cyrus D. Mehta & Manjeeta Chowdhary, Jan. 16, 2023 "Restive people at the U.S.- Mexico border for entry into the United States is not the new norm for the United States government. The usual procedure is to seek humanitarian relief through...

Margaret D. Stock, The Hill, Aug. 15, 2022 "In the months following Russia’s winter invasion of Ukraine, President Biden announced the U.S. would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians and established “Uniting for Ukraine,” a program...

Camilo Montoya, CBS News, June 20, 2022 "Since July 2021, USCIS has received over 46,000 applications from Afghans hoping to come to the U.S. through the parole process. But most parole applications from Afghans remain unresolved — and over...

ACLU Mass., May 2022 "In May 2022, the ACLU of Massachusetts, together with law firm Mintz, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Afghans facing danger at the hands of the reinstalled Taliban regime, and on behalf of New England-based loved ones attempting...

Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, Mar. 29, 2022 "Most Afghan evacuees fled with few, if any, belongings. Some were separated from immediate family members in the chaos. Many remain deeply traumatized. Then there is the larger, looming crisis...

IRAP, AIC, Mar. 15, 2022 " This Freedom of Information Ac t (FOIA) request seeks to uncover information about how the humanitarian parole process and refugee program is working with respect to Afghan nationals."

Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact, Jan. 7, 2022 "As the United States hastily withdrew its military presence from Afghanistan in August 2021, it began Operation Allies Welcome, a program designed to assist the tens of thousands of Afghans who successfully...

Diana Jones, Reuters, Sept. 16, 2021 "The International Academy of Trial Lawyers will sponsor a move to bring four Afghan attorneys and their families, who face danger from the Taliban due to their work, to the United States under a program that...

Penn State Law, PARS Equality Center, Khanbabai Immigration Law, Aug. 30, 2021 "Many Afghans are arriving in the United States through a legal mechanism called parole. This document describes the legal options and rights/responsibilities for Afghan...

DHS, Aug. 23, 2021 - Guidance for the Immigration Processing or Afghan Citizens During Operation Allies Refuge

DHS, Aug. 23, 2021 - Guidance for the Immigration Processing of Afghan Citizens During Operation Allies Refuge [I don't have a URL for the official PDF, but when I do, I will post.]

"A 9-year-old boy with a massive tumor was whisked from a dangerous neighborhood in Mexico in an armored vehicle by U.S. agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico, his family said. The boy and his parents were snatched Thursday...