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Daniel M. Kowalski
4 hours ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
“We Couldn’t Wait” - Digital Metering at the US-Mexico Border
HRW, May 1, 2024 "The administrations of US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are forcing thousands of people seeking asylum in the US to wait for months in Mexico, exposing them to danger, Human...
Daniel M. Kowalski
16 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Can President Biden Really Shut Down Asylum at the Border? A Q&A with Immigration Expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Apr. 16, 2024 "Spoiler alert: No, he can't. But he'll probably issue an executive order anyway. The Border Chronicle spoke with immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
29 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Law School Clinic Rescues Haitian Client
Miami Law Staff, Apr. 2, 2024 "The University of Miami School of Law Immigration Clinic halted the deportation of a Haitian woman by demonstrating to an immigration judge the substantial risk of torture she faces upon return to Haiti. Amelia...
Daniel M. Kowalski
1 month ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Touro Law Immigration Clinic Victory!
Touro Law, March 2024 "PHOTO CAPTION: Touro Law students Pierre Piazza (left) and Laraib Sarwar (right) pose with their client in the Immigration Rights Advocacy Clinic at Touro Law Center. Touro Law’s Immigration Clinic Secures Hard...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Nicaraguan Journalist Avoids Deportation from the USA
Elmer Rivas, Confidencial, Feb. 25, 2024 "Journalist Joselin Montes, originally from Chinandega, was released on Friday, February 23 in the United States after an immigration judge rejected the authorities’ request to deport her and send...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Migrant "Crisis" Is About Work Permits And Planning
Jerusalem Demsas, The Atlantic, Feb. 19, 2024 [free gift link!] "Sometimes the best way to understand why something is going wrong is to look at what’s going right. The asylum seekers from the border aren’t the only outsiders in town...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Outmatched: The U.S. Asylum System Faces Record Demands
Kathleen Bush-Joseph, MPI, Feb. 2024 "Known for its long tradition of providing refuge, the U.S. humanitarian protection system is under significant strain at a time of mass displacements globally, a backlog of 2 million asylum applications, and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: "Closing" the Border Would Violate Asylum Law
Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Feb. 2, 2024 "President Joe Biden says he has done everything under his authority to try to reduce illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, and that he’ll be able to do more once Congress passes a...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Lack of Work Permits, Legal Avenues Stymie Migrants
Carine Hajjar, Boston Globe, Jan. 26, 2024 "[C]urrent policies at the border funnel migrants into a system where their long-term legal claim to "the American dream" is uncertain, and for many, unlikely. ... In the end, many migrants "will...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
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602 Days Later...
Mona Iman, Robyn Barnard, Shala Gafary, Human Rights First, Dec. 22, 2023 "Mohammad is an Afghan citizen of the Hazara ethnic minority and Shi’a religion, who fled Afghanistan after repeated threats to his life following the Taliban’s...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Asylum Does Not Apply At Sea
Seth Freed Wessler, New York Times, Dec. 6, 2023 "People intercepted at sea, even in U.S. waters, have fewer rights than those who come by land. “Asylum does not apply at sea,” a Coast Guard spokesman told me. Even people who are fleeing...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ABA Opposes Funding Proposals That Restrict Asylum, Parole
ABA, Dec. 4, 2023 "American Bar Association President Mary Smith wrote to the U.S. Senate to urge senators to continue working towards bipartisan solutions to the difficult challenges presented at the U.S. southern border. However, the ABA would...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
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Braving La Bestia
Jordan Vonderhaar, Texas Observer, Nov. 21, 2023 "Forty miles south of Ciudad Juárez, protected from the glaring desert sun by a blanket tied to a ladder, a mother nurses her nine-month-old son as the sun rises on their fifth day aboard...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Experts: New Conditions Challenge Old Asylum Law
Miriam Jordan, New York Times, Nov. 28, 2023 "The story of the Miskito who have left their ancestral home to come 2,500 miles to the U.S.-Mexico border is in many ways familiar. Like others coming from Central and South America, they are fleeing...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Credible Fear Interview Outcomes Improve With Assistance: Report
Susan Dunlap, NM Political Report, Nov. 7, 2023 "An immigrant advocacy center found that when their staff were able to provide legal representation or help to immigrants facing credible fear interviews, the immigrant outcomes improved considerably...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Asylum Seekers Face Multiple Challenges
Ethan Stark-Miller, AM New York, Nov. 5, 2023 "A migrant’s current legal status in large part depends on how the individual entered the country. According to immigration lawyer Stephen Yale-Loehr , there are several ways that new arrivals...
Daniel M. Kowalski
6 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Reforming Asylum for the 21st Century: A Podcast with Immigration Expert Muzzafar Chishti
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Oct. 31, 2023 "Muzzafar Chishti, a lawyer, is a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and director of MPI’s office at New York University School of Law. He specializes...
Daniel M. Kowalski
6 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Fiefdom on Long Island
Safe Harbor Clinic, Brooklyn Law School "The New York Asylum Office is one of 11 asylum offices around the country. Year after year, the New York Asylum Office grants asylum at one of the lowest, if not the lowest rates in the country, significantly...
Daniel M. Kowalski
6 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Recommendations for Upholding and Upgrading Asylum
Human Rights First, October 2023 "Nearly three years after President Biden took office, his administration should double down on effective and humane strategies that are essential to adherence to refugee law and an orderly approach to managing...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: No Quick Fix for Border, Asylum Problems
Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Sept. 15, 2023 "Cities across the U.S., such as Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, have received thousands of migrants in the past year. Those places’ leaders say feeding and providing shelter to...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Asylum Seekers Encounter a New Digital Border: Their Smartphones
Austin Kocher, Ph.D., Sept. 13, 2023 "Migrants around the world who are seeking asylum in North America and Europe are finding pathways to safety increasingly blocked—not only by physical borders but also by digital borders . The most recent...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
BIA Grants Asylum to Mexican Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto
It took only fifteen years, but on Sept. 5, 2023 the BIA granted asylum to Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto. Reporting by Uriel J. García here . Media release by the National Press Club here . Hats off to attorney Eduardo Beckett...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Courts "Very Likely" to Strike Down State Work Permits for Migrants
Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, Sept. 12, 2023 "Frustrated by the federal response to the migrant crisis, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday that New York State was considering ways to issue work permits to asylum seekers in a...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Afghan Soldier Abdul Wasi Safi, Once Detained at Gorder, Granted Asylum
Allison P. Erikson, Military Times, Sept. 12, 2023 "Nearly a year after former Afghan intelligence officer Abdul Wasi Safi was detained at the border between the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, the Justice Department has granted him asylum to live with...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Bogus "Red Notice" Keeps Asylee in ICE Prison for Six Years
Interpol permanently deleted the bogus Red Notice. An Immigration Judge granted her asylum...twice. ICE still has her locked up. The habeas petition is here . The ACLU media release is here . Wesley Muller's Louisiana Illuminator article is here...
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