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Daniel M. Kowalski
5 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
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Fast, Not Fair: How Expedited Processes Harm Immigrant Children Seeking Protection
Young Center, Feb. 2023 "Expedited processes prioritize speed over fairness in considering children’s asylum cases. They deny the reality of children’s distinct developmental stages; the impact of trauma on their ability to build their case; their...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Research: Immigration Judges Influenced by Politics
Daniel Braaten, Claire Nolasco Braaten, The Conversation, July 13, 2021 "The news over the past months has been saturated with stories about another “surge” of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border of the U.S. In March 2021,...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Experts to Explain Influx of Children at the Border
ABA, Apr. 1, 2021 "Five legal experts will explain the latest influx of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border in a webinar April 9 hosted by the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration . The free program, which...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Another Crack in CDC's Border Blockade?
Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News, Sept. 8, 2020 "The Trump administration is considering changing a pandemic-related border policy to no longer quickly return unaccompanied immigrant children to four countries that require them to test negative for...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Detained Children Must Have Adequate Food, Hygiene Items: Court
Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 15, 2019 "In a case that dramatized the plight of children detained at the border, a federal appeals court Thursday upheld an order requiring immigration authorities to provide minors with adequate food, water...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Lawsuit Against DHS Says New Asylum Policy Violates Child Immigrants' Rights
CLINIC, July 8, 2019 "Four young asylum seekers are suing the Department of Homeland Security saying that a new policy unlawfully limits their ability to seek asylum. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland, the asylum applicants...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Statement of ABA President Bob Carlson, Re: Improper Detention of Immigrant Children
ABA, May 31, 2019 "The American Bar Association is deeply disturbed by reports that hundreds of unaccompanied children seeking refuge in the United States are being held by the U.S. Border Patrol in violation of the law and federal policies. ...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Schrag: Proposed Flores Regulation is Legally Invalid
Today, Nov. 6, 2018, is the last day to file comments on the Flores NPRM filed by DHS and HHS. So far, over 57,000 comments have been filed. Prof. Philip G. Schrag , co-director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies, the asylum law clinic at Georgetown...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Use of Coercion by U.S. DHS Officials Against Parents Who Were Forcibly Separated From Their Children
American Immigration Council and AILA | August 23, 2018 - "This complaint contains 13 pseudonymized case examples and original testimony from parents who were separated from their children that show a pervasive, illegal practice by DHS officials...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Detaining Families: A Study of Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention
Ingrid Eagly, Esq., Steven Shafer, Esq. and Jana Whalley, Esq., American Immigration Council, August 16, 2018 - "The United States currently detains more protection-seeking families than any nation in the world. Since 2001, parents and their children...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Advocates: DOJ Claims in Child Migrant Case ‘Fantasy’
"The Obama Administration went into federal court in Seattle this month and made two arguments — sometimes contradictory — against a lawsuit challenging its decision to rush thousands of child migrants from Central America into deportation proceedings...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Life-Or-Death Struggle for Asylum in America
"While other kids enjoyed summer break, a teenager with more on her mind slipped into her only dressy jacket and traveled south to Anaheim, to a nondescript building housing the local office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Lithe and...
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