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Nicole Narea, Vox, May 12, 2024 "For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the US’s broken immigration system are often overlooked...
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Aline Barros, VOA, May , 2024 "President Joe Biden on Thursday proposed a new regulation to expedite the asylum claims process for specific migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, but the plan drew...
"Less than three months after President Obama’s announcement, the Law School’s Pro Bono Program began a successful partnership with the Immigration Clinic, and held its first weekend clinic for Austin high school-aged DREAMers, to help them prepare their DACA applications. The support the project received, from a variety of sources, was unprecedented. “Our clinic has been involved in legal representation of DREAMers for many years, but DACA provides an unprecedented op-portunity to change to lives of many deserving students,” said [University of Texas Law School Immigration Clinic Professor Barbara] Hines." - UT Law Magazine, Dec. 2012.
Barbara Hines, Clinical Professor; Co-Director - Immigration Clinic
Denise L. Gilman, Clinical Professor, Co-Director - Immigration Clinic