Please join us for two upcoming events! Book Talk with Ilya Somin Thursday, February 4th 12:00PM – 1:00PM EST The Harvard Crimmigration Clinic will be hosting an event with Professor Ilya Somin. Professor Somin will be speaking about his new book, Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. In his book, he makes the…
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ATLANTA —The final known survivor of alleged gynecological abuse at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) secured her freedom Friday afternoon, January 22, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Clinical Instructor Sameer Ahmed spoke with the Harvard Gazette about his hopes for the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
This article features interviews with local immigration attorneys, including Staff Attorney Mariam Liberles, on Biden’s first actions on immigration.
“‘There needs to be a path to citizenship for so many people, including DACA recipients, TPS holders, and undocumented people here in the U.S.,’ [Ardalan] said. ‘We need to rethink our immigration system.’”
Mariam Liberles is a staff attorney at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, working with the Harvard Representation Initiative (HRI) team. For Mariam, immigration is a deeply personal issue. She was born in Yerevan, Armenia and came to the United States with her family when she was nine years old, leaving just before the collapse of the Soviet…
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“‘This is the most far-reaching of the midnight asylum regulations unveiled in the Trump administration’s final days,’ said Sabrineh Ardalan, the director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical program, one of the groups challenging the policy.”
San Francisco, California (January 8, 2021) – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction blocking a sweeping Trump administration rule that would gut protections for people fleeing persecution and torture. The injunction halts the new rule’s implementation nationwide ahead of its scheduled effective date of Monday, January 11,…
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Do you speak Russian? Would you like to get involved with our Program? Sign up to be a volunteer interpreter! We are urgently seeking Russian-speaking volunteers to assist with remote client meetings. To get involved, please sign up in our Language Access Program database: https://hls-lap.herokuapp.com/login. Once you have signed up in our database, one of…
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en español abajo Four immigrant rights organizations – Pangea Legal Services, Dolores Street Community Services, Inc., Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), and Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition – have requested a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit challenging a sweeping new rule that will eviscerate access to protection for people seeking refuge in the United States.…
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