This post was written by HIRC summer intern Savannah Cornejo Garcia. Savannah is in her senior year studying Political Science and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently preparing to attend law school next year, she intends to pursue a joint JD-MSW degree. She hopes that her work as a lawyer will one…
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The Harvard Gazette speaks with Harvard staff and students who have benefited from the free immigration services provided by the Harvard Representation Initiative.
On August 8, our program submitted an amicus brief on behalf of legal service providers, law school clinics, and community organizations regarding the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). This inhumane policy forces asylum seekers to remain in Mexico as they wait to proceed with their asylum claims in the United States. Despite its name, the…
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Recently, our program, in partnership with the HLS Cyberlaw Clinic, submitted an amicus brief which addresses the constitutional implications of electronic device searches at the border.
This post was written by Crimmigration Clinic summer intern Megan Nally. She is a rising senior at Wesleyan University studying Government and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures with a certificate in International Relations On July 6, the Crimmigration Clinic submitted a brief of amicus curiae on behalf of leading constitutional and immigration law professors in support of…
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The Trump administration has proposed yet another new rule that will be detrimental to the asylum system if it goes into effect. In this rule, the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security declare that any individual coming from or passing through countries with COVID-19 cases will be barred from asylum and withholding of removal protection. …
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On August 3rd, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program joined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and the Justice Action Center in filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in order to obtain information on the federal government’s immigration enforcement against recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The lawsuit is…
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On July 22, a federal court in Canada ruled that the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) between Canada and the United States violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, the equivalent to the U.S. Bill of Rights in its constitution. Under this agreement, in effect since 2004, Canada has refused to consider refugee claims presented…
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Today, the Crimmigration Clinic filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court in a case that seeks to clarify the type of legal advice noncitizen-defendants must receive from their defense about the immigration consequences of a prospective guilty plea. The petition specifically asks the Court to review the case of…
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Yesterday, the Trump administration released a memo regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In the memo, Secretary Chad Wolf outlined the administration’s intention to deny all new DACA applications and advanced parole requests, and to grant DACA renewals for only a one-year period. We at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program…
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