Category: CIR

The Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellowship 2014-2015

Applications are now being accepted for the Albert M. Sacks Fellowship at Harvard Law School. The fellowship will provide an opportunity for an attorney to work at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program on direct representation, appellate litigation and policy advocacy work, starting in the summer of 2014. The Fellow will supervise clinical students…
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Part III of CIR Blog Series: Border Security “Triggers”

This is the third and last part of our blog series on comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). The first part of the series highlighted some changes to the asylum process set forth in the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S.744),which passed in the Senate by a vote of 68-32 last Thursday.…
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Part II of CIR Blog Series: Pathways to Citizenship

This is the second part of a blog series on comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). The first part of the series highlighted some changes to the asylum process brought forth by the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S.744), which has just been passed in the Senate by a vote of 68-32.…
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Part I of CIR Blog Series: How S.744 Affects the Asylum Process

   Photo courtesy of yashmori, from Flickr Creative Commons The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S.744), currently being debated in the Senate, would establish pathways to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, vastly strengthen border security and enforcement, and expand nonimmigrant visa programs for both skilled and unskilled workers. The…
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