Reflections on Participation in HIRC
HIRC student Asseret Frausto shares her thoughts on her experience at the Clinic.
Recent case victories from HIRC at GBLS
Since the beginning, HIRC has partnered with Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), the largest provider of free legal services in Massachusetts. GBLS is also the site of the HIRC at GBLS side of the Clinic. Here are just a few of the many victories won by HIRC at GBLS over the past year: HIRC at…
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Crimmigration Clinic wins BIA case
This week, the Crimmigration Clinic won a case before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) on behalf of a lawful permanent resident that immigration officials were trying to deport. The client, who has lived in the United States for nearly 30 years, will now be released from detention where he has been held for more…
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Student reflections from the border
In August, HLS students Alessandra De La Tejera ’20, Josephine Herman ’20, Evan Hindman ’19, and Andrew Patterson ’20, and HIRC attorneys Sabi Ardalan and Cindy Zapata spent a week in Texas volunteering with RAICES, an organization that offers free and low-cost immigration legal services in Central and South Texas. They worked at the Karnes…
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HIRC assists nearly 100 Harvard community members with TPS
HIRC handles dozens of immigration cases a day, helping clients from all over the world acquire immigration status in the United States. Clinical law students and their attorney supervisors focus on assisting individuals applying for different forms of humanitarian protection and are highly adaptable and attuned to the needs of the local community. As a…
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Crimmigration Clinic Wins Case at the Board of Immigration Appeals
Working under the direction of HIRC’s Managing Attorney Phil Torrey, Crimmigration Clinic students Clarissa Lehne ’18 and Mike Ewart ’18 successfully argued before the Board of Immigration Appeals that their client’s conviction should not result in his detention and deportation. “It was incredibly rewarding to see a tangible result of the work that we put…
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HIRC files amicus briefs on travel ban 3.0
Last week, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program filed two amicus briefs in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits to challenge President Trump’s most recent iteration of the travel ban. The briefs were written in collaboration with Fatma Marouf (HLS ’02), Professor of Law and Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University…
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Support for the Harvard Community in the wake of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sweeps
As you may have heard, there have been nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids targeting people living in areas that have designated themselves as ‘sanctuary cities.’ The sweeps have resulted in several hundred arrests across the country, and it is believed that approximately 50 people were arrested in Massachusetts. We have information that one…
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President Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Continues to Exceed His Authority under the INA
On September 24, President Trump issued a new proclamation restricting travel to the United States from eight countries— Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad, Venezuela, and North Korea. On Monday, the Supreme Court cancelled oral arguments scheduled for October 10 on the consolidated cases related to the previous iteration of Trump’s travel ban and will…
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Guidance to undocumented/DACAmented members of the Harvard University community
August 31, 2017 University President Drew Faust recently sent a letter to President Trump urging him to continue the DACA Program and to vigorously defend it in federal courts. In her letter President Faust writes: “At Harvard and other institutions of higher education across the country, DACA has made it possible for talented and motivated…
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