Please join the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program for an event with Rebecca Sharpless ’94, author of the new book, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air. Shackled offers a rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States. In December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused 92 African refugees…
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HIRCP is hiring undergraduate and law school interns for summer 2024. For more information and instructions for applying, please view our internship call here.
Join us in welcoming back Andrew Leon Hanna (HLS alum, Forbes 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur, Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar) for a special lunchtime book talk. A Financial Times Best Book of the Year, 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge University Press) tells the story of three Syrian women entrepreneurs in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, and of the broader global…
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The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRCP) strongly opposes the Biden administration’s proposed rule announced February 21, 2023, which will impose a sweeping new ban on asylum for many people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. This rule violates U.S. laws and treaty obligations by returning asylum seekers to persecution or torture. Furthermore,…
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Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the Texas District Court’s ruling that the Department of Homeland Security violated the law when it established and implemented Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”). The verdict upheld a lower court order that declared a program shielding approximately 600,000 young immigrants from deportation unconstitutional.…
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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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On March 3rd and 5th from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., HIRC will be having a series of mock client interviews with law students. We are currently looking to recruit volunteers to act as interpreters and clients. This is a one-time volunteer event and would greatly help law students practice how to interview clients with an…
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On August 14, 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds, which would affect how immigration officials determine who was or could be considered a public charge. The “public charge” test is used to determine whether a person may receive a visa to enter the U.S. or adjust…
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HIRC is currently hiring a full-time Clinical Instructor. The Clinical Instructor will work with HIRC to supervise HLS clinical students on strategic litigation and policy advocacy to advance immigrants’ rights. The precise shape of the Clinical Instructor’s docket will be based on community priorities, student lawyering opportunities, and close consultation with community stakeholders and others.…
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“According to Phil Torrey, Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, the outcome of the Texas Attorney General race may have fatal consequences to the DACA suit since other states may not be willing to put forth the resources necessary to litigate.”