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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

NEW: SCOTUS just granted the Trump admin’s request to review a 9th Circuit decision in our case challenging the government’s prior asylum turnback policy: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/news/scot... @alotrolado-org.bsky.social @immcouncil.org @democracyforward.org @ccrjustice.org @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social

Black and white photo of child at border fence. Text reads, "SCOTUS Grants Review of Ninth Circuit Decision Holding Turnbacks of Asylum Seekers Unlawful"

Quote reads: "The issue before the Court is whether noncitizens seeking safety at ports of entry along the U.S. southern border have a legal right to apply for asylum in the United States. As the Ninth Circuit correctly concluded, our immigration laws require the government to inspect and process people seeking asylum at ports of entry and allow them to pursue their legal claims in the United States. The government’s turnback policy was an illegal scheme to circumvent these requirements by physically blocking asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry and preventing them from crossing the border to seek protection. Vulnerable families, children, and adults fleeing persecution were stranded in perilous conditions where they faced violent assault, kidnapping, and death. We look forward to presenting our case to the Court.”

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

BREAKING: Last night AG Bondi reinstated regressive rulings from the first Trump admin in an attempt to end asylum for women and families seeking refuge. “This is a brazen power grab by Trump’s Justice Department," CGRS Director @karenmusalo.bsky.social says: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/news/trum...

Photo of family at border wall; overlay text reads: "Trump Slams the Door on Women and Families"

Quote from CGRS Director Karen Musalo reads: "“This is a brazen power grab by Trump’s Justice Department - an attempt to rewrite our laws to deny protection to women and families escaping deadly violence. Bondi’s decision in S-S-F-M- attempts to turn back the clock on decades of hard-fought progress to recognize domestic and other forms of gendered violence as violations of women’s human rights. Her ruling in R-E-R-M- & J-D-R-M- is a calculated strategy to end asylum for families who deserve protection. We will continue to fight for a fair and just interpretation of our refugee law, in compliance with our international legal obligations, and will see the administration back in court.”

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Trump admin's recent asylum ruling is part of a broader assault on women’s rights and immigrant rights, our director @karenmusalo.bsky.social writes for @latimes.com. The decision will make it far more difficult for refugee women and girls to find safety. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Screenshot of LA Times headline of op-ed by Karen Musalo reads, "Under Trump, U.S. returns to treating violence against women as a "private matter," paired with photo of woman holding sign with illustration of woman walking along road to a entry titled "asilo USA" with butterfly; text reads "El asilo es una esperanza no cierres tu corazon!!"

Screenshot of excerpt from LA Times op-ed reads: "The U.S. has been waffling for decades over whether women have a right to refugee protection when fleeing gender-based violence. Under different administrations, the Department of Justice has established and reversed precedents, issued and repealed rulings. But the latest flip-flop by the Trump administration is not just another toggle between rules. In July, the Trump administration’s high court of immigration, the Board of Immigration Appeals, issued a deeply troubling decision. The ruling held that a “particular social group” — one of the five grounds for refugee protection — cannot be defined by gender, or by gender combined with nationality. The ruling, in a case known as Matter of K-E-S-G-, is binding on all adjudicators across the country. The legal reasoning is both unpersuasive and alarming. It seeks to return refugee law to an era when violence against women was dismissed as a private matter, not of concern to governments or human rights institutions. It is part of a broader, ongoing assault by the Trump administration on women’s rights and immigrant rights — in this case, attempting to turn back history to 1992."

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Join us on Wednesday for this critical and urgent conversation with @cristosal.bsky.social on challenges to human rights and democracy in El Salvador. 🇸🇻👇

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

BREAKING: Today the Justice Department issued a decision declaring that refugees fleeing gender-based violence may no longer qualify for asylum. Its clear intent is to give judges a basis to reject women’s cases without considering them fairly. Our statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/trump-l...

Photo of mother and child holding sign that reads, "Ya Basta de Deportaciones." Overlay text reads, "Justice Department Launches Attack on Refugee Women"

Quote from CGRS Legal Director Blaine Bookey reads, "With the stroke of a pen, the administration is attempting to erase decades of progress and drag us back to an era where the persecution of women and girls was seen as inevitable and irrelevant to our refugee protection system. But Trump’s Justice Department cannot distort the law to achieve its political ends. We will continue to fight for our client and for all women and girls who turn to the United States for refuge, who have a legal right to seek asylum and have their claims considered fairly under our laws."

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

📢 New: Our latest analysis unpacks the Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on the climate emergency. It highlights key takeaways on cross-border displacement and State obligations. 🌎 🔍 A must-read for advocates, scholars, and policymakers. 📄 Read here: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/pub...

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The IACtHR’s Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: An Important Step for the Protection of Climate-Displaced Individuals | Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

BREAKING: Today a federal court struck down the Trump admin's shutdown of asylum at the southern border. Statement w/@aclu.org @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @txcivilrights.bsky.social @raicestexas.bsky.social @lasamericasiac.bsky.social @florenceproject.bsky.social: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/federal...

Photo of demonstrator holding sign that says, "Asilo Ya." Overlay text reads, "Court Strikes Down Trump Shutdown of Asylum at the Border"

Quote from CGRS Senior Staff Attorney Edith Sangüeza reads, "Under our laws, any person seeking safety at our southern border has a legal right to apply for asylum. The government cannot wield racist, baseless claims of an ‘invasion’ to demonize refugees and unilaterally strip them of that right. For over six months, the illegal border proclamation has wrought nothing but suffering and chaos, forcing people fleeing persecution back to peril and leaving others stuck in detention, struggling to navigate a made-up process. The administration should now comply with the court’s order and immediately reinstate a fair asylum process at the southern border."

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Today the Trump admin terminated #TPS for Haiti 🇭🇹 - putting half a million people at risk of deportation to a country mired in deadly violence. The decision "amounts to a death sentence for many of our Haitian neighbors,” our Legal Director Blaine Bookey says: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/cgrs-de...

Photo of women waving Haitian flags. Overlay text reads, "CGRS Decries Termination of TPS for Haiti"

Quote from CGRS Legal Director Blaine Bookey reads, "In its announcement, DHS absurdly declares that the ‘situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home.’ Having worked with partners on the ground in Haiti for the last 20 years, I can say with certainty this is a bald-faced lie. If deported, many Haitians currently residing in the United States will have no home to which they can return at all. Mass deportations will only create more instability in Haiti, exacerbating the country’s mounting displacement crisis and undermining the efforts of partners working to restore peace, at grave risk to their own safety. And those sent back will be particularly vulnerable to harm, in a country where deportees are routinely preyed upon by gangs and threatened by the authorities. The decision to terminate TPS for Haiti was clearly motivated not by reality, but by the deep-seated anti-Black racism that the president and his allies have for years wielded in despicable attacks on Haitian immigrants and refugees."

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This #FathersDay, the families of those disappeared to El Salvador’s CECOT prison are missing their dads, sons, and partners, unsure if they will see them again. #FamiliesBelongTogether and free. Take action with @nilc.org to demand their safe return: bit.ly/cecotaction #BringThemBack

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🚨TRIGGER WARNING🚨 Our clients were reporting for a routine ISAP appt, following govt protocol. But when they arrived, father was taken away from his daughter and wife. Today, the daughter is still in pain as the rest of the country prepares to celebrate Father’s Day. t.co/iONtuwbUZg

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 12/06/2025

This is absolutely outrageous. This is a US Senator — full stop. To treat him like this is beyond the pale and the mark of an authoritarian regime. If they can do this to a sitting Senator, just think about what they can do to you. Absolutely no one should be treated this way.

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“Sen. Padilla @padilla.senate.gov attended a public press conference seeking answers on behalf of the millions of Californians he represents," CGRS Director @karenmusalo.bsky.social said today. "The Trump admin used violent force to silence him." Our response: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/cgrs-co...

Quote from CGRS Director Karen Musalo reads: "Today’s assault on Senator Padilla is totally unacceptable. Senator Padilla attended a public press conference seeking answers on behalf of the millions of Californians he represents, including constituents who have been grievously harmed in the administration’s escalating attacks on immigrant communities and protestors exercising their First Amendment rights. Rather than answer the senator’s questions, the Trump administration used violent force to silence him. The treatment of Senator Padilla is consistent with this administration’s pattern of using force and intimidation against elected officials and judges exercising their responsibilities under the Constitution. We urge every member of Congress and elected officials at all levels of government to condemn this shocking assault on Senator Padilla.”

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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 12/06/2025

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's unlawful asylum shutdown policy, with partners at @alotrolado-org.bsky.social, @haitianbridge.bsky.social, @immcouncil.org, @democracyforward.org, and @ccrjustice.org. Our joint statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/asylum-...

Image of border fence. Overlay text reads, "Asylum Seekers Challenge Trump's Asylum Shutdown Policy." Includes logos for Al Otro Lado, Haitian Bridge Alliance, CGRS, American Immigration Council, Democracy Forward, Center for Constitutional Rights

Quote from CGRS Litigation Director Melissa Crow reads, "The asylum shutdown policy imperils the lives of people seeking safety at the southern border and flouts our immigration laws. Under the shutdown policy, families, children, and adults fleeing persecution have been left stranded in Mexico, where they risk grave harm, with no legal recourse. Our plaintiffs include asylum seekers who, while awaiting a chance to request asylum at ports of entry, have been kidnapped, tortured, and threatened by cartels that prey on migrants. The court must step in to vacate the shutdown policy and restore access to a fair asylum process at the U.S.-Mexico border."

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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

NEW: Frizgeralth de Jesús Cornejo Pulgar was among the 238 Venezuelans removed to El Salvador without due process in mid-March. He has no criminal history or a final order of deportation. On Friday, a US immigration judge terminated his asylum case, effectively ejecting him from the legal system.

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Trump disappeared them to El Salvador. Now, they're being erased by immigration courts.

At least 14 cases of Venezuelans sent to a Salvadoran mega prison have been dismissed by US immigration judges.

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Trump administration's proposals to send migrants from the U.S. to Libya, Rwanda, and other third countries "make a mockery of the post-World War II refugee protection framework," CGRS Director @karenmusalo.bsky.social writes in @latimes.com. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... @uclawsf.bsky.social

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Contributor: The U.S. failed refugees during the Holocaust. Trump's Libya plan would too

The administration has proposed sending asylum seekers to Libya and Rwanda, both notoriously unsafe for refugees.

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We’ve launched a new community resources page for our immigrant community and families facing deportation or increased ICE activity. Get trusted, up-to-date info to protect yourself and your loved ones. 📲 Visit www.ImmDef.org/resources youtube.com/shorts/_T5Tu...

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New Community Resource Page!

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This week CGRS, with @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social and other partners, filed a request with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, seeking emergency precautionary measures to halt enforced disappearances to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Learn more: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/groups-...

Photo of protest against disappearances to El Salvador.

Overlay text reads: "BREAKING: IN AN EMERGENCY FILING AGAINST EL SALVADOR, WE ARE SEEKING RELEASE FROM INCOMMUNICADO DETENTION OF PEOPLE FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED FROM THE U.S."

Quote from CGRS Staff Attorney Julie Bourdoiseau reads: "Those disappeared to CECOT have been ripped from their homes and families, imprisoned in deplorable conditions, with no due process and no recourse. These include people who came to the United States seeking refuge from persecution and state repression, only to suffer further abuses at the hands of the Trump and Bukele administrations. Our governments must not be allowed to operate above the law. This illegal scheme must end."

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Make the Road States @mtrstates.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

After hours of detainment, Newark Mayor Baraka has been released. This arrest is shameful. @maketheroadnj.bsky.social has been at Delaney Hall demanding accountability since day one and we will continue to fight back against any attempts to make New Jersey a mass deportation zone.

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

⚖️Victory! Today a federal court struck down key parts of a Biden admin rule severely restricting asylum. We're proud to represent @lasamericasiac.bsky.social @raicestexas.bsky.social w/co-counsel @aclu.org @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @txcivilrights.bsky.social. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/distric...

Photo of family at border fence. Overlay text reads, "Court Strikes Down Biden-Era Asylum Restrictions"

Quote from Melissa Crow, CGRS Director of Litigation, reads: "Today's decision recognizes the Biden-era border rule was yet another unlawful attempt to deprive people fleeing persecution of eligibility for asylum. As evidenced by our plaintiffs' experiences, the rule emboldened border officers to ignore explicit expressions of fear and to intimidate or mislead asylum seekers into giving up their claims for protection. Many people seeking safety were summarily deported to danger, and family members were separated despite having identical claims. This decision affirms that no president can rewrite our asylum laws by executive fiat."

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welcomewdignity.bsky.social @welcomewdignity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“The US should not be in the business of disappearing anyone to torture." Yesterday, members of #WelcomeWithDignity, advocates, & attorneys from @fwd.us, @immcouncil.org, @cristosal.bsky.social & more, held a press call to discuss the Trump admin’s forced disappearances to El Salvador. Learn more ⬇️

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Attorneys & Advocates Discuss the Harms of Trump Administration’s Forced Disappearances to El Salvador – Welcome With Dignity

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/04/2025

With Trump defying the Supreme Court to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia (along with hundreds of others) imprisoned in El Salvador, we find ourselves in a moral and constitutional crisis. Calls and emails to Congress aren’t sufficient to end these crises, but they are necessary.

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We’re in a constitutional crisis

We are in the midst of a full-blown constitutional crisis.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

We are in a constitutional crisis. I’m in El Salvador to shine a light on Kilmar’s story and keep the pressure on Donald Trump to secure his safe return home.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

We have arrived in El Salvador. Trump is illegally arresting, jailing, & deporting people with no due process. We must hold the Administration accountable for these illegal acts and demand Kilmar’s release. Today it’s him, tomorrow it could be anyone else. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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House Dems travel to El Salvador to secure Maryland man's return

More Democrats are making the trip abroad to raise awareness for what they call a “constitutional crisis” surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 18/04/2025

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

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Karen Musalo @karenmusalo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

There are reports that ICE may disappear around 177 people at Bluebonnet Detention Center in TX to #ElSalvador today. This is completely lawless. Please call (202) 224-3121 & urge your reps to try to STOP the plane. @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 18/04/2025

SCOTUS ruled that Trump had to give people adequate notice before deporting them. Yet today, there are reports that he's deporting 177 immigrants with under 24 hours' notice—not enough time to assert due process. We cannot stand by as this admin continues to disappear people.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 18/04/2025

The Trump Admin is trying to disappear almost 200 more people to El Salvador. This is a violation of due process. If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)

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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 18/04/2025

🚨There are reports that ICE may disappear around 177 people at Bluebonnet Detention Center in TX to #ElSalvador today. When we say we need this type of leadership - we mean, NOW. Call (202) 224-3121 & urge your reps to try to STOP the plane. @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

VICTORY: A federal court just BLOCKED the Trump admin’s attempt to bring back the cruel Remain in Mexico policy. The Court agreed with @immdef.bsky.social: it endangers asylum seekers + violates their right to legal counsel. 📣 Full statement: tinyurl.com/apr17-2025

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🚨 El gobierno de EE.UU. ha desaparecido a más de 280 personas a una prisión de máxima seguridad en El Salvador, deportándolos sin debido proceso. ¿Qué está pasando y qué han dicho las cortes? Lo explicamos aquí. @fnlux.com vimeo.com/1075476972

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Deportaciones y desapariciones a El Salvador: video explicativo_Website

This is "Deportaciones y desapariciones a El Salvador: video explicativo_Website" by CGRS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Yesterday a federal court granted an emergency stay blocking the Trump admin's reimplementation of the Remain in Mexico policy. We're proud to represent @immdef.bsky.social in this case, along with @nipnlg.bsky.social @innovationlawlab.bsky.social. Our statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/court-b...

Photo of woman holding "Si al asilo" sign with butterflies. Overlay text reads, "Court blocks Remain in Mexico reimplementation"

Quote from CGRS Litigation Director Melissa Crow reads: “From day one, the Remain in Mexico policy has been an illegal scheme to subvert the right to seek asylum and to sabotage organizations like ImmDef working to protect their clients’ due process rights in unworkable and dangerous conditions of the government’s own making. This week the court rejected the government’s attempts to defend an indefensible policy that violates our laws and endangers the lives of people seeking safety. We look forward to securing an end to Remain in Mexico, once and for all.”

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele visited the White House. There Bukele and Trump doubled down on their illegal scheme that has resulted in the disappearances of over 280 people to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison. Our full statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/bukele-...

Quote from Felipe Navarro, CGRS Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy, reads: "The U.S. government should be working with our regional neighbors to defend human rights and the rule of law. Instead, the Trump administration is collaborating with Bukele to violate our laws and evade accountability, condemning people to indefinite abuse and imprisonment in another country, then falsely claiming it is powerless to redress the grave harm it has caused. We urge the administration to immediately end this blatantly illegal practice and return to the United States every single person disappeared to the CECOT."

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Al Otro Lado @alotrolado-org.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🚨 JUST SUBMITTED: Our joint report with @cgrsasylum.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org @undocublack.bsky.social, Haiti Justice Partnership + UCSF College of Law, to the UNHRC exposes how US immigration + border policies harm Haitian + other Black asylum seekers. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/pub...

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The Impact of U.S. Immigration and Border Externalization Policies on Haitian and Other Black Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Migrants | Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 03/04/2025

Congress is fast-tracking a funding bill that will empower Trump to experiment with authoritarian tactics through immigration enforcement—threatening our constitutional rights & democratic norms. Read our blog for 10 ways this bill’s immigration enforcement funds put us all at risk: bit.ly/3XHQZzn

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10 Ways the Budget Reconciliation Bill’s Immigration Enforcement Funds Put Us All At Risk

This explainer describes how a budget reconciliation bill will unlock the Trump administration’s ability to experiment with new and heightened authoritarian tactics through immigration enforcement, th...

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Refugee Council USA @rcusa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Kamila, a talented cook from Afghanistan, resettled in Vermont. With support from the ECDC Multicultural Community Center, "Kamila’s Kitchen Vermont" enriches the local culture while demonstrating the resilience of refugees. www.ecdcus.org/spicing-up-v... #WeWillWelcome

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

#BreakingNews After our compelling arguments yesterday w/ @justiceactionctr.bsky.social & Amica Center, a Fed Dist Court judge issued a temporary restraining order requiring the Trump admin to fund legal rep for unaccompanied children through April 16, 2025. 🧵⬇️ www.immdef.org/blog/kids-ac...

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Refugee Advocacy Lab @refugeeadvocacylab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Eid Mubarak!☪️ For many Muslims, faith, food & generosity offer comfort - reminding us that kindness & community are at the heart of Ramadan. Read on for a glimpse into different Refugee Storytellers Collective members' faith traditions: www.refugeestorytellerscollective.org/stories/rama...

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Refugee Advocacy Lab @refugeeadvocacylab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Across the U.S., Community Sponsorship Hub is highlighting a powerful movement of welcome. This includes 300+ state & local elected officials who are calling for the immediate restart of the U.S. refugee admissions program. Americans want to #DefendRefuge communitysponsorshiphub.org/news-stories...

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A Nation of Welcome: Where Americans Want to Welcome Refugees and Why it Matters | Community Sponsorship Hub

From the Great Plains to the Deep South, from the Rust Belt to the Mountain West, a quiet but powerful movement of welcome is reshaping the resettlement experience. A look at where volunteers have sig...

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Without advocates helping them, kids are more prone to be preyed upon, left without proper schooling or medical care, and trapped in unsafe living situations. ✉️Contact your elected officials and demand action to #SaveUCP: Tinyurl.com/protect-kids @acaciajustice.bsky.social

Graphic reads: "Give Hope to Children: Demand Legal Protections for Unaccompanied Children / tinyurl.com/protect-kids"

Text overlays photo of child with crayon writing, "hope / esperanza"

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🚨Today the government terminated legal services for immigrant kids assisted through @acaciajustice.bsky.social's Unaccompanied Children Program, which provides a crucial lifeline to kids seeking safety. We urge the admin to reverse this cruel decision: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/cgrs-de... #ProtectKids

Photo of child walking alone in front of orange wall. Overlay text reads, "CGRS Decries Termination of Legal Services for Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids"

Quote from CGRS Director of Training and Technical Assistance Christine Lin reads, "CGRS has consulted on thousands of cases involving children who have survived unimaginable trauma in their home countries, only to be thrust into a complex and adversarial immigration system that forces them to plead their case alone, as a government lawyer fights for their deportation. The Unaccompanied Children Program has provided a lifeline to these children, ensuring that their rights are respected and that they are protected from abuse and exploitation as they navigate the legal process. Abandoning them while fast-tracking their deportation cases will lead to mass due process violations and wrongful denials of protection. In cases with life-or-death stakes, this will mean children being unlawfully deported to countries where they face grave harm."

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Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project @florenceproject.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

CW: Forced labor, physical abuse This is our client Ramon*, who, without the Unaccompanied Children’s Program, may have been deported back to Guatemala, where his father had disappeared and his mother died when he was a child, forcing him to live and work for his alcoholic grandfather.

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CGRS @cgrsasylum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

CGRS and our partners just filed a lawsuit challenging the new mandatory bars rule, which circumvents due process to accelerate deportations of refugees: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/immigra... @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org @raicestexas.bsky.social @florenceproject.bsky.social

Photo of child at border fence in black and white. Overlay text reads, "CGRS and Partners Challenge New Barriers to Asylum"

Quote from CGRS Director of Litigation Melissa Crow reads: "Forcing asylum seekers to present documentary evidence and answer complex legal questions immediately upon their arrival, without any opportunity to consult with counsel, is absurd, inefficient, and dangerous. This rule allows the administration to circumvent due process and accelerate deportations of refugees to countries where they face grave harm, in blatant violation of our laws, and with deadly consequences.”

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 14/03/2025

Looking for a primer on immigration detention? This segment on @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver dives into detention going back to the 80s & 90s covering the change in laws, private prisons, & deaths in detention. It also includes a shout out to the state level strategies to end detention.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/03/2025

President Trump can't punish and deport someone for their political beliefs. Mahmoud Khalil has not been charged with a crime — he must be released immediately.

Black graphic with text "You're watching the most terrifying moment of my life. This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him away from me. They threatened to take me too, even though we were calm and fully cooperating. For the next 38 hours after this video, neither I or our lawyers knew for sure where Mahmoud was being held. Now, he's over 1,000 miles from home, still being wrongfully detained by US immigration."
The quote is attributed to Noor Abdalla, wife of Mahmoud Khalil.

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 07/03/2025

The alarming return of family detention, a policy that was widely condemned and has been dormant for four years, is yet another layer of the Trump administration’s unprecedented and cruel expansion of immigration detention, that if fully realized will triple the current detention system.

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights @theyoungcenter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We are still looking for #Volunteer Child Advocates across several of our Young Center offices! If you live in #Houston, #GrandRapids, #SanAntonio,#Phoenix, #Chicago, #WashingtonDC #NewYork or #NewJersey apply today to make a difference in the life of a child.

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