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Title 42 came to an end on Friday after more than three years. The once-obscure Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocol was put in place by the Trump administration in 2020 under the premise that it was needed to protect public health during the pandemic. It’s also been expanded under President Joe Biden.

Many border nonprofits face significant resource constraints that could tighten when the Title 42 policy lifts this week.

Equal Justice Works (EJW), the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, today recognized global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP for sponsoring more than 200 EJW fellows since 1999, when the firm began supporting EJW.

Title 42 — the controversial, Trump-era pandemic protocol that allows immigration authorities to rapidly expel migrants — is ending in less than two weeks. That has local officials in border towns speaking out about a potential “humanitarian disaster” on the horizon if they are flooded by migrants seeking asylum, as many expect.

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) April 27, 2023 -- Equal Justice Works (EJW), the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, today

The voices of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers must be at the center of debates on U.S. border policy.

The White House unveiled a plan Thursday to deny asylum to migrants who try to cross the southwest border illegally or who do not first seek asylum in countries they cross on their way to the U.S. as they flee their home countries.

The search committee has concluded its work and expects to announce a dean for the Blewett School of Law in the coming weeks.

A group of University of Arizona faculty members and their community partners are preparing to launch a public archive containing the stories of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants incarcerated in Arizona.

Over his six years at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Esteban Gil watched colleague after colleague leave