Jan. 29, 2021:
Two years ago today, the Trump administration subjected the first migrant to a callous and unlawful policy that risks asylum seekers lives by forcing them to wait in
Mexico for their
U.S. immigration court hearings, stranded in border towns under life-threatening conditions.
Stuck there, families sleep in tents that do little to protect them from the elements or crime. Others crowd together in grimy streets without blankets or pillows amidst this humanitarian crisis. Parents clutch their children tightly out of fear they could be kidnapped.
The Trump administration officially implemented the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the Remain in
SCOTUS should overturn the ‘return to Mexico’ policy, ABA says in amicus brief
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The Trump administration s remain in Mexico policy undermines asylum-seekers right to counsel, due process and ethical standards under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
Chad F. Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security et al., v. Innovation Law Lab et al., the ABA noted that only 7% of individuals affected by the policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, are represented by counsel. In citing government data, the association said 60% of immigrants in the United States have counsel.
WASHINGTON - Human Rights First, the National Immigration Law Center (“NILC”), and Sidley Austin LLP today filed an amicus curiae friend of the court brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (“MPP”), or “Remain in Mexico” policy.
Chronicle investigation: U.S. Justice Department lacks strong harassment oversight for judges
WASHINGTON One judge made a joke about genitalia during a court proceeding and was later promoted. Another has been banned for more than seven years from the government building where he worked after management found he harassed female staff, but is still deciding cases.
A third, a supervisor based mostly in San Francisco, commented with colleagues about the attractiveness of female job candidates, an internal investigation concluded. He was demoted and transferred to a courtroom in Sacramento.
The three men, all immigration judges still employed by the Justice Department, work for a court system designed to give immigrants a fair chance to stay in the U.S. Every day, they hear some of the most harrowing stories of trauma in the world, many from women who were victims of gender-based violence and who fear that their lives are at risk if they are deported to their native countries.