June 23, 2018 El [Fiscal General] Sessions ha hablado de cambios en las solicitudes de asilo político y una experta analiza este panorama. Vea la entrevista aquí.
8-YEAR-OLD BOY SEPARATED FROM FATHER EXPECTED TO REPRESENT HIMSELF IN IMMIGRATION COURT – THE HILL
June 22, 2018 By Avery Anapol An 8-year-old boy who was separated from his father at the border was expected to represent himself in immigration court, according to a new report from The New Yorker. The boy, named in the report by only his first name, Pedro, did not have legal counsel or a right to a public defender, The New Yorker reported. Pedro …
SOUTH FLORIDA ICE DETENTION CENTER AND JAIL WON’T LET MUSLIMS OBSERVE RAMADAN, LAWYERS SAY – MIAMI NEW TIMES
By Jerry Ianelli June 7, 2018 When 92 Somali detainees were flown from Louisiana to Dakar, Senegal, and then inexplicably taken to Miami at the end of 2017, immigration lawyers representing the group were particularly worried about one thing: While some of the detainees were being held at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Krome Processing Center in West Miami-Dade County, others were shipped …
ICE DETENTION CENTER IS CREATING OBSTACLES TO RAMADAN OBSERVANCE FOR MUSLIM DETAINEES, LAWYERS SAY – THE INTERCEPT
By Maryam Saleh June 7, 2018 When an inmate at the Glades County Detention Center requests a Bible, the turnaround is about as rapid as one would expect, often with the chaplain’s personal involvement. Ask for a copy of the Quran, and be prepared to wait. Thanks to an ill-fated airplane flight that made international news when it failed to deport 92 …
DONALD TRUMP IS TEARING LIVES OF IMMIGRANTS APART – IRISH EXAMINER
May 25, 2018 Trump may not have built his wall but he is effectively deterring immigration through detentions, deportations, separations, threats and a culture of fear, writes Bette Browne. WITHOUT putting up a single brick of his proposed wall against immigrants, US President Donald Trump is deterring them from entering the country by deporting thousands of other immigrants already in …
WITHOUT IMMIGRATION REFORM, EVEN THOSE HERE LEGALLY ARE IN DANGER OF DEPORTATION – THE MIAMI HERALD
By Cheryl Little May 14, 2018 Fifteen months after taking office, President Trump is fulfilling his pledge to build a “great, beautiful” wall to keep immigrants out. Even if no concrete is ever poured, the wall is effectively being built through executive orders, procedural changes, detentions and deportations. The government is chipping away at fundamental laws and policies that protect …
¿TIENE TPS Y NO QUIERE IRSE DE EEUU? ESTOS ABOGADOS DE INMIGRACIÓN LO ASESORARÁN GRATIS
POR DANIEL SHOER ROTH 11 de mayo de 2018 En los últimos meses el presidente Donald Trump ha retirado protecciones legales a cientos de miles de inmigrantes que tienen el Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS). La cancelación del TPS a hondureños, salvadoreños, haitianos y nicaragüenses, ha sumido a estas familias en la incertidumbre sobre su futuro. ¿Deben marcharse a sus países de …
U.S. REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT OFFICES CLOSE AS FLOW OF ARRIVALS DRIES UP UNDER TRUMP – UNIVISION NEWS
This year barely 20,000 refugees are expected to be allowed into the U.S., compared to more than 100,000 in past years. As a result, the Trump administration is cutting funding to non-profit groups who help resettle them. By David Adams April 24, 2018 The Trump administration’s policy to curtail the flow of refugees into the U.S. is causing refugee resettlement …
SOUTH FLORIDA LAWYERS FEAR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SQUEEZING ASYLUM SEEKERS – WLRN
BY TIM PADGETT MAR 28, 2017 Typically, when people are in the court system they want their cases heard as quickly as possible. But asylum requests are different. Building an asylum case usually involves the long and daunting task of gathering evidence from other countries. And here in South Florida that often means developing regions like Central America. So lawyers usually expect …
SEVEN MIAMI ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – MIAMI NEW TIMES
By Taylor Estape March 6, 2018 Since the earliest iteration of the feminist movement, the fight for femme equality and justice has been a push-and-pull of progress and setbacks. Even as activism claimed victories in legislation for suffrage, birth control, and equal pay, issues that specifically affected women of color, immigrant women, and transgender women, among others, have consistently been …