Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Reflections”
In recent months, our Detention team has seen a marked change in the number and types of immigrants detained locally and nationwide. In January 2021, the Biden administration inherited a record low number of 14,195 people in immigration detention, in large part due to Trump’s closing of the border following COVID-19. Fast-forward almost 6 months later, and over 27,000 persons have …
Former Member, Miami-Dade County School Board Janet McAliley was a former member of the Miami-Dade County School Board. She was first elected to the School Board in 1980 and was subsequently re-elected three times, serving for four terms until 1996. Among her many accomplishments during her tenure was helping an undocumented high school student secure status so that she could …
No Rest for the Wicked After returning from Tijuana, I felt like I had a good understanding of the current state of the asylum-process at the border. In an example of how things change overnight, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last night that it would be proceeding with its Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), where some asylum-seekers will be …
Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. We returned to Miami Tuesday morning, and we are still processing the experience. As the Al Otro Lado team promised, we became “veterans” after 12 hours, assisting with …
Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Day 4 began early for us, 7 a.m., but many migrants, replete with suitcases and their children, arrived before daylight broke at El Chaparral, the PedWest footbridge to …
Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Our orientation with Al Otro Lado started with one of the volunteer organizers saying that the daily grind is like “flying a plane that is on fire and …
Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. We made it. We are here. We are safe. We have seen this post circulating on social media and thought it was an appropriate time to share. The …
Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. It is 3:30 a.m. Miami time, and we just arrived to our hotel in Chula Vista, California, 7 miles from the Southern border. Looking at the map to …
July 20, 2018 Due to processing delays, USCIS has issued an automatic extension of work authorization to eligible Haitian TPS recipients for whom work authorization is set to expire Saturday, July 21 and who have not yet received their employment authorization document (EAD). For the nearly 5,000 Haitian TPS recipients affected by this delay, automatic work authorization will be extended …
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