Asylum Procedures

In this policy memo, the #WelcomeWithDignity Campaign recommends four practical solutions to ensure meaningful access to a fair and humane asylum process.

We joined our co-authors in releasing guiding principles for a regional framework on migration and protection in the Americas in anticipation of the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California in June 2022.

We joined 25 others organizations on a statement about the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection.

We joined more than 150 organizations in a letter to President Biden urging him to reverse course following reports that the administration may wield its executive power to enact extreme anti-asylum policies.

This memo explains how relying on a "manifestation of fear" process, or “shout test,” at the border results in refugees being returned to danger, in violation of international law.

Carta pública dirigida a la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México, Alicia Báracena para hacer un llamado para que México no acepte ningún acuerdo adicional con Estados Unidos que incremente expulsiones de personas, desde ese país a territorio mexicano, transgrediendo aún más el derecho a solicitar y recibir asilo y exponiendo a las personas en situación de movilidad a abusos y violaciones a derechos humanos.

We joined an open letter addressed to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Alicia Báracena, urging the Mexican government to refrain from agreeing to more migrant expulsions from the United States in light of restrictive, anti-asylum proposals being considered by the U.S. Congress.

CGRS joined 40 LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights organizations in a letter to Congress and President Biden, urging them to reject legislative proposals that would gut asylum protections for LGBTQ+ refugees.

CGRS Director Professor Karen Musalo joined refugee and human rights law experts in a letter urging Congress to reject proposals that would effectively dismantle the U.S. asylum system.

We joined a statement to Congress expressing extreme concern over proposals that would devastate the U.S. asylum process and harm asylum seekers and other vulnerable immigrants.