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CGRS Comment in Response to DHS Request for Comments: Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers
We submitted a comment analyzing and urging the Biden administration to withdraw its proposed rule creating a new system for adjudication of asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims, which undermines U.S. legal obligations to protect refugees.
Evolution of Refugee and Asylum Law in the United States
This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe. CGRS Director Karen Musalo authored Chapter 2: Evolution of Refugee and Asylum Law in the United States.
Working with Medical and Mental Health Experts in Asylum and Related Fear-of-Return Claims
This article discusses the role health experts play in asylum and other fear-of-return cases and offers guidance on best practices for collaboration between attorneys and experts.
Applying the refugee definition to child-specific forms of persecution
This chapter in the "Research Handbook on Child Migration" analyzes how the refugee definition properly applies in children’s asylum cases and how governments can better protect children from harm.
CGRS Comment in Response to DHS and DOJ Request for Comments: Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, 88 Fed. Reg. 31314
We submitted our analysis of the government's final "asylum ban" rule, which bars from asylum most people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. Our comment urges the agencies to withdraw the rule in its entirety.
CGRS Comment in Response to DHS and DOJ Request for Comments: Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, 88 Fed. Reg. 11704
We submitted our analysis of the government's proposed "asylum ban" rule, which would bar from asylum most people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. Our comment urges the agencies to withdraw the rule in its entirety.
Testimony of Blaine Bookey at the Inter-American Commission on the Human Rights Situation in the United States
CGRS Comment in Response to DHS Request for Input: Identifying Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families
CGRS urges the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families to review all aspects of U.S. asylum law and policy that deliberately or inadvertently lead to family separation, and to make recommendations that will put families at the center of protection.
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