Humanitarian Protection

Humanitarian Protection

This Special Program Gives Refugee Athletes a Chance to Compete in the Olympics  

This Special Program Gives Refugee Athletes a Chance to Compete in the Olympics  

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to expand a unique venture for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo: The Refugee Olympic Team. The expansion is part of the IOC’s long-term effort to empower displaced athletes both before and after the Olympics.    The Refugee Olympic Team will feature athletes from 13 countries around the world, including Afghanistan, South… Read More

Scientific Evidence Shows Assumptions About Asylum Seekers’ Memory Are Wrong

Scientific Evidence Shows Assumptions About Asylum Seekers’ Memory Are Wrong

How well should someone be able to remember every detail of a traumatic event? The U.S. government argues people should have a near perfect memory to obtain asylum—even if they experienced the trauma years in the past. Due to unprecedented backlogs in immigration court and the Asylum office,… Read More

Biden Will Admit Asylum Seekers Ordered Deported Under Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols

Biden Will Admit Asylum Seekers Ordered Deported Under Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols

Asylum seekers who were ordered deported for missing their U.S. court hearings under the Trump administration’s so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)—informally known as the “Remain in Mexico” program—will be allowed to restart their proceedings in the United States. Thousands of others whose cases were terminated because of procedural… Read More

On World Refugee Day, A Call to Rebuild U.S. Refugee Resettlement

On World Refugee Day, A Call to Rebuild U.S. Refugee Resettlement

World Refugee Day is celebrated internationally on June 20 every year. It honors the struggle of refugees around the world who are fleeing violence and persecution and are unable to safely return to their home countries. Over this past year, in the middle of a devastating global pandemic, the number… Read More

Attorney General Rescinds Two Trump Decisions, Restoring Protection to Many Asylum Seekers

Attorney General Rescinds Two Trump Decisions, Restoring Protection to Many Asylum Seekers

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on June 16 that he is restoring a vital lifeline to survivors of gender-based violence, gang violence, and violence on account of family relationships. Garland issued two decisions overruling Trump-era Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr’s rulings disqualify many such individuals from asylum in… Read More

Supreme Court Denies TPS Holders a Chance at Permanent Status

Supreme Court Denies TPS Holders a Chance at Permanent Status

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled this week in Sanchez v. Mayorkas that people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who entered the United States unlawfully are ineligible to obtain a green card in most cases. The decision has a devastating effect on thousands of long-time TPS holders who… Read More

Biden Administration Begins Reuniting the First of Thousands of Migrant Families Still Separated

Biden Administration Begins Reuniting the First of Thousands of Migrant Families Still Separated

Four families separated under the Trump administration will be reunited this week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced. They will be the first families to be reunited thanks to the efforts of the Family Reunification Task Force, launched by the Biden administration in February. It’s estimated that over… Read More

Supreme Court Considers the Future for Thousands of People With TPS

Supreme Court Considers the Future for Thousands of People With TPS

The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument this week on the question of whether certain people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and who have developed strong connections with their communities that have made them eligible for more permanent status, may get their green card. The outcome of the case,… Read More

Biden’s Commitment to Refugees in Question After Flip-Flopping on Admissions Cap

Biden’s Commitment to Refugees in Question After Flip-Flopping on Admissions Cap

Throughout his presidential campaign and after the election, Joe Biden repeatedly condemned President Trump’s decision to slash the U.S. refugee admissions level to its lowest in history. He  promised to raise the number of refugees admitted to 125,000 a year. But on April 16, President Biden instead signed a… Read More

How the Biden Administration Is Responding to Unaccompanied Children, Families, and Adults at the Border

How the Biden Administration Is Responding to Unaccompanied Children, Families, and Adults at the Border

Only days after President Biden took office, some people were already declaring that the border was in a state of crisis. But recently released U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics reveal that the truth is more complicated. The Biden administration is dealing with two very different phenomena at the… Read More

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