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Sep 23, 2024

Enduring Change: A Data Review of Firsthand Accounts of Climate Mobility Impacts

The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), Al Otro Lado, 

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Sep 18, 2024

Offshoring Human Rights: Detention of Refugees at Guantánamo Bay

In this report, IRAP exposes the U.S. government’s secretive practice of interdicting refugee families at

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Jul 9, 2024

IRAP Objects to DHS and EOIR Interim Final Rule Obliterating Access to Asylum at the U.S. Southern Border 

On July 8, 2024, IRAP submitted a public comment opposing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Interim Final Rule on Securing the Border, published on June 7, 2024.

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Jun 13, 2024

IRAP Urges DHS to Rescind Proposed Rule Applying Mandatory Asylum Bars at Initial Border Fear Screenings, Compounding Rights Violations

On June 12, 2024, IRAP submitted a public comment strongly opposing the DHS proposed rule, Application of Certain Mandatory Bars in Fear Screenings, published on May 13, 2024.

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Jun 3, 2024

The Human Consequences of Biden’s Forthcoming Attempt to Shut Down the Border

Extensive news coverage indicates that the Biden administration will issue an executive order on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, effectively closing the border.

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Mar 25, 2024

Legal Action Agenda for Climate Displacement

IRAP, alongside nine other nonprofit organizations who engage in climate action and migrant and refugee advocacy, published a legal action agenda that sets concrete steps to ensure the rights and well-being of climate-displaced people in the Americas.

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Mar 14, 2024

Student Report: New York City Immigration Court Monitoring

This report analyzes quantitative and qualitative data on three New York City immigration courts collected by volunteer court observers between 2022 and 2023.

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Feb 7, 2024

France: New asylum and immigration law adopted after a broad censure of almost half the provisions by the Constitutional Council

This position note analyzes the provisions relating to family immigration initially included in the Darmanin law of January 26, 2024 "to control immigration and improve integration," which were set aside after a broad censure of the law by the French Constitutional Council.

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Jan 11, 2024

Humanitarian Visas and Admission Programmes: Legal Situation and Practice in Germany

This report analyzes the current humanitarian admission programmes in Germany, including individual and group admissions at the State and Federal level.

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Sep 26, 2023

Standing with Afghan Allies: Five Steps the U.S. State Department Must Take to Fix the Afghan SIV Program

The State Department must immediately reform the initial stage of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program in which applicants obtain employment verification—otherwise known as Chief of Mission (COM) approval—before more Afghans die waiting for the United States to fulfill its promise to them.

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Sep 13, 2023

The Continuing Impact of the Muslim Ban: Submission before the United Nations Human Rights Committee for its Review of the…

IRAP submitted a shadow report on the ongoing impact of the Muslim Ban that was joined by other organizations litigating the Muslim Ban. In our report we argue that international human rights law requires the United States to end all remnants of the Muslim Ban and ensure the swift reunification of families that remain separated as a result of the Muslim Ban.

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Mar 30, 2023

Climate of Coercion: Environmental and Other Drivers of Cross-Border Displacement in Central America and Mexico

This report analyzes the intersection of climate change and climate-related disasters with other root causes of movement across borders for people who have traveled to the United States-Mexico border from Central America and other parts of Mexico to seek U.S. humanitarian protection. It is based on 38 interviews in Tijuana shelters with Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican, and Salvadoran individuals who intend to seek U.S. asylum, conducted in Spanish in January 2023 by HUMSI and a team of Stanford Law School students.

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