. Luckily, the case law for US Asylum allows for certain discretions when a person no longer qualifies for asylum at the time an officer or immigration judge is making a final decision. The most important points that are taken into consideration when deciding to grant a humanitarian asylum ...
Cantone-Hardy, KatieGeorge Washington Law Review
This chapter presents an account of asylum’s humanitarian function. After briefly identifying various moral functions that asylum may possess—such as the expression of condemnation and solidarity—Souter lays out the main characteristics of the dominant humanitarian approach to this institution, offering ...
named for a section of an obscure 1944 public health law that Trump used in March 2020 to effectively end asylum at the Mexican border. With COVID-19 vaccination rates rising, Biden is finding it increasingly difficult to justify the expulsions on public health...
It also discusses Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, gang-related asylum case law, and the difficulty of prevailing in asylum claims based on persecution by gangs. It concludes with recommendations to the administration and policymakers to ensure compliance with US obligations under national and ...
There is no fee to apply for asylum. You may include your spouse and children who are in the United States on your application at the time you file or at any time until a final decision is made on your case. To include your child on your application, the child must be under 21...
Given the causal linkage of attention to the provision of assistance, asylum, refuge, and compassion, shouldn’t impartiality guide the institutional use of humanitarian media resources, such as an agency’s home pages or its Twitter feed? Perhaps this would have been the perfect time to counter...
now, this pilot program’s results will be scrutinized and monitored before it is expanded. And to be clear, it’s inaccurate to characterize the people receiving the debit card benefits as “illegals” or “illegal immigrants.” Manyare asylum-seekerswho are pursuing lawful hum...
The exclusive focus on the modalities of rescue has overshadowed the peculiar politics of life that underpins military-humanitarian operations: migrants seeking asylum become lives to rescue and their freedom – of movement and of choosing a safe place to stay – is dislodged from the outset. The...
but by states who routinely violate international law in preventing black and brown people fleeing poverty and violence from seeking asylum—in addition to, in many cases, contributing to the destabilization of refugees’ home countries and the climate change that makes them uninhabitable in the first...