Today President Biden announced ANOTHER ban on asylum that applies only to people seeking safe haven at the Mexico-U.S. border. The proposed rule, which is 153 pages long, violates U.S. and international laws, and would effectively block the people who need it most from seeking asylum 🧵

Baffled how DHS and DOJ continue to think "deterrence" of lawful asylum claims is a legitimate regulatory purpose consistent with the INA and Refugee Act

What Needs to Change to Help Asylum Seekers: Zachary Manfredi Zachary Manfredi The Rational Middle rationalmiddle.com/asylum-seekers…

Listen to ASAP Policy and Advocacy Director Zachary Manfredi discuss how ASAP is working alongside its 475,000+ members to improve the asylum system and make the U.S. a more welcoming place for all immigrants on the Rational Middle Podcast with Chris Lyon: 🔊rationalmiddle.com/asylum-seekers…

50 cities - including NYC, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia & SF - embrace asylum seekers' recommendations for how to reform the work permit system. Powerful advocacy telling the federal gov't how important it is to get work permits to asylum seekers faster!

Families need access to #WorkPermits! Thank you Cities for Action for calling on Ur M. Jaddou & Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to let #AsylumSeekers work and contribute to their communities ⏩ citiesforaction.us/employment_aut…

Thank you Cities for Action for listening to #AsylumSeekers! 50+ communities signed a letter to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas & Ur M. Jaddou urging President Biden to get #WorkPermits to asylum seekers faster + included asylum seekers' recommendations ⏩ citiesforaction.us/employment_aut… #WelcomeWithDignity USCIS

Today 50+ C4A mayors & county executives sent a bipartisan letter to Homeland Security calling on them to address inequities in processing applications for employment authorization bit.ly/40yzP6p Thank you @AILA Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) for your partnership on this advocacy

😻 ASAP has reached 500k members! 😻 🌐 With thousands joining every week, ASAP members represent the largest community of #AsylumSeekers in the world! 🌐 About 1 in 4 asylum seekers in the U.S. is an ASAP member. In a country with a population of 334M...🧵

Thanks for your advocacy, ASAP members! Mayors from across the U.S. Cities for Action are asking Ur M. Jaddou & Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to speed up #WorkPermits for asylum seekers, while Congresswoman Chellie Pingree 🇺🇸🇺🇦 has introduced a bill to cut wait times & renewal requirements. newscentermaine.com/video/news/may…

"ASAP and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights SF organized a coalition to create a program to identify families to inform them about their rights to see if they were interested in bringing these claims,” said @ZakManfredi. Read the latest in the govt's push to defend #FamilySeparation. azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

“My children may be forced to go through daylong questioning by government lawyers and medical examiners who will try to blame me for what happened to them," a mother who was forcibly separated from her kids under the Trump #FamilySeparation policy in 2018 told USA Today. 🧵

Thank you USA TODAY for asking the Biden admin why the DOJ is using such aggressive tactics to defend the Trump #FamilySeparation policy against separated families suing for justice, even after President Biden called it "abhorrent." Why retraumatize kids to defend an abhorrent policy?

Translation of our book is out!

Excruciating read by ⁦Kevin Sieff⁩ on the fallout of Trump’s family separation policy on one family. The Biden admin’s reunification task force has done such important work, but failing to settle the civil damages suits is a continuing stain. /1 washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/…

We are increasing the maximum validity period from 2 years to 5 years for initial & renewal Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for recipients of withholding of removal, V nonimmigrants, and those admitted as refugees, paroled as refugees, or granted asylum. (1/3)

Over Jotwell today, I review Violence in the Administrative State (California Law Review forthcoming), a great new article by Emily Chertoff, who is an exciting new voice in the fields of administrative law and immigration law: adlaw.jotwell.com/revisiting-imm…

An analysis of war crimes law that applies both to Hamas's atrocities on 7/10 and to the cutting off food and other essential sustenance to Gaza's civilian population. Read leading expert on these issues, professor Tom Dannenbaum. justsecurity.org/89403/the-sieg…