Via Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic

From left: Jin Kim, JD '18, Sabi Ardalan, Assistant Director, HIRC, and Mana Azarmi, JD '17

From left: Jin Kim, JD ’18, Sabi Ardalan, Assistant Director, HIRC, and Mana Azarmi, JD ’17

The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) filed on Thursday an amicus curiae brief in support of a lawsuit that seeks, among other things, to prevent the Trump administration from lowering the number of refugees that can be allowed into the country.

The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), challenges President Trump’s January 27 Executive Order, which halved the number of refugees allowed into the country during this fiscal year, from 110,000 to 50,000.

Continue reading

Filed in: Legal & Policy Work

Tags: Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program

Contact Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs

Website:
hls.harvard.edu/clinics

Email:
clinical@law.harvard.edu