Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program

by Colleen Walsh via The Harvard Gazette Dreamers and DACA supporters rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court. In a 5-4 vote, the court…

by Sarah Betancourt via CommonWealth Magazine Estefany Pineda, DACA recipient and University of Massachusetts-Boston student, during a protest with the Student Immigrant Movement. IN…

via HIRC blog by Mary Hewey     Recently, our HIRC at GBLS team, including Co-Managing Directors Nancy Kelly and John Willshire-Carrera and former Albert…

via HIRC blog Though Massachusetts is far from the Southern border, many immigrants are still detained across the state. Until recently, one of those…

via Harvard Law Today credit: Martha Stewart Sabrineh Ardalan ’02, who teaches in the fields of immigration and refugee law and…

Credit: FRANCISCO KJOLSETH/THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE VIA AP via The Boston Globe by Danny McDonald The state has received more than $160 million in…

via Harvard Law Bulletin Winter 2020 by Cara Solomon It was just the seed of an idea 35 years ago: a clinic that would…

Via Law360 By Suzanne Monyak The U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s proposal to collect social media handles from foreign citizens has been met with backlash…

Via Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program I wanted to intern at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) so much that it…

Via Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program What does the day-to-day look like for a social work intern at HIRC? Well, it could look…

Via Law360  By: Kaitlyn Burton A Guatemalan woman has another shot at asylum after the First Circuit said Friday that the Board of Immigration…

Via HIRC By: Mariana Ferreira Before interning at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) my understanding of social work was limited to the…

Via Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Students who work at HIRC come to the Clinic with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. For…

By: Angelica Merino Monge and Logan Seymour In 2009, Imani*, a citizen of Guinea, West Africa, fled the country with the youngest of her four…

By: Alexis Farmer “I suffered persecution because of my strong beliefs that the government should guarantee the basic rights of its people,” said Elvia*. The…

Via MassLive By: Steph Solis Despite mounting fears of raids, community organizers are urging Massachusetts immigrants to take advantage of a federal judge’s order…

Via the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program In anticipation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) plans to step up immigration enforcement beginning…

Via the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Last week, the Clinic and five other groups filed a request to the Inter-American Commission on…

Via the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic Abraham* began his journey at the Harvard Immigration Clinic (HIRC) in 2011, when he first met Managing…

By: Alexis Farmer The numerous clinics at Harvard Law School (HLS) are frequently successful in their pursuit of advancing justice. We often read of victories…

Via the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Nate MacKenzie and Nora Picasso Uvalle, LLM ’19 (far right) pictured with their clients On May…