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Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
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HIRC & IDP Release “Particularly Serious Crime” Bars Report and Chart
September 21, 2018
Via the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Source: Pixabay On September 20, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program’s Crimmigration Clinic and the…
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Survived to Tell the Story
September 20, 2018
Via The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program By: Mutasim Ali Mutasim Ali This post was written by Mutasim Ali, a summer intern at…
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IHRC Clinic Releases Joint Briefing Papers on Refugee Freedom of Movement and Business Documentation in Kakuma, Kenya
September 14, 2018
Via the International Human Rights Clinic By: Anna Crowe The International Human Rights Clinic and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Kenya released two briefing papers…
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HIRC files amicus brief on latest travel ban
April 5, 2018
Via the Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinical Program On March 30th, HIRC filed an amicus brief challenging President Trump’s latest immigration order. The brief…
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From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—Working under the direction of HIRC’s Managing Attorney Phil Torrey, Crimmigration Clinic students Clarissa Lehne ’18 and Mike Ewart ’18 successfully argued before the Board of Immigration Appeals that their client’s conviction should not result in his detention and deportation.
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Cravath Fellows pursue law projects around the world
March 14, 2018
From Harvard Law Today—Niku Jafarnia ’19 spent Winter Term in Amman, Jordan, undertaking an independent clinical with the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). Her commitment to working with refugees and asylum seekers began in college, when she drew on her Iranian heritage and her fluency in Farsi as an intake volunteer.
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A celebration of immigration
March 7, 2018
From Harvard Gazette—Life for undocumented immigrants is full of risks. Any encounter with law-enforcement officials — on the sidewalk, while they are driving, or in their homes in the middle of the night — can lead to arrest and possible deportation.
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Concern over a DACA deadline
March 1, 2018
From Harvard Law Today—Between 60 and 80 undocumented students are studying at Harvard, and though they’re a small fraction of the student body, some could have their lives eventually turned upside down.
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New Sanctuary Cities Case Study Published
February 9, 2018
From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The case study has students play various roles in a legislative simulation before the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. You can download a free copy.
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HIRC files amicus briefs on travel ban 3.0
December 4, 2017
From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—Last week, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program filed two amicus briefs in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits to challenge President Trump’s most recent iteration of the travel ban.
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Phil Torrey’s article “Jennings v. Rodriguez and the Future of Immigration Detention” published in Harvard Latinx Law Review
November 21, 2017
From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—In Jennings, the Court will consider both statutory and constitutional challenges to the government’s ability to detain certain individuals without providing them the opportunity to be released on bond.
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From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—Through direct representation, our clinic, along with others, has helped shape the thinking of decision-makers, changed the culture of legal institutions, and put pressure on higher level decision-makers.
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Women refugees and why law matters
October 24, 2017
From Harvard Law Today—In many ways, Jane’s life in Kenya was idyllic. She was an educated, confident professional woman with a flourishing career. She owned her own perfume business, and was four months into a prestigious new job in the banking sector.
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Clinic alumna wins International ‘Outstanding Young Lawyer’ Award
October 23, 2017
From The Gleaner—In 2016, Malene decided to pursue an LLM at Harvard, but she maintained a close connection to human rights practice through her work with the Harvard International Human Rights Clinic and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program.
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HIRC requests hearing on Canada’s treatment of refugees from Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
October 19, 2017
From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The clinic filed a request for a hearing with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to discuss the human rights situation of refugee claimants under the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States.
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Support for the Harvard Community in the wake of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sweeps
October 6, 2017
From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The sweeps have resulted in several hundred arrests across the country, and it is believed that approximately 50 people were arrested in Massachusetts.
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From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The new travel ban, like the previous ones, exceeds the President’s authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as HIRC set forth in an amicus brief filed last week.
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On DACA, questions top answers
September 26, 2017
From Harvard Law Today—When the Trump administration announced on Sept. 5 that it intended to upend the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which has banned deportation of many young immigrants, the move seemed to set a general course for what would come next.
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HIRC student Brianna Rennix (JD ’18) publishes “At the Border” in Current Affairs Magazine
August 29, 2017
From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—For the past two summers, HIRC student Brianna Rennix (JD ’18) has traveled to Texas to represent mothers and children struggling to obtain humanitarian protection.
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Report offers critical recommendations for resettling refugees to safeguard human rights and U.S. national interests
June 28, 2017
From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The Report contains extensive recommendations regarding the United States’ historical role in protecting vulnerable refugees, safeguarding foreign policy interests, advancing American job creation, and complying with humanitarian and legal obligations.
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From Harvard Law Today—Sabrineh Ardalan ’02 has been appointed assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School. She was formerly a lecturer on law at HLS.