by Alyssa Currier Wheeler | Jun 20, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: ALYSSA CURRIER In the United States, there is a growing, bipartisan movement to combat human trafficking. As advocates work together to address trafficking, it is important to recognize all people groups the crime frequently affects. This World Refugee Day – June...
by Suzanne Tomatore | Feb 15, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: SUZANNE TOMATORE, ESQ. In October 2018, the U.S. federal government published a proposed rule change1 on “public charge” that would affect noncitizens adjusting their immigration status to lawful permanent residence (a “green card”). Among those the change would...
by Sarah Hamill | Jan 15, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“We have worked hard and just want what is due to us and to go home. We are stuck now in cramped accommodation, with poor food and no clean drinking water. We are treated like animals.”1 By: SARAH HAMILL This Nepalese construction worker in Qatar is not alone in his...
by Jessica Skocik | Dec 4, 2018 | Articles, Case Law, Legal Blog
By: JESSICA SKOCIK Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson knew something was not right about GEO Group’s immigration detention facilities when he stated, “Let’s be honest about what’s going on: GEO has a captive population of vulnerable individuals who cannot...
by Elizabeth Ranade Janis | Nov 13, 2018 | Advocacy, Articles, Legal Blog
By: ELIZABETH RANADE JANIS For Harold D’Souza and his family, the complexity of finding and navigating assistance in the criminal justice and social service systems is not an abstraction. In 2003, the D’Souza family arrived in the United States seeking hope and...