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Missouri Bans Child Marriage
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July 9th, 2025JEFFERSON CITY – Incredibly, in 2025, child marriage is still legal in most of the United States. But now the practice is banned across Missouri — making the Show Me […]
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Breaking Down the News: Supreme Court Allows DHS to Deport People to Countries They Are Not From
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July 6th, 2025On June 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision in the case DHS v. DVD. The ruling allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to start deporting people […]
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Breaking Down the News: How the January 20 Executive Orders Impact Immigrant Survivors
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July 6th, 2025This analysis focuses on the impact the January 20 executive orders are likely to have on the ability of immigrant women, girls, and other survivors of gender-based violence to access safety and the legal status to which they are entitled under law.
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Two pregnant asylum-seekers in neighboring states face different birthright citizenship challenges
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July 3rd, 2025Two pregnant women, one in North Carolina and one in South Carolina, face potentially fractured paths for their babies after the Supreme Court limited judges’ ability to issue nationwide orders […]
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Tahirih in the States: Georgia Legislative Session Update
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July 1st, 2025During the 2024-25 legislative session in Georgia, numerous bills were introduced that posed serious threats to immigrant survivors of violence, as well as to the broader immigrant community. These proposed […]
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Tahirih Justice Center Warns Supreme Court Ruling Undermines Legal Safeguards Against Executive Overreach
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June 27th, 2025Today, the Supreme Court permitted an executive order redefining birthright citizenship to go into effect for everyone except the specific plaintiffs in ongoing federal litigation. In so ruling, the court […]
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Fear and Silence: New Insights from Survey of 170+ Advocates for Immigrant Survivors of Violence
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June 24th, 2025Attorneys and advocates for survivors of violence have noted a troubling trend in the first months of 2025: immigrant crime victims are even more afraid to seek help from the […]