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Protecting and Serving U.S. Immigrants
What’s the most interesting question in the aftermath of President Obama’s executive action on immigration?
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Foreign Domestic Violence Victims May Now Qualify as Refugees
Martha’s gangster boyfriend threw her down a flight of stairs and struck her so hard in her head that her ears rang for hours. Now, a landmark ruling in August from the nation’s highest immigration court could help Martha and other domestic violence survivors.
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How I Honor My Heartbeat
I have had to endure my own journey with this book. When I first flipped through it I heard my blood loudly in my ears as I saw my face in the faces of the girls drawn in thick black lines. I remembered growing through the pain of cultural multiplicity as a young South Asian American.
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Clogged Immigration Courts Slow Hearings
Justice delayed is justice denied.
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IPS Brings Attention to Tahirih’s Call for Coordinated, Federal Response to Forced Marriage
Inter Press Service, a global news agency that focuses on coverage of marginalized communities,interviewed an expert about Tahirih’s call for a coordinated, federal response to the problem of forced marriage in the United States.
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Focus on Child Marriage, Genital Mutilation at All-Time High
Inter Press Service, a global news agency that focuses on coverage of marginalized communities, brought attention to Tahirih’s call for a coordinated, federal response to the problem of forced marriage in the United States in an article published this week.
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Big Think Features Layli Miller-Muro in Series on Thought Leaders
An educational media website dedicated to broadcasting the advice and insights of the world’s leading thinkers features our Founder and Executive Director Layli Miller-Muro.
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Brave Mother Now Faces Homelessness
A mother’s fight to keep her children safe and sheltered underscores challenges facing undocumented victims of crime in the United States.
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Al Jazeera Features Tahirih in Series on Forced Marriage in the United States
Tahirih is featured this week in a four-part Al Jazeera America series on forced marriage in the United States.
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Immigrants Live in ‘Double Shadow’ of Domestic Violence
Deysi Gonzalez’s diary begins with this sentence: “On July 3, 2002, I met the man I thought would be the love of my life.” Instead, she continues in neat Spanish script, the handsome acquaintance who courted her in Guatemala turned into a possessive bully who stalked and beat her.