The Tahirih Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging two Department of Homeland Security rules that will deny people seeking asylum access to a work permit.

The administration published a final version of the transit asylum ban, after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision on June 30, 2020, forcing the […]

On Human Rights Day, the administration finalized regulations that will overturn U.S. asylum law—making it effectively impossible for people fleeing persecution to obtain protection in the United States. The rule […]

The outgoing administration proposed two rules that would speed up the deportation machine that immigration courts have become, sending immigrant survivors of gender-based violence back into danger. The first rule […]

Over the past four years, policy after policy, fueled by racism and xenophobia, have chipped away at legal protections for immigrant survivors— building an invisible wall that has denied access and […]

On October 19, 2020, the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges against the administration’s policy ‘Remain in Mexico’, which has forced more than 60,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico […]

The University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic, with a coalition of organizations including Tahirih, filed an amicus brief on September 25, 2020 in the Southern District of […]