#Asylum

Lindsey Graham

LindseyGrahamSC

In a matter of weeks, President Joe Biden has rolled back a substantial part of the gains it took years for the Trump Administration to achieve in the fight to

Latitude Law - Activist Lawyers Since 2007

LatitudeLaw

As you may have seen, on 10 Dec the Home Office quietly published a new Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules. This isn't big news (the rules are amended

Yael Schacher

YaelSchacher

The Supreme Court has just ruled that asylum seekers can't use habeas corpus petitions to stop deportation when they never got a fair hearing on their claim. THIS IS JUST

Zoe Gardner

ZoeJardiniere

Pondering whether to make a serious point related to Tommy Robinson or just to sneer that it's good riddance to foul garbage... OK here we go.1. Doesn't take a genius,

Siobhán McGuirk

s_mcguirk

Massively disappointing that @AmericanAnthro has cancelled *all* #RaisingOurVoices2020 Talk Back sessions. Why not set Zoom security settings high & limit entry so that Name+Email must match event registrants? Not even

Colin Yeo

ColinYeo1

On the face of it, this change to the Immigration Rules looks like a serious breach of the Refugee Convention: declaring asylum claims inadmissible if pass through a 'safe' country

Matthias Luecke

mLuecke_Kiel

1/nSome years back, nearly all political parties in thought could reasonably receive 200,000 refugees per year. For some, this was an upper limit; for others, a lower limit

Liam.

parcelorogues

What happened in George Sq tonight was largely without precedent. There are refugee/asylum seeker solidarity demos in Glasgow all the time. They have never, until tonight, been opposed - let

Jonathan Blitzer

JonathanBlitzer

The Trump policy closing the border to asylum seekers during the pandemic (Title 42) put Biden in a bind from day 1. The policy was adopted in bad faith, w

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BobSproggit

This letter from @pritipatel is bullshit. By mentioning the Dublin Regualtions (Dublin III reg) she admits she is referring to aslyum seekers, where we can send them back to an

Jeff Crisp

JFCrisp

UK:Good to see the growing momentum behind the 'safe and legal routes to asylum' movement. But I fear that we will struggle to make much of an impact on government

Jennifer Rankin

JenniferMerode

EU rejects British plan for post-Brexit return of asylum seekers.Short story: The UK proposed a version of EU Dublin rules outside the EU. Member states said no. Longer story -https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/20/eu-rejects-brit

Camilo Montoya-Galvez

camiloreports

A lot of folks (with different policy views) seem surprised that Pres-elect Biden and his advisers are saying their efforts to terminate Pres. Trump's immigration policies will not be instantaneous.I

Liam Kirkaldy

HolyroodLiam

Some good news this week. You may remember Holyrood reporting that at least 60 families awaiting asylum applications across Scotland were left unable to access the internet or school resources

CBrownImmLaw

cbrownimmlaw

This case is garbage: a thread. The Board issued a decision in Matter of H-L-S-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 228 (BIA 2021). In this case, the Board picks a fact pattern

Paul Farrell

FarrellPF

It's taken *seven years* - so long that the original lead plaintiff actually died - for the OAIC to rule on the immigration department's catastrophic data breach where it published

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