Guest blogger: Cristian Urzola, student, University of San Francisco School of Law As immigration enforcement intensifies under the current administration, something deeper than fear is spreading through American communities---mistrust. Not only undocumented immigrants, but also teachers, pastors, social workers, legal advocates, and even immigration judges themselves are beginning to question
Guest blogger: Dallin Nielsen, law student, University of San Francisco I remember when my best friend in high school told me that his mom passed the US Citizenship test. He was excited and proud, and I felt the same for him. His mom was (and still is) a great person
Guest blogger: Ghazaleh Fotoohi Ghazvini, law student, University of San Francisco The United States has spent decades successfully marketing itself as a country where competing ideas can be argued in public. It allowed for criticism of politicians and funded many broadcast programs to spread the idea that the United States
Guest blogger: anonymous law student, University of San Francisco President Donald Trump’s administration promotes the rhetoric of “bringing down the hammer on human trafficking rings.”[1] This includes claims of locating 13,000 victims of human trafficking who came to the United States as unaccompanied minors during the Biden
Guest blogger: Henna Maiwand, law student, University of San Francisco Desperate hands grabbing at military aircraft. Families piling inside planes. Bodies falling from the sky. Mothers passing their babies over barbed wire to strangers in uniform. These were the images that defined August 2021, when the Afghans who risked their
Last Friday, ASAP filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging USCIS’s and EOIR’s implementation of the annual asylum fee. Last night, ASAP filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop USCIS nor EOIR from dismissing or denying asylum applications
Guest blogger: David Simmons, University of San Francisco law student: Before diving into the new proposed H-1B fee requirements, it is important to look generally at what most nonimmigrant visa fees carry. As of today, under the Travel State Government website, nonimmigrant visa application processing fees for non-petitioning applications (non-refundable)
Friends, This is an important statement from long-time activist, Edward Kissam: On the night of September 30, residents of a Chicago apartment building woke to the sounds of federal agents storming the building, some allegedly landing on the roof from a Blackhawk helicopter whirring above. Doors were kicked in, homes