Immigration
The US Program’s immigration work focuses on reforming harsh, outdated, and ineffective detention and deportation policies to ensure they take into account family unity, flight from persecution, and labor considerations that draw immigrants to the United States. We have exposed the crimes and unsafe working conditions that unauthorized immigrants are too afraid to report out of fear of being deported, the risks of violence back home for those denied due process to seek protection from US deportation, and the devastating impact on millions of people—citizens as well as non-citizens—whose families are torn apart due to inflexible and unfair immigration policies.
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A Roadmap for Re-imagining Public Safety in the United States
14 Recommendations on Policing, Community Investment, and Accountability
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Deportation with a Layover
Failure of Protection under the US-Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement
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US: ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program Harming Children
Families Seeking Asylum Exposed to Violence, Illness, Trauma
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US: End Misguided Public Health Border Expulsions
Biden Administration Returning Asylum Seekers to Harm
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Human Rights Watch Letter in Support of the California VISION Act
HRW Strongly Supports CA AB 937, the Voiding Inequality and Seeking Inclusion for Our Immigrant Neighbors (VISION) Act
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Will US Repeat History by Failing Haitians Again?
End Sweeping Border Expulsions, Re-designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status
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No, It’s Not the Same Old Thing at the Border
US Should Continue to Move Toward a More Humane Policy
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US: Take New Approach at Mexico Border
Video Shows Family Separated under Trump Policy Have Reason to Hope