ILAP joins 263 organizations calling on the Biden administration and Congress to firmly reject all anti-immigrant policies in funding negotiations, including proposals to further restrict asylum, expand expedited removal, detain families, and revive Title 42.
Read MoreILAP calls for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to continue providing interpreters at asylum interviews for non-English speakers who cannot find or afford their own interpreters.
Read MoreILAP joins Human Rights First and others in denouncing proposals seeking to eliminate or reduce asylum protections. The joint letter urges the Biden administration to fulfill its promise of restoring the U.S. asylum system.
Read MoreILAP joins the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) in calling for immediate action to expand the automatic extension of work authorization for immigrants with pending work permit renewal applications.
Read MoreThe Women’s Refugee Commission releases a report featuring New York City and Portland, Maine about supporting people seeking asylum. ILAP's Senior Project Attorney Catherine N. Lindgren and Immigrant Children’s Project Attorney Maggie Loeffelholz were interviewed for the report.
Read MoreILAP joins the African Communities Together (ACT) and the Temporary Protected Status Deferred Enforced Departure Administrative Advocacy Coalition (TPS-DED AAC) in commending the Biden administration’s decision to extend and redesignate TPS for Sudan.
Read MoreILAP applauds Governor Janet Mills’ Executive Order directing the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future to develop a plan to establish Maine’s first Office for New Americans.
Read MoreFollowing the U.S. District Court’s ruling that the Biden administration’s asylum ban is unlawful, ILAP joins over 200 organizations in urging the administration to accept the court’s decision and drop its defense of the inhumane policy.
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