ILAP responds to the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the Biden Administration to end the Remain in Mexico program, a senseless and racist border policy that forces asylum seekers to wait in dangerous conditions in Mexico while trying to exercise their right to seek asylum in the U.S.
Read MoreMaine immigrant rights groups reflect about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on its 10th anniversary and continue calls for a path to permanent citizenship for DACA recipients and all undocumented people.
Read MoreILAP and the other authors of the recently published report, Lives in Limbo: How the Boston Asylum Office Fails Asylum Seekers, commend Congress for calling on the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General to immediately investigate bias and the resulting low asylum grant rates in the Boston Asylum Office.
Read MoreILAP is deeply disappointed in the Senate parliamentarian’s ruling that citizenship cannot be included in the budget reconciliation process. This is a setback, but not the end. Our elected representatives must do everything in their power to ensure the inclusion of pathways to citizenship this year.
Read MoreILAP is pleased to see immediate action by the Biden Administration, including ending the Trump-era public charge wealth test and introducing the US Citizenship Act. However, there is still urgent action needed to reverse anti-asylum policies and end the criminalization of immigrants.
Read MoreILAP, along with the ACLU of Maine and the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic (RHRC) at the University of Maine School of Law, are suing ICE for information about its detention activities in Maine.
Read MoreThe ACLU of Maine, the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic at the University of Maine School of Law, and ILAP have filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against USCIS, seeking to compel the agency’s Boston Sub-Office and Newark Asylum Office to release information about how they assess asylum requests.
Read MoreOn April 22, the President issued an Executive Order that bars certain immigrants, including parents, siblings, and adult children of US Citizens as well as spouses and children of lawful permanent residents, from entering the United States as immigrants for at least the next sixty days. ILAP strongly condemns this order.
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