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March 23, 2023 | Testimony/Comments | Juliana Zhou

CLASP Urges USCIS to Withdraw Proposed Immigration Fee Increases

CLASP submitted a public comment in response to USCIS’s proposed changes to the immigration fee schedule. We applauded the agency keeping important fee waivers and adding new fee exemptions for humanitarian programs, but voiced our concern about the harmful impacts of immigration fee increases for low-income and other vulnerable…

February 17, 2023 | Testimony/Comments | Alejandra Londono Gomez

CLASP Recommendations to the White House Task Force on New Americans

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is pleased that the Biden Administration is re-establishing the White House Task Force on New Americans. This critical interagency task force aims to ensure that immigrants–including those newly arrived and those who have long-established roots in the…

November 23, 2022 | Testimony/Comments | Alycia Hardy

CLASP urges U.S. Department of Education to strengthen Public Service Loan Forgiveness program regulations

CLASP submits this comment urging the U.S. Department of Education to revise and strengthen the regulations of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program to ensure that all early childhood educators working in licensed, regulated, and registered settings—including for-profit and non-profit settings and family child…

July 26, 2022 | Testimony/Comments | Wendy Cervantes

CLASP Statement for the Record House Committee on the Judiciary Markup of H.R. 2920, American Families United Act July 27, 2022

CLASP submitted this statement for the record to the House Committee on the Judiciary for the July 27, 2022 markup of the American Families United Act (H.R. 2920). The bill would expand discretion to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General in removal and…

July 19, 2022 | Testimony/Comments

Child Care Community Letter Calling for Child Care in Reconciliation

CLASP, along with nearly 100 national organizations and more than 5,000 child care providers, parents, early learning advocates, and individuals, signs on to a letter that highlights the urgent need to ensure the reconciliation package includes critical investments for child care.

July 13, 2022 | Testimony/Comments

CLASP Supports Washington State’s 1332 Waiver Application to Remove Federal Barriers to Health Coverage for Immigrants

CLASP submitted a public comment in support of Washington State’s request to the federal government to allow all Washington residents, regardless of immigration status, to access health coverage through the state’s Washington Healthplanfinder website: In Washington State today, many immigrants go without critical health care…

April 26, 2022 | Testimony/Comments | Elizabeth Lower-Basch

CLASP Responds to Proposed Rulemaking, Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility, DHS Docket No. USCIS-2021-0013

Our immigration policies should not discourage immigrants and their family members from seeking physical or mental health care, nutrition, or housing benefits for which they are eligible. Extensive evidence demonstrates that the 2019 public charge rule generated widespread fear and confusion that caused immigrant families…

February 8, 2022 | Testimony/Comments

CLASP and Organizations Urge the Passage of BBB with a Pathway to Citizenship

CLASP is joined by over 70 national, state, and local organizations in calling on Senate Leadership and the Biden-Harris Administration to pass the Build Back Better (BBB) Act with a pathway to citizenship by any means possible, including by disregarding the parliamentarian’s opinion.

January 25, 2022 | Testimony/Comments | Juan Carlos Gomez

CLASP Responds to the Request for Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families

CLASP, along with First Focus on Children, Children’s Defense Fund, The Children’s Partnership, and Save the Children, submitted this comment on January 24, 2022 in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) request for public input in supporting the work of the Interagency…

January 13, 2022 | Testimony/Comments | Juliana Zhou

CLASP Responds to Visas: Ineligibility Based on Public Charge Grounds; DOS Docket No. DOS-2021-0034

By Juliana Zhou and Elizabeth Lower-Basch 

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