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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…

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 

October 21, 2021 | Testimony/Comments | Renato Rocha

DHS Docket No. USCIS-2021-0013; Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility

By Renato Rocha and Elizabeth Lower-Basch

August 23, 2021 | Testimony/Comments | Jessi Russell

CLASP Responds to Reinstatement of HUD’s Discriminatory Effects Standard, Docket No. FR-6251-P-01

Standardized enforcement of the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) long-held discriminatory effects liability is necessary to uncover policies and practices that have an unjustified discriminatory effect—regardless of intent—and legally require that the practice be replaced.

July 16, 2021 | Testimony/Comments | Parker Gilkesson

CLASP Responds to Identifying Barriers in USDA Programs and Services; Advancing Racial Justice and Equity and Support for Underserved Communities at USDA, Docket No. USDA-2021-0006

By Parker Gilkesson

July 7, 2021 | Testimony/Comments

CLASP Responds to Methods and Leading Practices for Advancing Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through Government, OMB Doc. No. 2021-09109

By CLASP, the Community Partnership Group (CPG), and New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) Changemakers 

May 21, 2021 | Testimony/Comments | Renato Rocha

CLASP Response to Identifying Barriers Across U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Benefits and Services, DHS Docket No. USCIS-2021-004

By Renato Rocha and Elizabeth Lower-Basch

October 30, 2020 | Testimony/Comments | Renato Rocha

CLASP Response to Affidavit of Support on Behalf of Immigrants, DHS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0023

CLASP responded to affidavit of support on behalf of immigrants, DHS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0023. 

July 17, 2020 | Testimony/Comments | Rosa M. García

CLASP Public Comments Opposing Interim Final Rule on Eligibility of Higher Education Students for CARES Act Funding

In response to the Education Department's interim final rule precluding DACA, TPS, and DED recipients and undocumented students from CARES ACT funding, CLASP submitted comments opposing it in its entirety and urging the department to promptly withdraw it.

July 15, 2020 | Testimony/Comments | Juan Carlos Gomez

CLASP Public Comment on EOIR Docket No. 18-0002, Public Comment Opposing Proposed Rules on Asylum, and Collection of Information OMB Control Number 1615-0067

CLASP submitted these comments on July 15, 2020, to the Executive Office of Immigration Review, Department of Justice, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security opposing the proposed asylum regulations in their entirety and calling on the agencies to withdraw…

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