By Juan Gomez: Ahead of the 2020 election, President Biden spent months on the campaign trail decrying President Trump’s punitive and inhumane approach to immigration. Yet Biden’s immigration policies mirror those of his predecessor, undermining hope among immigrant advocates and families that a new administration…
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…
Policymakers left immigrants behind with harsh immigration tactics and by denying them the health, nutrition, economic, and educational supports they need to survive.
This brief details the many ways in which immigrant families have been left behind during the pandemic and provides recommendations on how the federal government can be proactive in meeting the needs of immigrants and their families.
CLASP submitted these comments on October 13, 2020, to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security calling on the agency to withdraw the proposed rules in their entirety.
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…