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  Practitioner's Toolkit on Cancellation of Removal for Lawful Permanent Residents

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center

  Created on behalf of the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC), the toolkit is a resource for immigration attorneys representing lawful permanent residents who are facing removal from the United States.

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  To File or Not to File a Notice to Appear: Improving the Government's Use of Prosecutorial Discretion

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic

  A report by the Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic that highlights the rate and circumstances surrounding Notice to Appear (NTA) filings at the immigration court.

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  Behind Closed Doors: An Overview of DHS Restrictions on Access to Counsel

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and American Immigration Council

  The Center collaborated with LAC to produce a white paper addressing the law, policy and practice surrounding right to counsel in non-removal contexts before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). To reach this end, students at the Center reviewed an internal legal memorandum prepared by the American Immigration Lawyers Association and LAC; a detailed memo prepared by the Center analyzing individual attorney experiences with restrictions on access before DHS; and conduct additional research pertaining to access to counsel. The white paper articulates the legal and policy standards governing an individual’s right to counsel in various non-removal settings in order to ... Read more

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  Immigration Relief for Victims of Abuse and Domestic Violence

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and Centre County Women's Resource Center

  Advocates and attorneys who work with victims of domestic violence need to understand the dynamics of power and control and how they affect the safety of their clients. This understanding is especially important in working with non-citizen victims who often face additional hurdles compared to American citizens. The Center for Immigrants' Rights has published "Immigration Relief for Victims of Abuse and Domestic Violence," a toolkit to help practitioners in representing immigrant victims of domestic abuse.

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  Leveling the Playing Field: Reforming the H-2B Program to Protect Guestworkers and U.S. Workers

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and National Guestworker Alliance

  This report highlights cases of exploitation from Texas to Tennessee, and calls for four indispensible reforms that would end employer abuse and protect both guest workers and U.S. workers: (1) Guaranteeing guest workers the right to organize without fear of retaliation; (2) Prohibiting employers from using guest workers as cheap, exploitable alternatives to U.S. workers; (3) Eliminating debt servitude and other elements of human trafficking in the program; and (4) Subjecting employers to meaningful government enforcement and community oversight.

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  The NSEERS Effect: A Decade of Racial Profiling, Fear, and Secrecy

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and Rights Working Group

  n the wake of the tragic attacks of September 11, 2011, the landscape of immigration law and policy in the United States changed dramatically as the government scrambled to create counterterrorism programs to respond to potential national security threats. One program is the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) or "special registration" that was initiated by the Department of Justice in 2002 and inherited by the Department of Homeland Security in 2003. NSEERS served as a tool that allowed the government to systematically target Arabs, Middle Easterners, Muslims, and South Asians from designated countries for advanced scrutiny. ...The purpose of ... Read more

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  The 9/11 Effect and its Legacy on U.S. Immigration Laws: Essays, Remarks, and Photographs

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and Penn State School of International Affairs

  An anthology of 9/11 reflections released today by the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights and the Penn State School of International Affairs concentrates on the impact of the attacks on the lives of immigrants and immigration policy, providing both a report card and ideas for the future.

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  The One-Year Asylum Deadline and the BIA: No Protection, No Process

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Cliinic, Human Rights First, and National Immigrant Justice Center

  The right to seek asylum from persecution is a fundamental and long-recognized human right. The United States committed to protecting refugees in 1967 when it signed the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and later enacted legislation to incorporate the Protocol’s key provisions into domestic law. Despite these commitments, in 1996 Congress enacted a filing deadline for asylum applications which has resulted in potentially denying protections to thousands of legitimate refugees.

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  Up Against the Asylum Clock: Fixing the Broken Employment Authorization Asylum Clock

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and American Immigration Council's Legal Action Center

  The Center for Immigrants' Rights at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law (Center) and the American Immigration Council’s Legal Action Center (LAC) collaborated to write this report on the asylum clock. The goals of the report are: (1) to identify problems with the government’s management of the Employment Authorization Document (EAD) asylum clock; and (2) suggest a new policy for operation of the EAD asylum clock. The report incorporates information obtained by the Center and the LAC and analyzes information from attorneys, organizations, and individuals about their experiences with the “asylum clock.”

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  NSEERS: The Consequences of America's Efforts to Secure its Borders

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

  On behalf of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the Center for Immigrants’ Rights (Center) at the Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law prepared a white paper on the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS or “special registration”). The white paper provides a legal and policy analysis of the NSEERS program, and recommendations for a new administration. In conducting the research, students at the Center interviewed immigration attorneys who have represented individuals impacted by the NSEERS program; and advocates and policymakers who have spoken or written about the NSEERS program in the larger context of United States immigration and counterterrorism ... Read more

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  Playing Politics at the Bench: A White Paper on the Justice Department's Investigation into the Hiring Practices of Immigration Judges

  Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

  On behalf of the National Lawyers Guild National Immigration Project (NLGNIP), the Center for Immigrants' Rights (Center) at the Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law prepared a white paper facilitated by a government report on the politicized hiring of immigration judges. This white paper is based findings by the Department of Justice‘s Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector General in their investigation of the illegal hiring of immigration judges during a period in the George W. Bush Administration. The recommendations presented here are a product of this analysis and extensive research on data produced by individuals ... Read more