U.S.-Mexico Border

CGRS Director Professor Karen Musalo joined refugee and human rights law experts in a letter urging Congress to reject proposals that would effectively dismantle the U.S. asylum system.

We joined a statement to Congress expressing extreme concern over proposals that would devastate the U.S. asylum process and harm asylum seekers and other vulnerable immigrants.

This memo outlines the ways in which the legislative proposals advanced by Senators Lankford and Cotton during budget negotiations would violate U.S. obligations to refugees under international law.

We joined a letter to President Biden urging the administration to reject funding and policy proposals that would eviscerate access to asylum.

This letter condemns the Biden administration's expansion of Title 42 and calls on the United States and all signatory countries of the Los Angeles Declaration to reverse course and ensure the humane reception of Venezuelans and others seeking safety in the region.

This letter condemns the Biden administration's expansion of Title 42 and calls on the United States and all signatory countries of the Los Angeles Declaration to reverse course and ensure the humane reception of Venezuelans and others seeking safety in the region.

We joined a letter to President Biden, President Lopez Obrador, and Prime Minister Trudeau, urging them to fulfill the commitment made in the LA Declaration on Migration and Protection and center human rights, humanitarian protection, and access to asylum for individuals fleeing persecution.

Nos unimos a una carta al presidente Biden, al presidente López Obrador y al primer ministro Trudeau, pidiendo que cumplir el compromiso asumido en la Declaración de Los Ángeles sobre Migración y Protección y centrar los derechos humanos, la protección humanitaria y el acceso al asilo.

On the week of President Biden's inauguration, this op-ed calls on the president to fulfill his promises to people seeking safety, restart asylum at the border, and turn the page on Trump-era cruelty.

This article describes a letter sent by 182 organizations, urging the Trump administration to reverse its Title 42 policy, which allows border agents to summarily expel asylum seekers under the pretext of the pandemic.