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Asylum Claims for Individuals Fleeing Climate Change or Environmental Disasters: Making the Best Use of Existing Legal Frameworks
This document summarizes CGRS's practice advisory on Analyzing Asylum Claims for Individuals Fleeing Climate Change or Environmental Disasters, which outlines ways in which climate-displaced individuals may be able to avail themselves of protection under U.S. law and identifies considerations for advocates arguing for eligibility within the existing asylum framework.
Climate Change and Cross-Border Displacement: What the Courts, the Administration, and Congress Can Do to Improve Options for the United States
This paper examines seven existing and potential legal and policy options for improving the United States’ response to people fleeing across international borders in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and disasters.
Civil Society Organizations Across the Americas Condemn US Government Expansion of Title 42 and Regional Restrictions to Asylum Access; Sound the Alarm on Growing Humanitarian Crisis
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.
Civil Society Organizations Welcome Introduction of House Resolution to Restore the Rule of Law in Guatemala
CGRS joined U.S. civil society organizations in this letter welcoming the House Resolution on Guatemala introduced on November 16, 2022 by Representatives Norma Torres, Albio Sires, Chuy Garcia, Jim McGovern, and Joaquin Castro.
Joint Letter to Presidents Biden and Lopez Obrador, and Prime Minister Trudeau
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.
Asylum and the Three Little Words that Can Spell Life or Death
This piece describes how the Justice Department's immigration appeals tribunal has "upended law, policy, and sheer logic" to stack the deck against Central American refugees and calls on the Biden administration to right the course.
Asylum Seekers, Advocates Urge Garland to End Trump's Cruel Policies Towards Survivors
This op-ed calls on Attorney General Merrick Garland to vacate the Trump-era Matter of A-B- ruling, which undermined access to asylum for survivors of domestic violence and gang brutality.
One Quick Asylum Fix: How Garland Can Help Domestic Violence Survivors
This op-ed calls on Attorney General Merrick Garland to vacate the Trump-era Matter of A-B- ruling, which undermined access to asylum for survivors of domestic violence and gang brutality.
El Salvador: Root Causes and Just Asylum Policy Responses
The article discusses conditions in El Salvador which lead to forced migration, critiques U.S. asylum policy, details measures that have resulted in the denial of protection, provides modest reform proposals, and ends with recommendations for addressing the root causes of migration.
Limiting Customs and Border Protection’s Detention of People Who Are Pregnant, Postpartum and/or Nursing, and Infants
We joined a letter to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) demanding they uphold the reproductive rights of migrants.
