To give! Donations cover submission fees for aid workers ($575/piece), paralegals and legal coordinators. ICE has a well-known history of carrying out enforcement actions late at night or during holidays, making it much more difficult for some community members to access due process. The FreeTheYuba11 coalition will continue to work with Northern California`s robust legal service provider infrastructure to ensure that all those detained at the YCJ have access to legal representation and a chance at liberty. Immigrants who survived ICE detention at Yuba County Jail continue to call on Secretary Mayorkas and ICE to immediately terminate the contract. The CGRS is a consultant to the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and Sidley Austin LLP. Claimants are legal aid organizations representing refugee claimants – Pangea Legal Services, Dolores Street Community Services, Inc., Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) and Capital Area Immigrants` Rights (CAIR) Coalition. A number of groups and organizations filed amicus curiae briefs in support of the application for an injunction, including Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), the Young Center for Immigrant Children`s Rights, public counsel, immigration law professors, former immigration judges, and members of the Immigration Appeals Board. 17 cities and 22 states. Media contact: Laila Ayub, projectanar.info@gmail.com Roxana Moussavian, roxana@pangealegal.org PACER information on the parties and their appearances can be found at: www.courtlistener.com/docket/18763207/parties/pangea-legal-services-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/ Sanctions for employers and companies for illegal anti-union behaviour Organizations providing a wide range of services to immigrants The Court blocks `illegal death` for Asylum » Trump Rule | January 8, 2021 “It is unscrupulous that ICE will repopulate Yuba during the holiday season, a time when families are supposed to be together,” the FreeTheYuba 11 coalition said.
“This situation could have been completely avoided if DHS Secretary Mayorkas had terminated the contract between the Yuba County Sheriff`s Department and ICE when the facility was holding 0 people in custody, as 25 members of Congress urged him to do more than two months ago. Meanwhile, the Sheriff`s Department collected more than $1.4 million from ICE for two months for an empty facility. If Minister Mayokas does not act quickly, more community members will suffer serious harm or even die from COVID-19 and inhumane prison conditions. “Trump Illegal `Rushed` Asylum Rule, Orgs Say,” Alyssa Aquino, Law360, December 22, 2020 Media contact: Jesus Chavez, jchavez@centrolegal.org (559) 213-6841 On December 21, 2020, Pangea Legal Services and other legal entities filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of refugees seeking to enter the United States to obtain asylum. The complainants alleged that DHS unlawfully changed asylum rules, thereby limiting eligibility for asylum, making it more difficult to meet the definition of a refugee, qualify for an asylum test, and then qualify for asylum. The plaintiffs argued that such changes would thwart their organizational tasks and divert resources from litigation. Represented by Sidley Austin, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and the Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University of California, the plaintiffs sought attorneys` fees and a permanent injunction to prevent implementation of the amended rules. The project also focused on a major congressional lobbying campaign and created an initial infrastructure to distribute vital financial and legal support to Afghan refugees. The coalition is primarily comprised of BIPOC and/or queer lawyers and Afghan organizers currently housed at Pangea Legal Services.
Expanding Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing services. Those who occupied the SF Golden Gate Bridge will hold a follow-up press conference with the Bay Area Coalition for Economic Justice and Citizenship for All: Pangea II v. DHS – Application for Injunction, Injunction and Statement of Reasons; Memorandum of supporting points and authorities, December 23, 2020. Important: Any recording, copying or retransmission of a remote hearing is absolutely prohibited. See General Order 58 and the Court`s opinion on press and public access to trials. On January 8, 2021, three days before the rule was scheduled to go into effect, U.S. District Judge James Donato issued an order granting our plaintiffs` request for a national injunction. The rule is therefore not currently in force. The case is still pending in the Northern District of California.
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