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Neither Shaming nor Naming: New Data on the Confidential Visa Bans under Section 7031(c)

In a December 2024 request, then-Senator Ben Cardin asked the State Department to share unclassified data with Congress on the confidential side of an important U.S. sanctions program – the Section ...
Opinion
Human Rights FirstOpinion

Trump Administration’s Halt in Processing of All Asylum Applications is Punitive, Extreme, and Undermines Our National Interest

Human Rights First is appalled by the Trump administration’s extreme and punitive action to halt all immigration processing, including permanent residence and citizenship, and to re-review all ...
Opinion
Human Rights FirstOpinion

Human Rights First Comment on the Department of Homeland Security’s Interim Final Rule, “Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents,” Docket ...

Dear Secretary Noem,  Human Rights First submits this comment in opposition to the Interim Final Rule (IFR) promulgated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), titled “Removal of the Automatic ...
Human Rights First

Inhumane and Counterproductive

Five months after the Biden administration initiated its new bar on asylum, the policy continues to strand vulnerable people in places where they are targets of widespread kidnapping, torture, and ...
Human Rights First

New Report Documents Decades of Harm to Refugees on the Basis of a Technical Filing Requirement, Urgently Calls For Its Repeal

NEW YORK – Human Rights First today released a new report documenting the harms that the one-year filing deadline ban has inflicted on tens of thousands of refugees for decades, including deportation ...