Uighur asylum seekers in Virginia thought they would be safe here. But new rules delay work permits, draining savings and risking survival.
Marcia Brown
Marcia Brown is a former Prospect writing fellow who is now a correspondent for The Capitol Forum, a subscription-based corporate investigation outlet. She has also written for The Intercept, The New Republic, and The Progressive.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Canadian Court Chooses Human Rights Over Controversial U.S. Border Agreement
A judge holds that banning asylum seekers who first entered the U.S. violates Canada’s Charter of Rights.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Can a Pipeline Company Invoke Eminent Domain? A Louisiana Court Ducks.
The company must pay property owners for its abuses, but its ability to take property in the cause of the ‘public good’—however tenuous—remains intact.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Trump Administration Is Defying the Supreme Court on DACA
On Monday, the government legally had to begin accepting new DACA applications, but advocates, legal experts, and Senate Democrats worry that they are slow-walking processing of new applicants.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Public Comment Battle to Save American Asylum
A new rule would greatly restrict asylum. Advocates are fighting back with public comments.
Posted inEducation in America
A Win for the Administrative Procedure Act
The government agreed to rescind its latest rules governing international student visas that would have banned students taking online classes from staying in the U.S.
Posted inEducation in America
Trump’s War on International Students
New ICE guidelines for international student visas may signal an administration desperate to shut out as many immigrants as possible before the clock runs out.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s War on Asylum Seekers Struck Down by a Trump-Appointed Judge
Yet again, a conservative judge ruled that nativist zeal absent proper legal procedure didn’t make for a compelling case.
Posted inWorking in America
Cleveland’s Plain Dealer: 50 Years of Union Busting
The Plain Dealer union didn’t die because of industry changes—Advance Publications killed it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Fighting to Release Prisoners From a COVID-19 Death Sentence
The Bureau of Prisons knows they need to release people to stop the spread of COVID-19. So why aren’t they?