DHS, July 2, 2024 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Council on Combating Gender-Based Violence (CCGBV) has two announcements to share with you. Building on DHS’s commitment to improving...
CMS, July 5, 2024 "President Biden’s recent decision to extend parole-in-place to the undocumented spouses of US citizens who entered the country without inspection is a significant first...
DHS OIG, July 3, 2024 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) did not adjudicate affirmative asylum applications in a timely manner to meet statutory timelines and to reduce its existing...
Miliyon Ethiopis, July 8, 2024 "I feel like I have been born again, after a U.S. immigration court made a remarkable ruling in my “statelessness” case in June . I hope that my case will...
Identical DHS and DOS media notes are here and here . Media coverage here , here , here , here , here and here . The intent is to curtail irregular migration through the Darién Gap . [I have...
ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy, Jan. 2024 - "The ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) wishes you a Happy New Year and looks forward to continuing to support all the work that you do to help immigrant youth and children in 2024. We wanted to provide a summary of key resources we updated and developed in 2023! As a reminder, the following written resources are available for free on our website. Please sign up for a free membership for continued access to CILA’s resources. Thank you for all the work that you do!
Links to CILA’s 2023 Written Resources
Working with Youth
Supporting Youth in the United States
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)
Asylum
Immigration Court Practice
Pro Bono Programs
Fostering Community
CILA’s blog, Together for Children’s Rights Updates, also provides regular updates on legal updates, shares useful resources, and uplifts children’s advocates. In 2023, CILA launched a new series of blog posts on Supporting Our Clients in the Interim by Rescreening for Relief. Learn more here about U visas, T visas based on labor trafficking along the journey, T visas based on labor trafficking in the United States, and VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) as the Self-Petitioner. The blog further includes monthly litigation updates from the Fifth Circuit, Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and Supreme Court with summaries of select cases. Check out all posts from this series here.
In addition to these written resources, recordings of many of CILA’s trainings are available online on the Advanced Trainings webpage, along with links to the slides and handouts from the trainings. For those in the Acacia Network, CILA further offers a set of resources in CILA’s Core Curriculum to help practitioners new the field. Moreover, in 2023, CILA added a webpage for state court judges to access resources related to SIJS.
Best,
The CILA Team
Laura Egan
(she/her)
Managing Attorney
Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA)
American Bar Association
Working remotely from San Antonio, TX.
(346) 444-2569 (main)
(346) 374-0980 (direct)
laura.egan@abacila.org
www.cilacademy.org"