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Jurisprudential Guides Notes
Jurisprudential Guides Notes
On
July 28, 2022, the Chairperson identified the following Refugee Appeal Division decision as being a
Jurisprudential Guide:
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Decision TC1 05038 – The proper interpretation of the ‘generalized risk’ exception to protection found at subparagraph 97(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, in claims for protection involving allegations of gang-targeting or other acts of criminality.
On
December 22, 2020, the Chairperson identified the following Refugee Appeal Division decision as being a
Jurisprudential Guide.
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Decision MB8-00025 – This Jurisprudential Guide addresses, in applying Article 1E of the Refugee Convention, whether members should consider allegations of risk in a country of residence if they conclude that a refugee claimant has the rights and obligations which are attached to the possession of nationality in that country.
On
July 6, 2018, the Chairperson identified the following Refugee Appeal Division decision as being a
Jurisprudential Guide.
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Decision TB7-19851 – Nigeria – This Jurisprudential Guide addresses internal flight alternatives in major cities in south and central Nigeria for claimants fleeing non-state actors.
Revoked
The country documentation referenced in each of these decisions has been included in s.16 of the updated National Documentation Packages published on July 10, 2018.
On
July 20, 2017, the Chairperson identified the following Refugee Appeal Division decision as being
Jurisprudential Guides.
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Decision TB7-01837 – Pakistan – Whether the treatment experienced by Ahmadis in Pakistan amounts to persecution, whether state protection is available and whether there is a viable internal flight alternative.
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Decision MB6-01059/60 – India – Availability of an internal flight alternative in India for claimants from Punjab.
Revoked
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Decision TB6-11632 – China – Analysis of the efficacy of the Chinese national computer network known as the Golden Shield Project and its impact on whether a person wanted by the authorities can exit China via an airport using a genuine passport.
Revoked
The country documentation referenced in each of these decisions has been included in s.16 of the updated National Documentation Packages published on July 20, 2017.
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UNITED STATES
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Accessed Date:
14 November 2012
Title:
United States of America. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2019.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
March 2020
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
United States. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
16 July 2025
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Présentation des États-Unis
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
6 February 2025
Accessed Date:
9 May 2025
Title:
United States. Freedom in the World 2025.
Accessed Date:
29 July 2025
Title:
United States of America. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2025.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
April 2025
Accessed Date:
9 May 2025
Title:
United States. World Report 2025: Events of 2024.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2025
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
Puerto Rico. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2025.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
April 2025
Accessed Date:
9 May 2025
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: United States of America
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/36/USA/1
Date of Document:
13 August 2020
Accessed Date:
8 January 2021
Title:
Compilation on the United States of America
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/36/USA/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
11 March 2020
Accessed Date:
8 January 2021
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on the United States of America
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/36/USA/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
6 March 2020
Accessed Date:
8 January 2021
Title:
Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Date of Document:
7 December 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States. Chapter IV.A: Situation of Human Rights in the Region. Annual Report 2024.
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Date of Document:
8 May 2025
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Fifth periodic report submitted by the United States of America under article 40 of the Covenant pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2020
Date of Document:
11 November 2021
Accessed Date:
19 January 2022
Title:
United States of America. Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee: 139th session, 9 October – 3 November 2023.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
September 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Whether an individual can apply for a US visa at a US embassy in a country where they do not have legal status; interview and recording of fingerprints requirements (August 2014-May 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
4 May 2015
Accessed Date:
11 March 2016
Title:
The Immigrant Visa Process
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
10 January 2023
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
25 January 2024
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: United States of America
Code:
RSCAS/EUDO-CIT-CR 2015/13
Source:
European University Institute. European University Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
July 2015
Accessed Date:
25 February 2016
Title:
208.4: Filing the application. Title 8: Aliens and Nationality. Code of Federal Regulations.
Source:
United States. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of Document:
27 June 2025
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Loss of permanent residence status, including whether it is automatically lost as a result of remaining outside the US for a period of time; whether proof of such a loss is issued by authorities; procedure for cancelling permanent residence...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
2 December 2016
Accessed Date:
15 March 2017
Title:
Information on the category C-18 Employment Authorization Card, including what it signifies, whether it can be renewed, and the requirements for renewal; whether it is possible for a US citizen to sponsor a foreign national spouse from within the...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 February 2016
Accessed Date:
15 March 2017
Title:
Circumstances in which US authorities seize an asylum claimant's passport and/or other identity documents, including whether this happens if a person is detained prior to their credible fear interview; whether the person is given a copy of the seize...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
28 April 2016
Accessed Date:
15 March 2017
Title:
Information on the meaning of 'Alien Registration Card/Permanent Resident Card Prior to 1998,' including any associated status or documentation, including Temporary Protected Status (2015-February 2017)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
10 February 2017
Accessed Date:
23 March 2017
Title:
Representing Statelessness Before U.S. Immigration Authorities. First Edition.
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
August 2017
Accessed Date:
5 March 2018
Title:
Category (c)(9) on the Employment Authorization Document (EAD), including a description of the associated rights, procedures to obtain, maintain and renew such a status
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
2 June 2010
Accessed Date:
14 November 2012
Title:
Requirements and procedures for refugees who have been resettled to obtain permanent residence, including deadlines for claiming permanent residence for a refugee who is resettled (2018-November 2019)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
10 January 2020
Accessed Date:
28 January 2020
Title:
Citizenship and Immigration Statuses of the U.S. Foreign-Born Population. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
17 September 2024
Author:
Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Source:
United States. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of Document:
24 January 2025
Accessed Date:
9 May 2025
Title:
The Legality of DACA: Recent Litigation Developments
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
20 September 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
About parliament; Election results. United States of America: House of Representatives.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
About parliament; Election results. United States of America: Senate.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
9 May 2025
Title:
United States of America. Election for President of 5 November 2024.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
23 July 2025
Title:
United States of America – General Elections, 5 November 2024: ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission Final Report
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
11 April 2025
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
19th Annual Domestic Violence Counts Report
Source:
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Date of Document:
May 2025
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Human Rights Crisis: Abortion in the United States After Dobbs
Source:
Human Rights Watch et al.
Date of Document:
April 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Practice Advisory: The Child Status Protection Act
Source:
American Immigration Council
Date of Document:
5 February 2015
Accessed Date:
19 January 2021
Title:
Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
5 September 2024
Author:
William A. Kandel
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Access Denied: How Florida Judges Obstruct Young People's Ability to Obtain Abortion Care
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
9 February 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Fighting for Dignity: Incarcerated Women Speak
Source:
New York University School of Law. Brennan Center for Justice.
Date of Document:
20 October 2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
No US State Meets Child Rights Standards
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
7 September 2023
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024
Source:
Prison Policy Initiative
Date of Document:
5 March 2024
Author:
Aleks Kajstura; Wendy Sawyer
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, on his visit to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
15 April 2024
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Discrimination and Barriers to Well-Being: The State of the LGBTQI+ Community in 2022
Source:
Center for American Progress
Date of Document:
12 January 2023
Author:
Caroline Medina; Lindsay Mahowald
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
The Impact of 2024 Anti-Transgender Legislation on Youth
Source:
Williams Institute
Date of Document:
April 2024
Author:
Elana Redfield et al.
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Banning Medical Care and Legal Recognition for Transgender People. Under Fire Series: Report #5.
Source:
Movement Advancement Project
Date of Document:
September 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
“I Just Try to Make It Home Safe”: Violence and the Human Rights of Transgender People in the United States
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 November 2021
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
“They're Ruining People's Lives” Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
June 2025
Accessed Date:
23 July 2025
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
United States of America: Tier 1. Trafficking in Persons Report 2024.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
24 June 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Criminal Victimization, 2023
Source:
United States. Department of Justice.
Date of Document:
September 2024
Author:
Susannah N. Tapp; Emilie J. Coen
Editor:
Kathryn A. Sweeney
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
In the Line of Fire: Human Rights and the U.S Gun Violence Crisis
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
12 September 2018
Accessed Date:
19 March 2019
Title:
Scars of Survival: Gun Violence and Barriers to Reparation in the USA
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
11 July 2019
Accessed Date:
16 January 2020
Title:
The Year in Hate and Extremism 2024
Source:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
QAnon. Mapping Militants Project.
Source:
Stanford University. Center for International Security and Cooperation.
Date of Document:
1 June 2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
How Antigovernment Extremists and QAnon took over the Southern Border
Source:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Date of Document:
8 August 2022
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
United States. Global Organized Crime Index 2023.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Is Venezuela's Tren de Aragua ‘Invading' the US?
Date of Document:
1 April 2024
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
DoD Instruction 1325.02: Desertion and Unauthorized Absence or Absence Without Leave
Source:
United States. Department of Defense.
Date of Document:
26 October 2021
Accessed Date:
18 January 2022
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on its visit to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
17 July 2017
Accessed Date:
17 January 2020
Title:
Freedom of Information Act Frequently Asked Questions
Source:
United States. Department of Justice.
Accessed Date:
4 April 2018
Title:
USA: Right the wrong; Decision time on Guantánamo
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
11 January 2021
Accessed Date:
18 January 2022
Title:
Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019 – Statistical Tables
Source:
United States. Department of Justice.
Date of Document:
December 2021
Editor:
Eric Hendrixson; Edrienne Su
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
Sixth periodic report submitted by the United States of America under article 19 of the Convention pursuant to the simplified reporting procedure, due in 2018
Source:
United Nations. Committee against Torture.
Date of Document:
5 April 2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement: Visit to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
26 September 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
The Death Penalty in 2024
Source:
Death Penalty Information Center
Date of Document:
19 December 2024
Author:
Robin M. Maher et al.
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
African Americans, Police Use of Force, and Human Rights in the United States
Code:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc.156/18
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Date of Document:
26 November 2018
Accessed Date:
17 January 2020
Title:
Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Practices
Source:
United States. Commission on Civil Rights.
Date of Document:
15 November 2018
Accessed Date:
17 January 2020
Title:
USA: Losing the Peace: U.S. Police failures to protect protesters from violence
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
6 November 2020
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
“Kettling” Protesters in the Bronx: Systemic Police Brutality and Its Costs in the United States
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
30 September 2020
Author:
Julie Ciccolini; Ida Sawyer
Editor:
Madeline de Figueiredo
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement
Source:
New York University School of Law. Brennan Centre for Justice.
Date of Document:
27 August 2020
Accessed Date:
18 January 2022
Title:
Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States
Source:
International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States
Date of Document:
March 2021
Accessed Date:
18 January 2022
Title:
United States. World Press Freedom Index 2025.
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Accessed Date:
7 August 2025
Title:
United States. Freedom on the Net 2024.
Editor:
Amelia Larson et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
United States. Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2024. Volume II: Annual Report of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Date of Document:
3 March 2025
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Bangladesh, Canada, Pakistan, United Kingdom, and United States: Registration procedures and documents of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ) [Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC), Ahmadiyya Muslim Association (AMA)] in Canada, the US and the UK, particularly for Ahmadis of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin (2020–December 2022)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 January 2023
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its mission to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
18 August 2016
Accessed Date:
25 January 2017
Title:
Most Black Americans Believe U.S. Institutions Were Designed To Hold Black People Back
Source:
Pew Research Center
Date of Document:
15 June 2024
Editor:
Claudia Deane et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty
Source:
Death Penalty Information Centre
Date of Document:
September 2020
Author:
Ngozi Ndulue et al.
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
United States of America. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
July 2020
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
United States of America. The Indigenous World 2025.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2025
Editor:
Dwayne Mamo et al.
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Indigenous justice in the USA: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
20 December 2024
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
United States of America: Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 107th Session, 8-30 August 2022
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
15 July 2022
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
Racial Discrimination in the United States: Human Rights Watch / ACLU Joint Submission Regarding the United States' Record Under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
8 August 2022
Author:
Anjana Malhotra et al.
Editor:
Alison Parker; Jamil Dakwar
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Fatal: The Resurgence of Anti-Muslim Hate. 2024 Civil Rights Report.
Source:
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Author:
Corey Saylor et al.
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Information received from the United States of America on follow-up to the concluding observations on its combined tenth to twelfth periodic reports
Code:
CERD/C/USA/FCO/10-12
Date of Document:
28 August 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined tenth to twelfth reports of the United States of America
Code:
CERD/C/USA/CO/10-12
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
21 September 2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on her visit to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
16 May 2024
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 September 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Basic Procedural Manual for Asylum Representation Affirmatively and in Removal Proceedings
Source:
National Immigrant Justice Center
Date of Document:
November 2022
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
The Department of Homeland Security's Authority to Expand Expedited Removal
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
6 April 2022
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
Asylum in the United States
Source:
American Immigration Council
Date of Document:
9 May 2025
Accessed Date:
7 August 2025
Title:
Whether immigration judges issue written reasons for decisions made in asylum claims; if this is the case, requirements and procedures for the claimant to request the written reasons, including if the claimant is outside the country
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
21 July 2014
Accessed Date:
16 March 2016
Title:
U.S. Refugee Admissions Program
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
20 January 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention
Source:
Physicians for Human Rights
Date of Document:
25 July 2024
Author:
Eunice Hyunhye Cho; Tessa Wilson
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Immigration Laws Regulating the Admission and Exclusion of Aliens at the Border
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
21 July 2020
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
Nigeria and United States: Requirements and procedures to obtain a US visitor's visa from the US Consulate in Abuja, including financial requirements and any special requirements for those travelling with dependents (2015-July 2019)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
22 July 2019
Accessed Date:
16 January 2020
Title:
Information on refugees resettled in the US by the UNHCR, including status documents provided; ability to study, work, access social security, and travel outside the US; impact of travel outside the US on residency status and ability to...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
5 April 2017
Accessed Date:
21 March 2018
Title:
“Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention
Source:
Harvard University; Physicians for Human Rights
Date of Document:
6 February 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
5 December 2024
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Period of authorized stay for holders of visitor visas (B1, B2 and B1/B2) (2016-February 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
6 February 2018
Accessed Date:
21 March 2018
Title:
Circumstances under which victims of domestic violence and gang violence are granted protection; protection offered to claimants who do not meet Refugee Convention grounds, but instead claim a risk to their life or a risk of torture, or cruel and unusual treatment (2016-August 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
18 October 2018
Accessed Date:
13 March 2019
Title:
Haiti and United States: Whether legal representation is required for persons who apply for asylum in the US; availability of legal aid for asylum applicants, particularly for Haitians, in the states of California, Florida, New Jersey and New York...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
6 June 2018
Accessed Date:
16 July 2018
Title:
The Trump Administration's “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Enforcement Policy
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
2 February 2021
Author:
William A. Kandel
Accessed Date:
18 January 2022
Title:
Removal proceedings pursuant to Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Sec. 237(a)(1)(A) of an accepted refugee and permanent resident, due to a finding of misrepresenting a material fact in an asylum claim; whether a decision to find someone...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 January 2019
Accessed Date:
13 March 2019
Title:
Code Red: The Fatal Consequences of Dangerously Substandard Medical Care in Immigration Detention
Source:
Human Rights Watch et al.
Date of Document:
20 June 2018
Editor:
Tara Tidwell Cullen et al.
Accessed Date:
19 March 2019
Title:
US Deporting Iraqis Without Valid Documents
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 December 2018
Accessed Date:
19 March 2019
Title:
“How Can You Throw Us Back?”: Asylum Seekers Abused in the US and Deported to Harm in Cameroon
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 February 2022
Editor:
Bill Frelick et al.
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
The withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture, including the rights of those granted this status, the validity period of this status, and whether it is renewable
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
2 February 2016
Accessed Date:
25 March 2019
Title:
Six-Week Report: Implementation of the Biden Administration's June 2024: “Securing the Border” Asylum Ban
Source:
Human Rights First et al.
Date of Document:
31 July 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and the United States: Requirements and procedures for Somali citizens to obtain identity documents, including passports, at Somali embassies in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Washington D.C. (2016-March 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 February 2018
Accessed Date:
22 March 2018
Title:
“They did not treat us like people”: Race and migration-related torture and other ill-treatment of Haitians seeking safety in the USA
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
22 September 2022
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
“We Need to Take Away Children” Zero Accountability Six Years After “Zero Tolerance”
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
December 2024
Author:
Michael Garcia Bochenek et al.
Editor:
Bede Sheppard et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
A Legacy Of Injustice: The U.S. Criminalization Of Migration
Source:
National Immigrant Justice Center
Date of Document:
23 July 2020
Accessed Date:
18 January 2022
Title:
Texas National Guard Firing Pepper Spray Projectiles at Migrants
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 September 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Pushed into Harm's Way: Forced returns of unaccompanied migrant children to danger by the USA and Mexico
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
11 June 2021
Accessed Date:
19 January 2022
Title:
The Law of Immigration Detention: A Brief Introduction. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
1 September 2022
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Programs
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
15 January 2025
Accessed Date:
22 January 2025
Title:
Asylum Processing at the Border: Legal Basics
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
19 March 2021
Accessed Date:
19 January 2022
Title:
Behind Closed Doors: Abuse and Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention
Source:
American Civil Liberties Union; Physicians for Human Rights
Date of Document:
June 2021
Author:
Eunice Hyunhye Cho et al.
Accessed Date:
19 January 2022
Title:
The Biden Administration's Immigration Enforcement Priorities: Background and Legal Considerations
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
9 December 2022
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Certain Countries: Recent Litigation Developments
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
8 March 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
Source:
United States of America. The White House.
Date of Document:
4 June 2025
Accessed Date:
22 July 2025
Title:
Fact Sheet: Immigration Detention in the United States
Source:
National Immigration Forum
Date of Document:
January 2021
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
The United States. Dismantling Detention: International Alternatives to Detaining Immigrants.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
November 2021
Editor:
Bill Frelick et al.
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Immigrants and Asylum-Seekers Deserve Humane Alternatives to Detention
Source:
Center for American Progress
Date of Document:
13 July 2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement
Source:
Canada. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
U.S. Detention of Child Migrants
Source:
Council on Foreign Relations
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
Author:
Amelia Cheatham; Diana Roy
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
CBP One – A Blessing or a Trap?
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
8 May 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
At the Breaking Point: Rethinking the U.S. Immigration Court System
Source:
Migration Policy Institute
Date of Document:
July 2023
Author:
Muzaffar Chishti et al.
Editor:
Lauren Shaw; Michelle Mittelstadt
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Temporary Protected Status in the United States: An incomplete and imperfect complementary system of protection
Date of Document:
April 2023
Author:
Sarah. H. Paoletti
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Abuses at the U.S.-Mexico Border: How to Address Failures and Protect Rights
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America; Kino Border Initiative
Date of Document:
August 2023
Author:
Zoe Martens; Adam Isacson
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
ICE's Family Expedited Removal Management (FERM) Program Puts Families At Risk
Source:
National Immigrant Justice Center
Date of Document:
August 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
“We Couldn't Wait”: Digital Metering at the US-Mexico Border
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
1 May 2024
Editor:
Alison Parker et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2022. Annual Flow Report.
Source:
United States. Department of Homeland Security.
Date of Document:
November 2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
“So Much Blood on the Ground”: Dangerous and Deadly Vehicle Pursuits under Texas' Operation Lone Star
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
November 2023
Editor:
Tanya Greene et al.
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Where Texas Goes, the Nation Follows: State Legislatures and Immigration Enforcement
Source:
National Immigration Forum
Date of Document:
22 October 2024
Author:
Alexandra Villarreal
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Schools, Stability, and Community Prosperity: New Students Seeking Asylum
Source:
Woman's Refugee Commission
Date of Document:
12 September 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Inside the Black Hole: Systemic Human Rights Abuse Against Immigrants Detained & Disappeared in Louisiana
Source:
American Civil Liberties Union et al.
Date of Document:
August 2024
Author:
Robert F. Kennedy et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Medical Care Standards in Immigrant Detention Facilities. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
2 April 2024
Author:
Abigail F. Kolker
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Statutory Bars to Reentry into the United States. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
30 August 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
May 2025
Editor:
Joe Saunders et al.
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
“Nobody Cared, Nobody Listened”: The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
24 April 2025
Author:
Bill Frelick et al.
Editor:
Tom Porteous et al.
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Trump signs executive order to crack down on sanctuary cities
Source:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Date of Document:
28 April 2025
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Enforced disappearances in limbo: the human cost of repressive cooperation between the US and El Salvador
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
14 April 2025
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
11311: Confiscation and Return of Original Documents
Source:
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Date of Document:
13 January 2023
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Report on the Trump Administration's 2025 Changes to Immigration Law
Source:
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Date of Document:
16 June 2025
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
US Terminates Protected Status for Afghans
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 July 2025
Author:
Isabella Cerqueira
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Dehumanized by design: Human rights violations in El Paso
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
21 May 2025
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Temporary Protected Status: An Overview
Source:
American Immigration Council
Date of Document:
11 June 2025
Accessed Date:
22 July 2025
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 31 January 2024:
Title:
United States. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
17 January 2024
URL:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-states/
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Présentation des États-Unis
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
3 October 2023
URL:
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/etats-unis/presentation-des-etats-unis/
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States. Freedom in the World 2023.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States of America. Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/POL1056702023ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States. World Report 2024: Events of 2023.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/united-states
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Puerto Rico. Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/POL1056702023ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States. Chapter IV.A: Human Rights Development in the Region. Annual Report 2022.
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Date of Document:
1 April 2023
URL:
https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/docs/annual/2022/Chapters/6-IA2022_Cap_4A_EN.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
208.4: Filing the application. Title 8: Aliens and Nationality. Code of Federal Regulations.
Source:
United States. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
URL:
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-208/subpart-A/section-208.4
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Citizenship and Immigration Statuses of the U.S. Foreign-Born Population. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
19 October 2023
Author:
Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11806
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Source:
United States. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of Document:
18 September 2023
URL:
https://www.uscis.gov/DACA
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
About parliament; Election results. United States of America: Senate.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
URL:
https://data.ipu.org/content/united-states-america?chamber_id=13388
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
United States of America. Election for President of 3 November 2020.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
URL:
https://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3301/
Accessed Date:
17 January 2022
Title:
17th Annual Domestic Violence Counts Report
Source:
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Date of Document:
March 2023
URL:
https://nnedv.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/17th-Annual-Domestic-Violence-Counts-Report-Full-Report-March-2023.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
1 September 2021
Author:
William A. Kandel
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43599
Accessed Date:
17 January 2022
Title:
United States of America: Tier 1. Trafficking in Persons Report 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
June 2023
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/united-states
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Criminal Victimization, 2022
Source:
United States. Department of Justice.
Date of Document:
September 2023
Author:
Alexandra Thompson; Susannah N. Tapp
URL:
https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv22.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
The Year in Hate and Extremism 2022
Source:
Southern Poverty Law Center
URL:
https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-extremism-2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
The Death Penalty in 2023: Year End Report
Source:
Death Penalty Information Center
Date of Document:
1 December 2023
Author:
Robin M. Maher et al.
URL:
https://dpic-cdn.org/production/documents/reports/year-end/Year-End-Report-2023.pdf?dm=1701385056
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States. World Press Freedom Index 2023.
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
URL:
https://rsf.org/en/country/united-states
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States. Freedom on the Net 2023.
Editor:
Adrian Shahbaz et al.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-net/2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States. Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2022. Volume II: Annual Report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Date of Document:
6 March 2023
URL:
https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/docs/annual/2022/Chapters/IA2022_Anexo_RELE_EN.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States of America. The Indigenous World 2023.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2023
Editor:
Dwayne Mamo et al.
URL:
https://www.iwgia.org/en/usa/5188-iw-2023-usa.html
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Asylum in the United States
Source:
American Immigration Council
Date of Document:
January 2024
URL:
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/asylum_in_united_states_update_jan_2024.pdf
Accessed Date:
26 January 2024
Title:
Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
11 December 2023
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RS/RS20844
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Programs
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
21 June 2021
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43725
Accessed Date:
19 January 2022
Title:
United States of America. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2019.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
March 2020
URL:
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2018-2019/americas/united-states.html
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Date of Document:
7 December 2023
URL:
https://www.undocs.org/en/CCPR/C/USA/CO/5
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States of America. Election for President of 5 November 2024.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
URL:
https://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4325/
Accessed Date:
23 July 2025
Title:
États-Unis. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
URL:
http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/cartes/%C3%89tats-Unis/1306057
Accessed Date:
25 January 2017
Title:
USA: The world is watching: Mass violations by U.S. police of Black Lives Matter protesters' rights
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
4 August 2020
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AMR5128072020ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 January 2022
Title:
United States of America: General Elections, 3 November 2020
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
9 February 2021
URL:
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/7/7/477823_2.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
International Election Observation Mission. United States of America – Mid-term Congressional Elections, 8 November 2022: Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions.
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
9 November 2022
URL:
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/f/e/530671_0.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
Three things we learned from the 2023 elections and the GOP debate
Source:
Brookings Institution
Date of Document:
9 November 2023
Author:
Elaine Karmarck; William A. Galston
URL:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/three-things-we-learned-from-the-2023-elections-and-the-gop-debate/
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
LGBT Policy Spotlight: Public Accommodations Nondiscrimination Laws
Source:
Movement Advancement Project
Date of Document:
January 2018
URL:
http://www.lgbtmap.org/file/Spotlight-Public-Accommodations-FINAL.pdf
Accessed Date:
19 March 2019
Title:
Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2023
Source:
Human Rights Campaign Foundation
URL:
https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-nonbinary-community-in-2023
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
State Attacks Against LGBTQI+ Rights
Source:
Center for American Progress
Date of Document:
13 April 2022
Author:
Caroline Medina; Sharita Gruberg
URL:
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/state-attacks-against-lgbtqi-rights/
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
Discrimination in America: Experiences and Views of African Americans
Source:
National Public Radio et al.
Date of Document:
October 2017
URL:
https://www.npr.org/assets/img/2017/10/23/discriminationpoll-african-americans.pdf
Accessed Date:
5 March 2018
Title:
The never-ending maze: Continued failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
17 May 2022
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AMR5154842022ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
United States of America: Submission to the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement ahead of its country visit
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
28 February 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ior40/6489/2023/en/
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, on his visit to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
17 August 2022
URL:
https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/49/46/Add.1
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
18 December 2018
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL31269/24
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
Deported to Danger: United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
5 February 2020
Author:
Alison Parker; Kennedy Parker
Editor:
Clara Long et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/02/05/deported-danger/united-states-deportation-policies-expose-salvadorans-death-and
Accessed Date:
11 January 2021
Title:
Judge and Jailer: Asylum Seekers Denied Parole in Wake of Trump Executive Order
Source:
Human Rights First
Date of Document:
29 September 2017
URL:
https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/hrf-judge-and-jailer-final-report.pdf
Accessed Date:
5 March 2018
Title:
Pretense of Protection: Biden Administration and Congress Should Avoid Exacerbating Expedited Removal Deficiencies
Source:
Human Rights First
Date of Document:
August 2022
Author:
Rebecca Gendelman
URL:
https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PretenseofProtection.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
“Like I'm Drowning”: Children and Families Sent to Harm by the US ‘Remain in Mexico' Program
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
6 January 2021
Author:
Michael Garcia Bochenek et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/01/06/im-drowning/children-and-families-sent-harm-us-remain-mexico-program
Accessed Date:
18 January 2022
Title:
“They Treat You Like You Are Worthless”: Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 October 2021
Author:
Clara Long et al.
Editor:
Alison Parker et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/10/21/they-treat-you-you-are-worthless/internal-dhs-reports-abuses-us-border-officials
Accessed Date:
19 January 2022
Title:
Biden Expands Trump-era Border Restrictions Once Again
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
5 January 2023
Author:
Tyler Mattiace; Vicki Gaubeca
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/01/05/biden-expands-trump-era-border-restrictions-once-again
Accessed Date:
16 January 2023
Title:
United States of America: Mandatory Use of CBP One Application Violates the Right to Seek Asylum
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
7 May 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AMR5167542023ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Lives at Risk: Barriers and Harms as Biden Asylum Ban Takes Effect
Source:
Amnesty International et al.
Date of Document:
19 May 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr51/6808/2023/en/
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
Texas Governor Signs Extreme Immigration Bill
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 December 2023
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/21/texas-governor-signs-extreme-immigration-bill
Accessed Date:
23 January 2024
Title:
United States of America – General Elections, 5 November 2024: ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission Final Report
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
11 April 2025
URL:
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/d/e/588772.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
No US State Meets Child Rights Standards
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
7 September 2023
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/07/no-us-state-meets-child-rights-standards
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024
Source:
Prison Policy Initiative
Date of Document:
5 March 2024
Author:
Aleks Kajstura; Wendy Sawyer
URL:
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2024women.html
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, on his visit to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
15 April 2024
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/56/49/ADD.3
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
The Impact of 2024 Anti-Transgender Legislation on Youth
Source:
Williams Institute
Date of Document:
April 2024
Author:
Elana Redfield et al.
URL:
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024-Anti-Trans-Legislation-Apr-2024.pdf
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
“They're Ruining People's Lives” Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
June 2025
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2025/05/lgbt_us0625web.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 July 2025
Title:
Is Venezuela's Tren de Aragua ‘Invading' the US?
Date of Document:
1 April 2024
URL:
https://insightcrime.org/news/is-venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-invading-us/
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Most Black Americans Believe U.S. Institutions Were Designed To Hold Black People Back
Source:
Pew Research Center
Date of Document:
15 June 2024
Editor:
Claudia Deane et al.
URL:
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/06/RE_2024.06.15_Black-Americans-and-US-Institutions_REPORT.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Indigenous justice in the USA: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
20 December 2024
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AMR5188482024ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Fatal: The Resurgence of Anti-Muslim Hate. 2024 Civil Rights Report.
Source:
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Author:
Corey Saylor et al.
URL:
https://islamophobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024_Fatal_The_Resurgence_of_Anti-Muslim_Hate-1.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on her visit to the United States of America
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
16 May 2024
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/56/68/Add.1
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
U.S. Refugee Admissions Program
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
20 January 2023
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47399
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention
Source:
Physicians for Human Rights
Date of Document:
25 July 2024
Author:
Eunice Hyunhye Cho; Tessa Wilson
URL:
https://phr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/REPORT-ICE-Deadly-Failures-ACLU-PHR-AO-2024.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
“Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention
Source:
Harvard University; Physicians for Human Rights
Date of Document:
6 February 2024
URL:
https://phr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PHR-REPORT-ICE-Solitary-Confinement-2024.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Six-Week Report: Implementation of the Biden Administration's June 2024: “Securing the Border” Asylum Ban
Source:
Human Rights First et al.
Date of Document:
31 July 2024
URL:
https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Six-Week-Report-Biden-2024-Asylum-Ban_FINAL.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
“We Need to Take Away Children” Zero Accountability Six Years After “Zero Tolerance”
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
December 2024
Author:
Michael Garcia Bochenek et al.
Editor:
Bede Sheppard et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2024/12/us_familyseparation_1224web.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Texas National Guard Firing Pepper Spray Projectiles at Migrants
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 September 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/25/texas-national-guard-firing-pepper-spray-projectiles-migrants
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
Source:
United States of America. The White House.
Date of Document:
4 June 2025
URL:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/
Accessed Date:
22 July 2025
Title:
CBP One – A Blessing or a Trap?
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
8 May 2024
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr51/7985/2024/en/
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
“We Couldn't Wait”: Digital Metering at the US-Mexico Border
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
1 May 2024
Editor:
Alison Parker et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/05/01/we-couldnt-wait/digital-metering-us-mexico-border
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Where Texas Goes, the Nation Follows: State Legislatures and Immigration Enforcement
Source:
National Immigration Forum
Date of Document:
22 October 2024
Author:
Alexandra Villarreal
URL:
https://immigrationforum.org/article/where-texas-goes-the-nation-follows-republican-controlled-state-legislatures-and-immigration-enforcement/
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Schools, Stability, and Community Prosperity: New Students Seeking Asylum
Source:
Woman's Refugee Commission
Date of Document:
12 September 2024
URL:
https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-resources/schools-stability-and-community-prosperity-new-students-seeking-asylum/
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Inside the Black Hole: Systemic Human Rights Abuse Against Immigrants Detained & Disappeared in Louisiana
Source:
American Civil Liberties Union et al.
Date of Document:
August 2024
Author:
Robert F. Kennedy et al.
URL:
https://rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Inside-the-Black-Hole_Systemic-Human-Rights-Abuses-Against-Immigrants-Detained.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Medical Care Standards in Immigrant Detention Facilities. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
2 April 2024
Author:
Abigail F. Kolker
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12623
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Statutory Bars to Reentry into the United States. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
30 August 2023
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12484
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
May 2025
Editor:
Joe Saunders et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2025/04/us_alienenemies0525web_0.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
“Nobody Cared, Nobody Listened”: The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
24 April 2025
Author:
Bill Frelick et al.
Editor:
Tom Porteous et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/04/24/nobody-cared-nobody-listened/us-expulsion-third-country-nationals-panama#8801
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Trump signs executive order to crack down on sanctuary cities
Source:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Date of Document:
28 April 2025
URL:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sanctuary-cities-executive-order-1.7520943
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Enforced disappearances in limbo: the human cost of repressive cooperation between the US and El Salvador
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
14 April 2025
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/AMR0192592025ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
11311: Confiscation and Return of Original Documents
Source:
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Date of Document:
13 January 2023
URL:
https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/dro_policy_memos/11311_OrgDocConfiscationReturn.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 May 2025
Title:
Report on the Trump Administration's 2025 Changes to Immigration Law
Source:
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Date of Document:
16 June 2025
URL:
https://www.nycbar.org/reports/the-trump-administrations-early-2025-changes-to-immigration-law/
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
US Terminates Protected Status for Afghans
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 July 2025
Author:
Isabella Cerqueira
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/07/10/us-terminates-protected-status-for-afghans
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Dehumanized by design: Human rights violations in El Paso
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
21 May 2025
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AMR5193862025ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
21 July 2025
Title:
Temporary Protected Status: An Overview
Source:
American Immigration Council
Date of Document:
11 June 2025
URL:
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/temporary_protected_status_250611.pdf
Accessed Date:
22 July 2025
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