Washington, DC June 9, 2017 – Yesterday, the Trump administration officially terminated the Family Case Management Program (FCMP). Since its inception in 2016, the program provided a method of compliance enforcement for vulnerable populations such as pregnant women, nursing mothers, families with very young children, and families with other special needs that was a viable […]
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Women’s Refugee Commission Expresses Concern Over Mistreatment of Asylum Seekers
Washington, DC June 6, 2017 – As President Donald Trump’s hasty and indiscriminate deportation force continues to affect men and women throughout the United States, claims of asylum appear to be increasingly ignored or outright rejected, as corroborated by a New York Times report last month. In other cases, asylum seekers are treated as prisoners […]
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Betraying Family Values: How Immigration Policy at the US Border is Separating Families
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2017 – Over the past five years, the United States has seen a shift in the demographics of migrants encountered at our borders—from a majority of adult males, often from Mexico, seeking employment, to families, children, grandparents, aunts, and uncles fleeing together, seeking protection in the United States, coming mostly from Central […]
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Women’s Refugee Commission Responds to Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Muslim Refugees
Washington, DC January 28, 2017 – President Trump has signed an Executive Order that includes, among other provisions, a suspension of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program altogether and a temporary ban on entry to the U.S. for people traveling from a number of predominately Muslim countries. The Executive Order says that priority will be given […]