Social Justice Symposium, St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas, April 4, 2016 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 30, 2016 Derechos en Crisis: Refugees, Migrant Detention, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism February 24 -…
Use open-ended questions. YES, even in a detention center. YES, even when you're in a hurry. 1. Be aware of personal space. Respect your narrator’s personal space. Make yourself comfortable,…
Sample simple Credible OR Reasonable Fear Interview Request A woman or child can give this to her deportation officer, and the officer should forward it to the Asylum Office. REDACTED…
Adults who are in reinstatement proceedings, and therefore their kids who are with them, are in a bad and dangerous situation because, a) only eligible for withholding of removal or…
Why are we even talking about children and credible or reasonable fear interviews?? We don’t normally think about children and these interviews. When children come alone, they are not in…
By “passing,” we mean that an Asylum Officer had found that a person had demonstrated a significant possibility of establishing, at a full merits hearing, at least a well-founded fear…
We say that someone has "passed" her reasonable fear interview when she has convinced an asylum officer, usually by sharing a detailed and consistent narrative of what happened to her…
Expedited Removal is the process by which Customs & Border Protection (CBP) or Immigration Control & Enforcement (ICE) may summarily execute an order of removal of a person without that…
A "positive fear finding" by an Asylum Officer stops the Expedited Removal or Reinstatement of Removal high-speed express train. It allows the woman to apply for asylum, withholding of removal,…
- Yes, a child has a right to her or his own interview - However, the Asylum Office has not typically conducted these interviews, and as of November 2014, Asylum…