CAIR Coalition
Working to ensure all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights
CAIR Coalition brings together community groups, pro bono attorneys, volunteers and immigrants from the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland working to ensure that all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights.
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Features & Case Studies
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Baker Botts L.L.P. Prevents Deportation of 22 Year Resident
As a teenager, ME fled the civil war in El Salvador. Having witnessed the massacre of many of his family members, he entered the United States in 1986 seeking a safe haven and an opportunity to live and work without living in constant fear for his life. Twenty-two years later, he sat in an immigration [...]
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Morgan Lewis Helps “Lost Boy” to Remain in the United States
Between 1983 and 2005, more than 27,000 boys were displaced by civil war in southern Sudan. Most of the boys were orphaned or permanently separated from their families when government troops systematically attacked their villages, massacring over 2 million civilians during the decades long conflict. Many of the boys were away from the villages tending [...]
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Amnesty International: U.S. Immigrant Detentions Violate Human Rights
The detention of over 300,000 immigrants a year in the United States represents a violation of international human rights, according to Amnesty International’s new report “Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA.” The organization reports on detention conditions that violate both U.S. and international standards for the treatment of detainees, including housing [...]
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