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CAIR Coalition Secures Freedom for Chinese Asylee Who Spent Two Years in Immigration Detention(0)

March 1, 2010

Mr. ZP fled to the United States in 2000 to escape China’s population control measures, including forced sterilization in his case.  Mr. ZP subsequently applied for and was granted asylum after presenting compelling evidence that he would be persecuted if he returned to China.  Mr. ZP’s sister and brother, a U.S. citizen and a [...]

CAIR Coalition Urges Attorney General to Safeguard the Rights of Mentally Ill Immigrant Detainees

Recently, the United States signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and celebrated the 19th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. These two actions mark our nation’s commitment to provide reasonable accommodations to and ensure basic fairness for all people with disabilities. Unfortunately, this commitment falters in our nation’s [...]

Inter-American Development Bank Volunteer Helps Prevent Deportation of 26 Year Resident

Maria de Gador Manzano-Guillen, an attorney with the Inter-American Development Bank, served as pro bono co-counsel, along with CAIR Coalition’s Legal Director, Liz McGrail, in the case of Mr. AR, a native of Honduras who immigrated to the United States in 1982 at the age of 14.  Mr. AR faced deportation to [...]

CAIR Coalition Celebrates 10th Anniversary

On Wednesday, June 17, CAIR Coalition will hold a Tenth Anniversary Party to celebrate a decade of working to ensure that all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights and to help raise funds for CAIR Coalition’s programs.  The party will take place from 6-8 p.m. at Busboys [...]


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