CAIR Coalition’s Children’s Attorney Wins Grant of Asylum for Honduran Gang Victim One Week Before His Transfer to Adult Custody(1)
MCM, a 17-year-old from Honduras, left his country in 2004 after his brother was killed by MS-13 gang members. Knowing he would be next, he made the perilous journey north at the age of 10 to live with his godmother in Texas. Once here, he filed for asylum and testified before an immigration judge in [...]
CAIR Coalition’s Equal Justice Works Fellow Secures Relief For Two Severely Disabled Detainees
The Story of MV MV immigrated from the Philippines to the United States with his family as a Lawful Permanent Resident when he was eight years old. Growing up in Virginia Beach, he soon began to exhibit the signs of a severe mental illness and an intellectual disability, which was not formally diagnosed until his [...]
CAIR Coalition Partners with Georgetown Law Center to Help Somali Torture Survivor Win Relief and Make a Successful Transition Out of Detention
In 1990, IA, a national of Somalia, filed chargers against government soldiers who murdered his uncle. As a result, he was accused of being an anti-government reactionary, despite his lack of involvement in politics. IA was held for a week in an underground cell, where he was beaten and tortured. He was then transferred to [...]
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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