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CAIR Coalition Condemns ICE's Change in Policy to Detain Pregnant Immigrant Women
Posted by Claudia Cubas, Esq. • Apr 04, 2018Blog
Why Every Immigrant Child Facing Deportation Needs an Attorney
Posted by Azadeh Erfani, Esq. • Apr 02, 2018Blog
False Claims of Gang-Ties Ruin Lives and are on the Rise
Posted by Lucia Curiel, Esq. • Mar 30, 2018Unsubstantiated gang allegations can greatly impact the legal case of immigrants in deportation proceedings. Allegations of gang affiliation can increase the chance that a person will be detained.
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DC Immigration Service Providers Advocate for $1.8 million Immigrant Defense Fund
Posted by Kathryn M. Doan, Esq. • Mar 19, 2018CAIR Coalition has joined the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Catholic Charities, Ayuda, Whitman Walker Health and the DMV Sanct
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CAIR Coalition's Nithya Nathan-Pineau Speaks with Yahoo News
Nithya Nathan-Pineau, director of CAIR Coalition's Detained Children's Program, speaks with Yahoo News, discussing the ramifications of stalled cases and the seemingly indefinite detention of minors.
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Adventures to Snow Hill in a Nor'easter
Posted by CAIR Coalition Staff • Mar 09, 2018Last week, our Detained Adults Program Staff and volunteers ran into a slight bump on their trip to the Snow Hill Detention Center... Hurricane force winds, road closures, even overturned vehicles couldn't stop them!
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Supreme Court Holds Immigrants Facing Indefinite Prolonged Immigration Detention Have No Right to Bond Hearings
Posted by Adina Appelbaum, Esq. • Feb 27, 2018In a disheartening case that has a resounding impact for thousands of detained immigrants across the country, as well as on the infrastructu
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DC Professional Responsibility Committee Disciplines Attorney for Providing Incompetent Counsel to Noncitizen Client Facing Deportation, Highlighting Need to Adequately Represent Immigrants in Criminal-Immigration Cases
Posted by Adina Appelbaum, Esq. • Feb 20, 2018On November 30, 2017, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility Ad Hoc Hearing Committee took disciplinary act
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What Kind of Country are We?
Posted by Kathryn M. Doan, Esq. • Feb 12, 2018What Kind of Country Are We?
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A Reflection on My First Detention Center Visit
“And perhaps the only way to grant any justice—were that even possible—is by hearing and recording those stories over and over again so that they come back, always, to haunt and shame us.
