CALA Staff & clients In The Press
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Photo: Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio for Documented, Dec 15, 2022.
Video by Sean Meehan 12/01/2019
Wilson is a Honduran activist who has been both a father and a mother to his two young girls since the murder of their mother. They were granted asylum in July. This is their story.
Video by Sean Meehan 12/01/2019
The Rivera family fled Colombia after their refusal to accede to the demands of a dangerous paramilitary group put their lives at risk. This is their story.
Spectrum News NY 1, March 26, 2021
The Progressive, July 9, 2020
The Progressive : Closing the Door on Asylum
Beth Fertig, WNYC, June 1, 2020
Beth Fertig, WNYC, September 26, 2019
The Intercept, July 16, 2019
The Guardian, May 5, 2019
ProPublica, January 22, 2019
The Nation, November 28, 2018
The New York Times, June 12, 2018
The New York Times: She Was Raped and Threatened With Death. Now She Has Lost Hope of Asylum.
“It’s very sad news because there is tremendous societal violence in the Central American countries and the ravages of the civil wars have left society without any structures to protect people,” said Anne Pilsbury..."Women are especially vulnerable. We’ve basically told them, ‘Too bad.’”
WNYC, May 24 and June 19, 2018
The New York Daily News, January 6, 2018
The New York Daily News: Hondurans live in limbo as over 200,000 Salvadorans await Trump's decision on Temporary Protected Status
Photograph by Carolyn Drake / Magnum for the New Yorker, January 15, 2018
NPR, June 14, 2017
NPR: N.Y. Immigration Courts Face 2-Year Delay After Judges Sent To The Border
"These days, people are waiting on average more than two years to have their cases heard in the city's immigration courts."
The Observer, April 6, 2017
WNYC, March 23, 2017
WNYC: Colombian Man's Swift Detention Worries Immigrant Advocates
"Vivares' case is unusual because he's the type of immigrant who would have previously been a low priority for deportation by former president Barack Obama's administration. Attorneys said his detention appears to mark the latest sign of President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants without legal status."
T.J. Kirkpatrick for the New York Times, March 4, 2017
The Huffington Post, November 4, 2016
The New York Times: Migrants Confront Judgment Day Over Old Deportation Orders
"In a significant break from his predecessor, Mr. Trump is directing immigration agents to go after virtually anyone who is in the United States illegally, ending the reprieve for people who had not been considered priorities."
HuffPost: Unaccompanied Minors Flow Out of Central America Under Weak Border Enforcement
"Nearly 59,700 children and teenagers have been detained by U.S. immigration enforcement authorities between October 2015 and September 2016."
The New Yorker, August 9, 2016
The New Yorker: Escape to New York
"Many Central American immigrants seeking legal help are fleeing organized crime in their own countries."
News 12: Brooklyn, December 29, 2015
News 12: Washington Post: Deportation raids could start in January
"Hundreds of immigrant families who fled violence in Central America may be facing deportation in 2016."
NPR, November 22, 2015
NPR: With Asylum Out of Reach, Some Minors Seek Out Special Visas
"Some unaccompanied minors who don't qualify for asylum can apply instead for a visa called Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, or SIJS."
The New York Times, December 7, 2014
The New York Times: Fleeing Violence in Honduras, a Teenage Boy Seeks Asylum in Brooklyn
"When father and son watched President Obama’s prime-time speech last month announcing an executive order to grant temporary legal status for up to five million immigrants, their reaction was mixed."
Rolling Stone, August 13, 2014
Rolling Stone: The GOP's Fake Border War
"How the far right has used the refugee crisis - and ignored suffering children - for short-term political gain"
CBS Evening News, July 9, 2014
CBS Evening News: An illegal immigrant's long journey through the legal system
"Danilo was released to a cousin in New York. He's seeking asylum and has been given a lawyer free of charge from the non-profit Central American Legal Assistance. "
The Atlantic, June 20, 2014
The Atlantic: Fear Is Driving Young Men Across the U.S. Border
"Central American countries are losing a generation because of gangs."
WNYC, October 10, 2013
WNYC: Shutdown Leaves Some Immigrants Worried About Their Future
"The Honduran immigrant had a hearing scheduled in immigration court last week and would have likely been approved for a green card. But the government shutdown led to court closure. "
New York Law Journal, August 1, 2013
New York Law Journal: Panel Affirms Immigrants' Fourth Amendment Rights
"In a powerful affirmation of the right of immigrants to be secure in their homes, a unanimous Second Circuit panel held Wednesday that a Fourth Amendment violation so egregious as to warrant suppression does not necessarily have to result from a physical threat or abuse."
Bedford and Bowery, July 26, 2013