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2. National Immigrant Justice Center - Wikipedia

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   The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a center affiliated with the Heartland Alliance in the United States that "is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers." [1] Its executive director is Mary Meg McCarthy [2][3] and it is headquartered in Chicago.

3. Asylum in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A specified number of legally defined refugees who are granted refugee status outside the United States are annually admitted under 8 U.S.C. § 1157 for firm resettlement. [1][2] Other people enter the United States with or without inspection, and apply for asylum under section 1158.

4. Elvira Arellano - Wikipedia

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   Elvira Arellano (born at San Miguel Curahuango, Michoacán, 1975) is an international activist who works to defend the human rights of immigrants living in the U.S. without legal authorization (often referred to as "illegal" immigrants). Elvira Arellano was living in Chicago when she was arrested by immigration agents in 2002 for working ...

5. Chicago leaders react to Biden’s executive order ahead of ...

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   About 43,000 asylum seekers have made their way to Chicago since 2022, when Abbott sent his first migrant buses north. ... who in 2018 utilized the same immigration law Biden is leaning on now to ...

6. American Immigration Lawyers Association - Wikipedia

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   Formerly called. Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), founded on October 14, 1946, is a voluntary bar association of over 15,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law. [2] AILA member attorneys represent U.S. families seeking permanent residence ...

7. Immigration policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Asylum policy of the United States is governed by the Refugee Act of 1980. Under this law, the United States recognizes refugees as individuals with a "well-founded fear of persecution" in line with the definition established by the United Nations. It also established the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Department of Health and Human ...