Legal Advocacy

Joined Amicus Brief in Pekoske v. Innovation Law Lab (January 22, 2021)

MPP is an illegal and inhumane policy that denies refugees—adults and children who fled persecution or have a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion—access to the U.S. asylum system and ultimately to refugee protection.

Immigration Equality’s Amicus Brief in Alvarado v. Barr (September 9, 2020)

Forcing Ms. Fernandez Alvarado to choose between two types of persecution—living as her true self and risking violence and abuse or suppressing her sexual orientation and living with the attendant mental anguish—is unconscionable, immoral, and unlawful.

Joined Amicus Brief in Casa de Maryland v. Chad Wolf (August 8, 2020)

These Rules, if allowed to take effect, will force asylum seekers to go for years without employment authorization or a means to support themselves as they wait for their asylum cases to be heard.