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Client of the Month- March 2022- Azeb!

March 1, 2022

Azeb and Dree Collopy We are happy to once again begin our client of the month series with a Dree Collopy victory! This month, we celebrate our client Azeb, who was granted asylum from Ethiopia...

Clients of the Month February 2017- Karla and Anthony Duran

February 7, 2017

During these difficult times for our country, when the Trump Administration has suspended the refugee resettlement program and attempted to paint all refugees as terrorists and security threats, Benach Collopy has continued the fight for...

Remember the St. Louis

January 27, 2017

Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am thinking about the M.S. St. Louis. In 1939, while war waged in Europe, the M.S. St. Louis, a transatlantic ship carrying Jewish refugees fleeing the Third Reich, reached...

Clients of the Month- October 2016: 5 Child Refugees!

October 20, 2016

[caption id="attachment_1735" align="alignright" width="324"] Liana Montecinos[/caption] This post was written by Liana Montecinos. Thirsty, hungry, at the brink of exhaustion, and with fear of violent deaths looming large back home is how many Central American...

TPS for Syrians extended by DHS

August 5, 2016

[caption id="attachment_1599" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] CIS is responsible for TPS applications for Syrians[/caption] The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday August 1 that it would re-designate Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) through March 2018....

Refugee Olympic Team at 2016 Olympic Games

August 4, 2016

[caption id="attachment_2773" align="aligncenter" width="966"] Faces of the Refugee Olympic Team[/caption] On August 5, the 2016 Olympic Games will open in Rio de Janeiro. I love the Olympics because it is a time when we all...

Why Should Congress Support the Refugee Protection Act of 2016?

July 28, 2016

“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.” Ariel Dorfman (Argentine-Chilean playwright, academic and human rights activist) By Satsita Muradova If someone asked me what was the most difficult decision...

Introducing our Fellow for Trans Asylum Issues and Celebrating Thirty Years of Whitman Walker Health Legal Services

May 22, 2016

[caption id="attachment_2697" align="aligncenter" width="458"] Naya, Celina, Liana, Ava and Cori and Amy from Whitman Walker[/caption] This is a big week at Benach Collopy as a number of important projects are coming together and we are...

Fight Daesh by Embracing the Refugee

November 16, 2015

At Benach Collopy, we share the outrage over the terrorist massacre in Paris. We weep for the families who lives where turned inside out by a murderous death cult. As residents of another Western capital,...

Under Pressure over Family Detention, the Administration Finally Agrees to Exercise a Little Humanity

July 14, 2015

Since last summer, when the Obama Administration hastily resurrected the concept of family detention to jail refugee women and children seeking asylum, thousands of women and children have languished in inhumane conditions, have been refused...

House Democrats (and Dree!) Call on Obama to End Family Detention

May 22, 2015

Yesterday, several prominent House Democrats called on the administration to end family detention. Organized by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California, the Democrats decried the Obama administration's detention of women and children fleeing violence in Central...

BR Attorneys Lobby the Administration and Congress to End Family Detention

April 27, 2015

Once a year immigration attorneys from all over the country march to Washington, D.C. to meet with their elected officials and to encourage them to take action toward fixing this country’s broken immigration system. The...

New Common Sense Rules on Material Support for Terrorism Bars

February 17, 2014

We have written on this page before about the absurd over-inclusiveness of the ground of inadmissibility for "material support" for terrorism. This net barred Nelson Mandela from entering the U.S. without a waiver until 2008...

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