CILP Joins 32 Organizations in Denouncing the White House’s Willingness to Trade Asylum for Foreign Aid
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Hayley Burgess, UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, burgess@law.ucla.edu
After a May 2023 commitment to devise an implementation plan by November 2023, Regents announced today that they will continue to deliberate in the coming weeks and months
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Hayley Burgess, UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, burgess@law.ucla.edu
Silvia Vazquez, UCLA Labor Center and Dream Resource Center, vazsil89@ucla.edu
LOS ANGELES, CA – In June 2023, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law submitted a report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) alongside the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and several regional partners. The report details personal testimony and legal analyses of structural racism in migration throughout the Americas.
VICTORIA, TX – On Monday, August 28, attorneys from Justice Action Center, RAICES, and the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School Law hosted a press call to debrief the bench trial in Texas v. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on April 17, 2018. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
Immigration inspiration: UCLA Law alumnus Luis Perez wins long fight for residency
by Joshua Rich
LOS ANGELES, CA – Two years ago, the Biden administration launched the “Dedicated Docket,” a fast-track immigration court program targeting families seeking asylum at our southern border, promising that it would resolve cases “more expeditiously and fairly.” Today, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law and 75 partners across the country sent a

Before Shiu-Ming Cheer ’00 made her way to the halls of UCLA Law, she was already involved in the pursuit of social justice as an undergraduate activist at UC Berkeley. Her activism came to a head in 1995 when she, along with other student organizers, was arrested after performing a sit-in during a UC Regents’ meeting to protest the UC system’s plans to eliminate its affirmative action policy.