Immigration, Asylum, & Refugee Resource Guide

Taken from the Immigration Judges Benchbook—371 page guide authored by
Immigration Judge Charles A. Wiegand, III.

The Immigration Court Practice Manual (now part of the EOIR) is intended to provide "uniform procedures, recommendations, and requirements for practice before the Immigration Courts."

Free articles posted in the last few days. Log into Lexis to view older content.

Collection of open access Immigration Law articles published by a number of different law reviews and journals. Use the search box in the top right to search by keyword or browse through the list of most recent articles.

Provides immigration news. Regular columns include "ABCs of Immigration," legislative update, ask visalaw.com, and government processing times. Available free from Visalaw.com, a Web-site maintained by a large immigration law firm. E-mail subscriptions are available.

From Penn State's Center For Immigrants’ Rights Clinic

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) has created and compiled the following resources for individuals seeking asylum in the United States. Their hope is that asylum seekers will use these resources to better understand the process and defend their rights. However, this information is not a substitute for advice from an attorney.

You can filter information by country or topic and find videos & photos as well as reports.

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) builds the capacity of immigration advocates to assist immigrants in their claims for asylum in order to provide more immigrants with a meaningful chance at justice. FAQs & Explainers offer community guidance on asylum and other immigrant law resources.

Litigation information and resources about IRAP's work, with numerous partners, to develop strategic legal and policy solutions to mount a coordinated response to injustices related to the U.S. asylum system, particularly at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Search for immigration legal services providers by state, county, or detention facility. Only nonprofit organizations that provide free or low-cost immigration legal services are included in this directory.

From the UN - general asylum information and forms/paperwork; legal aid options; case reports; and information specific to those seeking protection in the United States for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) individuals, for individuals fleeing gang violence, and for stateless individuals.

The Women’s Refugee Commission’s Research and Resource Library is a collection of groundbreaking reports, field manuals, and other tools to help the humanitarian community improve programs that affect the lives of internally displaced and refugee women, children, and youth. Their materials are informed by recommendations from visits to refugee settings, often conducted with partner local organizations.

The APWA currently hosts over 2,100 essays, which are solicited through prisoner-support newsletters and a call for essays in Prison Legal News. Anyone with first-hand experience inside US carceral institutions today is eligible to submit essays. This includes prison employees and volunteers, who materially shape the day-to-day conditions in which incarcerated people live, and who are in turn deeply affected by their work. A truly inclusive vision of life inside requires the testimony of everyone who lives, works, or volunteers in prisons today. In this light, readers will note the under-representation of women, trans, and gender nonconforming people in the archive. We invite all APWA visitors who work with or know incarcerated people to help us in increasing contributions from these populations, as well as from prison workers and volunteers.

Search reports, news, and other documents compiled and created by Amnesty International.

The Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research, based in the Columbia University Libraries and Information Services, supports the community of teachers, students, researchers, and law and social justice advocates working in the multidisciplinary sphere of human rights. The Center pursues three programmatic directions: building research collections, supporting and engaging in human rights education efforts, and developing events and collaborations related to human rights documentation and research. They are the official repository for the archives of major human rights organizations such as Amnesty International USA, the Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch.

You can filter information by country or topic and find videos & photos as well as reports.

The Latin American Digital Initiatives (LADI) repository is a collaborative project that preserves and provides digital access to unique archival documents from a network of Latin American partners with an emphasis on collections documenting human rights issues and underrepresented communities. Sources include posters, books, newspapers, pamphlets, and photographs. Based at the University of Texas in Austin.

SCR’s mission is to advance the transparency and effectiveness of the UN Security Council. We seek to achieve this by making available timely, balanced, high-quality information about the activities of the Council and its subsidiary bodies; by convening stakeholders to deepen the analysis of issues before the Council and its working methods and performance; by encouraging engagement of the Council with all member states and civil society; and by building capacity on Council practice and procedure through assisting incoming members and other training and assistance programs. SCR is independent and impartial; it advocates transparency but does not take positions on the issues before the Council.

A thorough guide, with links to full-text documents, to major UN human rights material.

The online catalogue of UN documents and publications. The Digital Library includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. met [November 17, 2023] with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, in San Francisco, California.

VOA (Voice of America) January 18, 2024

SCOTUS blog January 22, 2024

Cites U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, January 26, 2024

In 2021, Governor Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star, deploying the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety to the southern border.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability January 17, 2024

Department of State May 10, 2023

from Bureau of Transportation Statistics

FindLaw's Cases and Codes section contains resources and links for both state and federal laws. This includes resources pertaining to constitutions, statutes, cases and more. Run a search for case summaries or select a jurisdiction to browse applicable laws.

This website contains a wide range of primary and secondary materials related to the U.S. Supreme Court. Of particular note, Oyez.com offers audio recordings of selected oral arguments.

The Caselaw Access Project is making all U.S. case law freely accessible online. With the Caselaw Access Project API (CAPAPI) and bulk data service, we can share 40 million pages of published U.S. court cases. Learn more about how to search here.

Searchable database by keyword and country.

From the Homeland Security website

Fact sheet from the American Immigration Counsel, June 2019

From the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

From Rescue.org, March 2019

Search different articles from the Pew Researcher on the topic of Immigration

From Pew Researcher, by Raea Rasmussen and Jacob Poushter, August 2019