Center for Human Rights and International Justice

PDHRP in the News

2011

  • PDHRP applauds ABA Support of the Right of Deportees to Reopen their Immigration Cases. Read the statement here.

2010

  • PDHRP co-founder Professor Daniel Kanstroom and former PDHRP Supervising Attorney, Rachel Rosenbloom, quoted in an article in The Nation discussing problems with the immigration court system. Read the article.
  • Post-Deportation legal victory at the Inter-American Commission. Click here for more.
  • PDHRP Co-founder Professor Daniel Kanstroom appeared on WGBH's "Greater Boston" on August 12, 2010 to discuss merits of the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. See WGBH Article
  • Law Professor Daniel Kanstroom, founder of BC's Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, comments on the 'tsunami' of deportations in the wake of harsh U.S. laws that 'removed discretion and mercy, and reduced judicial oversight'. See New York Times article.
  • Brazilian deportee returns to the United States after legal guidance from the Post Deportation Human Rights Project.
    See Boston Globe article.
  • CHRIJ Associate Director, Prof. M. Brinton Lykes quoted in the Dallas Morning News on status of deported student. Read article.
  • Post-Deportation Supervising Attorney Ms. Maunica Sthanki featured in the New York Times March 30, 2010 article on disabled detainees facing deportation. Read article
  • Post Deportation Human Rights Project’s recent report Keeping Families Connected/Mantiendo a las Familias Conectadas featured in the Huffington Post on February 16, 2010. Read article. 

 

2009

  • Post Deportation Human Rights Project profiled in Boston College magazine's Fall/Winter 2009 issue. Read article.
  • Temporary Post Deportation Human Rights Directors M. Brinton Lykes and Daniel Kanstroom profiled in The Nation. Click here for article. Read the Article Here
  • Practice Advisory on Post-Departure Motions to Reopen and Reconsider, updated November 2009. Read More Here
  • Supervising Attorney, Maunica Sthanki, presents at the Detention Watch Network Conference in Washington, DC from September 24-26, 2009. Read more here.
  • Daniel Kanstroom quoted in New York Times on September 29, 2009. Read article here.
  • Daniel Kanstroom quoted in article on Haitian deportees in North American Congress on Latin America Report September/October 2009. Read article here.
  • Post Deportation Human Rights Project joins other groups to Petition for Rulemaking seeking appointed counsel in immigration proceedings. Read more here or read the petition.
  • Former Post Deportation Human Rights Supervising Attorney, Rachel Rosenbloom is quoted in an article from the DailyComet.com in Louisiana. Read the article here.
  • Former Post Deportation Human Rights Project Supervising Attorney, Rachel Rosenbloom's congressional testimony is featured in BC Magazine. Read the article here.
  • Attorney Rachel Rosenbloom, formerly of the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project was cited in an article by the Washington Post dealing with the issue of federal arrests of legal immigrants during raids.  Read the article here.

 

2008

  • One of the many Guatemalan women detained in a federal raid on a New Bedford factory last year has won the right to stay and work in the United States, thanks to the work the Professor Brinton Lykes and the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project.  
  • With the help of BC's Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, a deportee has received what supervising attorney Rachel Rosenbloom cites as an 'extremely rare' permission to return to the US to visit her family.  Click here to read the press release.
  • Prof. Daniel Kanstroom, Attorney Mary Holper, and Attorney Rachel Rosenbloom were all featured in the Spring 2008 issue of BC Law magazine.  Click here to view the articles.
  • Rachel Rosenbloom was recently quoted in an article entitled "Deportation of U.S. citizens: 'It's just the tip of the Iceberg'" in which she addresses the problem of US citizens being mistakenly deported by authorities. Rosenbloom pointed out that stories like that of Pedro Guzman, who went missing for several months after his deportation last May, are hardly unusual. According to Rosenbloom, such cases are indicative of larger problems within the US immigration system.
  • Rachel Rosenbloom was invited to testify before the Immigration Sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 13th.  Her testimony covered problems with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) interrogation, detention and deportation practices. Read her written testimony here.
  • Professor Daniel Kanstroom is quoted in a recent New York Times article, "Immigrant Workers Caught in Net Cast for Gangs" which describes how in a recent raid meant to be part of a crackdown on immigrant gangs, 10 of the 11 men arrested had no gang ties.  
  • Prof. Daniel Kanstroom is quoted extensively in the New York Times on the lack of legal protections for the human rights of immigrants in the U.S.  The article is entitled “No Need for a Warrant, You’re an Immigrant."

 

2006-2007

Inter-American Human Rights Commission considers whether U.S. deportation laws violate international human rights standards:

  • Video of oral argument in Wayne Smith and Hugo Armendariz v. United States of America
  • Amicus brief filed by Post-Deportation Human Rights Project
  • Merits brief filed by Petitioners
  • New Surge in War Against Immigrants Director of the Center, Daniel Kanstroom, was featured in a recent radio broadcast discussing the state and federal immigration policies undertaken within the last year.
  • Senseless Deportations: Rachel Rosenbloom, supervising attorney for the Center's Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, published an op-ed piece in the March 25, 2007 edition of Washington Post discussing the U.S.' harsh deportation system.