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Joint #PressRelease: Advocates Detail Irreparable Harms, Request Stay in Challenge to Trump-era Rule Restricting Immigrants’ Access to Justice

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Read here: cliniclegal.org/press-releases…
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"Michelle N. Mendez, Director of the Defending Vulnerable Populations program at CLINIC, explains EOIR’s rule 'will create the need for more appeals to the BIA and more motions to reopen.'"
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"The rule, Mendez says, 'will also immediately impair the core missions of CLINIC’s affiliates to provide competent removal defense to low-income and vulnerable populations.'”
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