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Dear Friends of IDP,

Over the course of the next 24 hours, individuals across the world are joining forces to celebrate generosity and make an impact; will you join hundreds of thousands of people making charitable gifts this #GivingTuesday?

Every gift made to the Immigrant Defense Project is a pledge to support our work in the fight for fairness and justice for ALL immigrants! Our community of supporters is critical in keeping IDP agile and adaptable, helping us to win victories like last week’s nationwide injunction against the Trump Administration’s latest restrictions on asylum seekers. To learn more about that victory, read on, or click below to make a gift to IDP today!

Join IDP in the fight for Immigrant Rights!

Late last week, IDP and allies scored an enormous victory as a federal judge in the Northern District of California issued a nationwide injunction against the Trump Administration's new rule that would have dramatically restricted eligibility for asylum-seekers convicted of low-level offenses and even people who are not convicted of a crime. The decision comes just one day before the new rule was set to go into effect. IDP, along with several other immigrant rights & advocacy organizations, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice earlier this month, challenging the rule.

More than anything, the court’s ruling protects the right to seek asylum in the United States. As the court recognized in its decision, the new rule would have deprived “valid asylees of ever obtaining asylum, regardless of whether they have rehabilitated themselves, regardless of whether their criminal conduct occurred many years earlier, or regardless of whether they have committed acts that Congress has said should not render one ineligible for asylum.”

Click here to read the Judge's Order Granting a Temporary Restraining Order
Click here to read coverage from the Associated Press, Federal judge blocks new disqualifiers to asylum

Join IDP in the fight for Immigrant Rights!

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