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ASAP in the News

Meet The Five Standout Tech Nonprofits Of 2022
Forbes
January 23, 2023
“For ASAP, technology does more than touch the lives of individual asylum seekers - it taps the power of community to drive change at the systemic level,” said Fast Forward’s Shannon Farley in Forbes.

Guatemalan Family Reunited Two Years After Separation
People En Español
January 10, 2023
ASAP member Leticia Peren shares her story, after being forcefully separated from her son in 2017, and talks about the abuse she endured under U.S. custody.

New border measures will hurt Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans
The San Diego Union-Tribune
January 5, 2023
“President Biden, don't expel asylum seekers trying to find safe haven,” ASAP said. “The U.S. needs their skills, courage, and tenacity to fill its shrinking labor pool and boost the economy.”

Colorado Springs anticipates welcoming more immigrants
The Gazette
December 19, 2022
“There are a lot of really great people who want to welcome immigrants… make them feel supported, help them become integrated into the life of our city,” said ASAP Community Resources Attorney Eric Pavri.
Guatemalan family in NYC sues the government over separation
Prensa Libre
December 13, 2022
“We are raising our voices to seek justice,” said Leticia Peren, “so that the government will never again separate families trying to find safe haven and build a new life in the U.S.”
NYC Family Sues over Government Family Separation
NY Daily News
December 13, 2022
“By bringing this lawsuit, this family wants to help prevent anything like this from happening again, to fight back against injustice, and to tell their story,” said ASAP’s Zachary Manfredi.
Advocates launch campaign to welcome migrants sent north
The Hill
November 18, 2022
"The campaign, Choose Welcome, is being spearheaded by Families Belong Together, Community Change, Amnesty International, and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP)," said Erin Mazursky.


Family Separation: Congress Can’t Even Do This One Thing
The Atlantic
October 27, 2022
“This is what the Trump administration would be doing… trying to aggressively discourage families from filing lawsuits,” said ASAP Co-ED Conchita Cruz about the Biden DOJ’s tactics against separated families.

Venezuelan families await asylum in Texas
CNN
October 11, 2022
As more Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Cuban families arrive at the border, ASAP Co-ED Conchita Cruz said the federal government continues to evade its duty under the law to provide work permits for asylum seekers in 30 days.

People from 3 countries drive border spike, add to backlogs
CNN
October 7, 2022
“The government should comply and process asylum seekers’ work permits as quickly as possible whether they’re forced to by a federal judge and a court order or not,” said ASAP Co-ED Conchita Cruz.

DOJ pushes psych evaluations for separated families
CNN
September 27, 2022
“They were headed toward re-traumatizing these families," said Conchita Cruz, co-executive director of ASAP. "This is the thing that the Trump administration would’ve done and did do.”

NYC asks feds to fast-track work permits for migrants
NY Daily News
September 14, 2022
ASAP Co-Executive Director Conchita Cruz said that the government is failing in its duty to process asylum seekers’ work permits in 30 days, noting that New York’s mayor is “literally asking the government to abide by the law.”

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