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Nashville artist and TSU professor Mike Mitchell, also known as mikewindy, is selling one of his latest works to benefit TNJFON. Advocacy and Education Coordinator Hannah Smalley interviewed him last week about his vision for the piece, the role of art in building community, and why he supports TNJFON!
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Thanks to new Senior Staff Attorney Emily Stotts, TNJFON is expanding our practice to include full representation before the Memphis Immigration Court! TNJFON is now the only not-for-profit law firm in Nashville offering full representation before this Court. Learn how this changes our practice and why representation in Immigration Court is so important.
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In June 1856, after unilaterally dissolving a wartime government, a young man boasted to all of Nicaraguan society that he was their newly-minted emperor and president. He was not a politician or military leader from Nicaragua, or even any Central American nation. He was, in fact, a Nashville, Tennessee blue blood…
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TNJFON staff continues to advocate for the Afghan Adjustment Act in meetings with legislators and presentations to the community. For the representatives in Congress, this is simply another bargaining chip and talking point, but for Afghan evacuees, it’s their lives. We owe it to our new neighbors to do the right thing.
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In June 2022, Metro Council voted to invest $1.8m+ in immigration legal services over two years, with $630,544 going to TNJFON. Three quarters in, here’s a look at the impact this generous grant has had on our work…
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Last Tuesday, the Biden administration released a notice of proposed rulemaking detailing new immigration regulations that amount to an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border. While the Biden administration has attempted to distinguish its asylum ban from Trump’s policies, it still has the same effect: denying asylum seekers lifesaving protection in the United States. Right now, the asylum ban is still a proposal. We have just 30 days to submit public comments urging the administration to reverse course.
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As we close out Black history month with a discriminatory asylum ban on the horizon, it’s time for the immigration justice movement to bring an intentional focus to racial justice. For Black immigrants, the criminalization of Blackness and the criminalization of immigration intersect with dire consequences.
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