Iranian American Organizations’ Joint Statement on Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Full Enforcement of the Trump Travel Ban 3.0. For Immediate Release:Contact: Aurora MatthewsPhone: (301)-221-7984 Washington, D.C. (December 5, 2017)...
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Pars Equality Center and other organizations’ lawsuit cited in the national news
DACA Price Tag DACA PRICE TAG: President Donald Trump released Sunday a list of measures to restrict immigration that he wants in exchange for writing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into law, POLITICO’s Seung Min Kim...
Lawsuit Argues Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Continues to Target Iranian Americans, Exacerbates Harm of Previous Travel Ban Orders
Iranian-American organizations and 13 individual plaintiffs file challenge to Travel Ban 3.0, ask for response before EO takes effect Oct 18 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Aurora Matthews301-221-7984 WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 10, 2017) –...
The U.S. Supreme Court Allows Implementation of Parts of the Executive Order/Travel and Refugee Ban
On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari and consolidated two key cases in the travel and refugee ban litigation:Â Trump v. IRAPÂ and Trump v. Hawaii. The case will be heard during the first session of the October 2017 term.In...
Iranian American Organizations Denounce State Department Travel Ban Guidelines
Joint Statement of the Pars Equality Center, the Iranian American Bar Association (IABA), National Iranian American Council (NIAC), and the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) WASHINGTON, DC - As organizations representing the Iranian American...
Pars Equality Center joins a coalition of Iranian American Organizations on a statement about the detention of Iranians by U.S. authorities
Washington, DC – As organizations that represent the Iranian-American community, we are deeply concerned by recent arrests of Iranians visiting and studying in the United States.
Iranian-American Orgs file federal court challenge to trump travel ban 2.0
Washington, DC—Four prominent Iranian-American organizations renewed their challenge to the Trump Administration’s illegal and unconstitutional policies, filing papers to take on the President’s revised “Travel Ban” Executive Order. The organizations, joined by over 20 individual plaintiffs, have updated their existing lawsuit against the January 27th Travel Ban Executive Order, Pars Equality, et al v. Trump, to take on the March 6th version.
Iranian-American Orgs on Rise in Hate Crimes: Time for Leaders to Condemn These Incidents
WASHINGTON, DC – Today four Iranian American organizations released the following statement following a series of violent incidents that have recently taken place with the intention to target Americans of Iranian descent.