The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is an informational digest of news, events, new websites and other information of interest to the biracial\/multiracial individuals, interracial couples\/families and the transracial adoptee community. Published irregularly, with special alerts as news items warrant. The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is registered with the Library of Congress, Washington, DC – ISSN: 1522-6905. Past newsletters and alerts are archived at http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/newsletter.html<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Special Alert 19 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Multiracial Activist, along with several religious and civil liberties groups, has endorsed a brief report authored by Maria S. Constantinescu on religious asylum seekers and the REAL ID Act’s impact on same.<\/p>\n An excerpt: ” Under current law, hundreds of religious persecution cases are pending before the federal courts of appeals. A disturbing number of these cases did not receive a meaningful review by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA is an administrative agency within the Department of Justice which handles appeals from Immigration Judges\u2019 decisions. Its purpose, in effect, is to provide guidance to Immigration Judges by interpreting the immigration laws. The cases that come before the BIA are primarily from individuals seeking relief from orders of removal and deportation entered by Immigration Judges.”<\/p>\n Produced by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, “Faithful but Forsaken: Real ID Act Harms Victims of Religious Persecution” is available online at:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/news\/faithfulbutforsaken.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n The full list of endorsing organizations is below:<\/p>\n American Immigration Lawyers Association Yours in Struggle,<\/p>\n James A. Landrith, Jr. Copyright \u00a9 2005 The Multiracial Activist. All rights reserved.<\/span> {jos_sb_discuss:8}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Multiracial Activist Newsletter Special Alert 19 – February 1, 2005 The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is an informational digest of news, events, new websites and other information of interest to the biracial\/multiracial individuals, interracial...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,106],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-multiracial-activist-newsletter","tag-newsletter","tag-special-alert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-7K","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Newsletters-and-Special-Alerts.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFebruary 1, 2005
\nEditor, James A. Landrith, Jr.
\nhttp:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/<\/a>
\nemail: editor@multiracial.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/dl>\n
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\nAmerican Jewish Committee
\nAnti-Defamation League
\nB’nai B’rith International
\nChurch World Service\/Immigration and Refugee Program
\nCenter for Gender and Refugee Studies
\nCenter for National Security Studies
\nCoalition for Immigrants\u2019 Rights at the Community Level (CIRCLE)
\nEpiscopal Migration Ministries
\nFlorida Immigrant Advocacy Center
\nHebrew Immigrant Aid Society
\nHuman Rights First
\nImmigrant and Refugee Rights Project, Washington Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
\nJesuit Refugee Service
\nKurdish Human Rights Watch, Inc.
\nLutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
\nMidwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center, a program of Heartland Alliance The Multiracial Activist
\nNational Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
\nNational Immigration Law Center
\nTexas Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
\nU.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
\nThe Workmen’s Circle\/Arbeter Ring
\nWorld Relief
\nWorld Organization for Human Rights USA<\/p>\n
\nEditor & Publisher
\nThe Multiracial Activist<\/a>
\nThe Abolitionist Examiner<\/a>
\nA Mixed Blog<\/a>
\nTaking The Gloves Off<\/a><\/p>\n
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