The biggest news this week was that a coalition of legal groups including the National Immigration Law Center, The Legal Aid Society, and the Western Center on Law & Poverty filed a suit challenging the State Department's 75 country immigrant visa halt. They filed on behalf of CLINIC, African Communities Together and many brave U.S. citizens whose family members are harmed by the policy. See State Department (Other) for more details and links to primary sources.
HUD has a proposed rule out for comment that would remove its "disparate impact" standards from regulations. If finalized, this would leave it to courts to determine whether a given practice has an unjustified discriminatory effect under the Fair Housing Act. Comments are due by February 13. Our partners at the National Low Income Housing Coalition have a toolkit for responding, including links to a template comment and a petition. We are also watching out for the HUD "mixed families" rule which cleared OMB review last week.
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