HeyJaredRachel Rutter, Esq.
Founder & Executive Director of Project Libertad | Immigration Lawyer | 2024 Top 5 CNN Hero | 2024 Drexel University 40 Under 40 | 2022 L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth | 2021 Aerie Changemaker
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Immigration and the Literacy Crisis (opens the original)
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The US faces a literacy crisis. Nowhere is that crisis more pronounced than in the debate about immigration. 54% of American adults read below a sixth-grade reading level. 20% read below a fifth-grade reading level. Globally, the US ranks 36th in literacy. 21% of American adults are functionally
A Tale of Two Siblings: Refuge for One, Deportation for the Other (opens the original)
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25,000+ immigrant children just lost access to lawyers and now face deportation proceedings in immigration court by themselves. There is no right to a court-appointed lawyer in immigration court, even for young children. For decades, Congress has bridged some of that gap by funding limited legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children, recognizing their extreme vulnerability to trafficking and abuse
Liberty and Justice for Whom? (opens the original)
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Author’s note: This is reposted from 7/4/2025.The Fourth of July feels like a hollow promise this year, even more so than usual. The United States has never truly lived up to its ideals of liberty and justice for all. Founded on genocide and built through violence and subjugation, the US has always perpetrated violence while preaching a philosophy of freedom. Chattel slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and innumerable other horrors undermine that message of freedom and equality for all. In 20
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