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Federal legislation passed over
the past several decades, including the Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death
Penalty Act, both enacted in 1996, has resulted in substantial changes
in U.S. immigration law and policy. Categories of crimes that subject
non-citizens to deportation or exclusion have been expanded, relief from
deportation or exclusions available to non-citizens has been limited,
and judicial review of deportation has been virtually eliminated. Other
immigration policy initiatives, both federal and local, have had a major
impact on citizens and non-citizens, in the U.S. and abroad. |
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The Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will deliver a keynote address. Other speakers include Philip Anderson, immediate past President of the American Bar Association; Deborah Anker, Director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic; the Honorable Isaac Borenstein of the Massachusetts Superior Court; Jeanne Butterfield, Executive Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association; Bernadette Cisse of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees; Professor Joan Fitzpatrick of the University of Washington Law School; Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts; Linda Friedman-Ramirez; Adrian Garcia of the National Latino Peace Officers Association; Isabel Garcia of the Arizona Border Rights Project; Lucas Guttentag, Director of the ACLU Immigration Rights Project; Sarah Ignatius, Executive Director of the PAIR Project; Maria Jimenez, Director of the Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project; Professor Kevin Johnson of University of California at Davis, Professor Daniel Kanstroom of Boston College Law School; Dan Kesselbrenner of the National Lawyer's Guild Immigration Project; Chief Counsel William Leahy of the Committee for Public Counsel Services; Cheryl Little of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center; Professor Eileen Luna of the University of Arizona; Professor David Martin of the University of Virginia Law School; Jocelyn McCalla, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights; Professor Nancy Morawetz of New York University; Professor Gerald Neuman of Columbia Law School; Congressman Silvestre Reyes of Texas; the Honorable Lory Rosenberg of the Board of Immigration Appeals; Professor Margaret Taylor of Wake Forest University Law School; Manny Vargas, Director of the Criminal Defense Immigration Project; and Carol Wolchok of the Center for Immigration Law and Representation. |
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The
Harvard
Immigration Refugee Clinic is a collaborative project
between Harvard Law School and Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), which
is housed at GBLS. Students in the clinic provide direct representation
to victims of human rights abuses in applying for U.S. refugee protection,
family reunification and avoidance of forced removal in immigration proceedings
and in federal court. The Clinic also engages in regulatory comments and
reform and other related advocacy before the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Women Refugees Project, an internationally recognized program, does
groundbreaking work on women's international human rights and political
asylum claims,. The Project drafted the historic INS Gender Asylum Guidelines
and helped draft the Children's Asylum Guidelines. Clinic instructors
have contributed major scholarship in the field, including the leading
treatise on U.S. asylum law, Law of Asylum in the United States.
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The
Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project (BCIAP) is a full-year Immigration
clinical program. Students enrolled in the Immigration Law survey course
taught by Professor Daniel Kanstroom may also work with BCIAP for credit.
The clinic provides advice, counseling, and representation for indigent asylum-seekers and noncitizens detained by the I.N.S and research assistance to pro-bono attorney volunteers in immigration and asylum cases. Students also work on a variety of projects ranging from presentations to community groups, preparation of training materials for judges, attorneys, and community groups and appellate briefs and amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court. Since 1995 students have traveled to Miami and South Texas to volunteer with "front-line" legal service groups such as the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Catholic Charities and the Lutheran Ministries. BCIAP also has recently established a Fellowship, primarily funded by the Jesuit Refugee Service and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, to represent detained clients, participate in impact litigation, and supervise students in the immigration program. |
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