LAW 8608

About this course

Advocacy on the Frontline: Immigrant Rights and Legal Aid is an immersive, experiential, and expeditionary, approximately one-to-two-week course where students work under supervision outside of New York City to assist clients seeking entry into the United States and/or immigration relief, often while those clients are in ICE custody. Given rapidly changing immigration policies, this course enables students to offer legal services and support to individuals who have limited access to legal representation and due process. The course provides students an opportunity to learn how to represent individuals in the most challenging and constantly shifting legal environments while also helping to provide representation for those who are detained in remote locations and most in need. Depending on community needs, student work may include client intake and screening; Know Your Rights presentations; credible fear and reasonable fear interview preparation; accompaniment to ICE interviews; client representation at hearings before an Immigration Judge and administrative appeals; witness testimony preparation and preparation of documents for other types of immigration relief.