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Join our webinar about the new immigration enforcement priorities, to learn messaging and framing to approach these priorities in an individual case, and learn some organizing and advocacy tips to elevate individual cases to members of congress and DHS Headquarters. Advocacy and public pressure to stop someone’s deportation is not a new strategy in the immigrant rights movement. During the Obama administration advocates and organizers experienced success when promoting an individual case publicly, and received many favorable decisions from DHS.  The enforcement priorities and discretion memo from the Biden administration presents a new avenue to fight deportations and build our movement.

Join our webinar about the new immigration enforcement priorities, to learn messaging and framing to approach these priorities in an individual case, and learn some organizing and advocacy tips to elevate individual cases to members of congress and DHS Headquarters. Advocacy and public pressure to stop someone’s deportation is not a new strategy in the immigrant rights movement. During the Obama administration advocates and organizers experienced success when promoting an individual case publicly, and received many favorable decisions from DHS.  The enforcement priorities and discretion memo from the Biden administration presents a new avenue to fight deportations and build our movement.

The fourth edition of DACA: The Essential Legal Guide is an updated, comprehensive, and practice-oriented overview of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This thorough and user-friendly manual consists of nine easy to read and understand chapters and appendices, covering the DACA eligibility requirements, the entire process of representing a DACA applicant from the initial client meeting to the closing of the client case, a detailed discussion of the criminal bars to DACA, tips on how to help clients obtain the necessary documentation to apply, best practices on how to fill out all of the immigration forms, and helpful suggestions on both procedural issues and ways to effectively work with DACA applicants.

Families & Immigration: A Practical Guide is an essential tool for practitioners who assist in all aspects of family-sponsored immigration. This resource is designed for everyday practice by new and seasoned immigration attorneys, immigration paralegals, community-based organizations, and family immigration advocates.

The UndocuBlack Network is connecting potential Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness (LRIF) applicants with vital information to ensure that as many individuals as possible apply before the December 2021 deadline. This webinar will detail special considerations for attorneys representing LRIF applicants, including the LRIF adjustment eligibility criteria, how to screen clients, and practice tips for filing successful applications. We will also briefly cover how to file a FOIA so that applicants and advocates are well-informed about an individual’s immigration history. You’ll also have a chance to hear the first-hand experience of a successful applicant and learn about important areas of continuing policy advocacy for practitioners and advocates alike.

This Webinar will offer an overview of the Texas v United States decision and what it means for current DACA recipients and DACA-eligible individuals. We will also provide considerations for practitioners as they advise community members about their legal options and possible next steps in finding a permanent solution.

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Level: IntermediateLiberian Refugee Immigration Fairness (LRIF) is a limited-term program that allows many Liberians and their family members living in the U.S. to apply for permanent residence. Applications must be filed by December 20, 2021. This webinar will summarize LRIF eligibility requirements and application process, as well as describing the administrative guidance for the program. The speakers will also provide practice tips.PresentersAnn BlockAnn Block is a part-time Senior Special Projects Attorney with the ILRC based in Davis and San Francisco. She has been with the ILRC part-time since 2009 on a contract basis, and in 2019 transitioned to a staff position.  She also maintains a part-time private practice in Davis, California. Ann has expertise in family immigration, naturalization and citizenship, VAWA and U visas, asylum, removal defense, as well as extensive experience with immigration consequences of criminal convictions. She provides technical assistance through the ILRC’s Attorney of the Day program, mentoring and assisting nonprofit attorneys and staff, public defenders and private attorneys with a wide variety of immigration law questions and cases.

Level: BeginnerThis webinar will help advocates understand how the immigration detention and deportation system works for unaccompanied children (UCs), whether they migrated alone or with a parent or other family member and were later separated. It will help demystify the maze of immigration policies and procedures that apply specifically to UCs, including a discussion of which children are classified as UCs, the federal agencies that interact with UCs, the detention and release process for UCs, and updates on how the Biden Administration has responded to increased numbers of UCs.PresentersRachel Prandini, Staff Attorney - ILRCRachel is one of ILRC’s staff attorneys based in San Francisco. Rachel focuses on immigrant youth issues, including unaccompanied minors and immigrant youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Rachel provides technical assistance and trainings to immigration and state court attorneys, social workers, and judges. She works on statewide and national policy that affects the rights of immigrant youth and is frequently consulted for her expertise in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Rachel co-authored the ILRC’s publication Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and Other Immigration Options for Children and Youth.

Level: Intermediate - Immigration and Criminal Defense CounselThe categorical approach is perhaps the single most important tool for defending a noncitizen who has been charged with or convicted of a crime. But while the Supreme Court clarified and strengthened this defense in decisions culminating in U.S. v. Mathis (2016), it took a sharp step backward in Pereida v. Wilkinson (2021). In this interactive webinar, experts will take participants step-by-step through how to use the approach to protect clients in immigration and criminal proceedings, and how to avoid or limit the effect of Pereida.PresentersKathy BradyKathy Brady is a Staff Attorney based in San Francisco. She has worked with the ILRC since 1987. Along with expertise in family immigration, immigrant children and youth, and removal defense, she is a national expert on the intersection of immigration and criminal law. She is a frequent speaker and consultant, and has co-authored several manuals including Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (ILRC), California Criminal Defense of Immigrants (CEB), the chapter on representing immigrants in California Criminal Law – Procedure and Practice (CEB), and Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts (ILRC). She helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy served as a Commissioner to the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. In 2007 she received the Carol King award of advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

Level: IntermediateThis webinar will provide updates and changes to the DACA policy, lessons learned from DACA, and how to create a long term strategy for the DACA recipients.

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Level: BeginnerThis webinar will help advocates understand expedited removal and reinstatement of removal, including how to help clients who have been subjected to such summary removal procedures. We will cover how advocates may be able to move to reopen orders of expedited removal and reinstatement of removal, including practice tips.PresentersErin Quinn, Senior Staff Attorney - ILRCErin Quinn is an attorney based in San Francisco. Her work focuses on building capacity of organizations and practitioners to assist immigrants. She conducts trainings on immigration law throughout the United States and provides legal expertise through the ILRC’s Attorney of the Day program. Erin has contributed to numerous ILRC publications as author or editor, including Removal Defense: Defending Immigrants in Immigration Court; Essentials of Asylum and many others. In addition, Erin works on issues related to immigration status and healthcare as well as consumer protection. She has published articles with LexisNexis Emerging Issues and American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Level: IntermediateThis webinar will cover the adjustment process for U petitioners and their family members, including derivatives as well as I-929 qualifying family members at the adjustment stage. Using examples, this webinar will discuss common issues that arise in U adjustment cases and provide practice tips for responding to RFEs and denials.PresentersAlison Kamhi, Supervising Attorney - ILRCAlison Kamhi is a Supervising Attorney based in San Francisco. Alison is a dedicated immigrant advocate who brings significant experience in immigration law to the ILRC. Alison leads the ILRC's Immigrant Survivors Team and conducts frequent in-person and webinar trainings on naturalization and citizenship, family-based immigration, U visas, and FOIA requests. She also provides technical assistance through the ILRC’s Attorney of the Day program on a wide range of immigration issues, including immigration options for youth, consequences of criminal convictions for immigration purposes, removal defense strategy, and eligibility for immigration relief, including family-based immigration, U visas, VAWA, DACA, cancellation of removal, asylum, and naturalization. 

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Level: IntermediateThis webinar will explore some of the most common non-crime grounds of inadmissibility. We will review when inadmissibility matters, common pitfalls and the legal elements of important inadmissibility grounds, such as willful misrepresentation, false claims to citizenship, unlawful presence and more.

Level: Intermediate / AdvancedThe field of post-conviction relief is constantly changing. Tune in to hear about newly enacted state laws, new case developments, and new advice for immigrant post-conviction relief practitioners. This webinar will be geared to people who already have some exposure to post-conviction relief.PresentersRose Cahn, Senior Staff Attorney - ILRCRose Cahn is a nationally recognized expert in the field of immigrant post-conviction relief and oversees the ILRC’s pro bono Immigrant Post-Conviction Relief Project.  With over 15 years of experience working in the field of immigrant rights, and a special focus on the intersection of criminal and immigration law, Rose is a frequent speaker and trainer on the subject.  Rose has co-authored several manuals including, California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants (Tooby) and Helping Immigrant Clients with Proposition 47 and Other Post-Conviction Legal Options: A Guide for Legal Service Providers (Californians for Safety and Justice).  Rose spearheads federal, state, and local advocacy to help advance the rights of immigrants with criminal convictions and assist providers in understanding how to better serve this population.  She is one of the principle drafters of California Penal Code § 1473.7, a landmark piece of legislation that created a legal mechanism to vacate unconstitutional convictions. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the National Clean Slate Clearinghouse and is on the Steering Committee of the American Immigrant Representation Project.

Level: IntermediateThis webinar will cover the requirements for obtaining non-LPR cancellation of removal, focusing on how to meet the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship standard. Using examples, this webinar will discuss common types of hardship presented in non-LPR cancellation cases and provide practice tips for meeting the stringent hardship standard.Presenters

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Level: IntermediateThis webinar will discuss FOIA requests in immigration cases and provide tips for filing FOIA requests with DHS, including USCIS, OBIM, ICE and CBP. Researching clients’ case histories may become particularly important if any of the proposed legalization bills are enacted.

Inadmissibility & Deportability is a practical and easy-to-use manual for beginning immigration attorneys, paralegals, nonprofit community-based organizations, and other advocates on the grounds of inadmissibility, deportability, and waivers. Written in plain English and filled with explanatory examples, charts, and practical suggestions, this guide is a go-to resource to assess whether your client is subject to the grounds of inadmissibility or deportability. This manual covers all common grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and features a chapter dedicated to explaining how to assess criminal issues and the grounds of removability.

Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and Other Immigration Options for Children and Youth  is an essential guide for those representing the increased number of unaccompanied minors who have migrated to the United States in recent years, as well as those representing immigrant youth who were brought to the United States at a young age and know no other home. Immigrant children and youth may be eligible for many types of immigration relief, including some available only to children.

DHS has just announced new immigration enforcement priorities. Join our webinar to learn about the recent policy developments and what is on the horizon.  We’ll dig into the details of the new policy and discuss messaging and framing for using this guidance in an individual case, including organizing and advocacy tips to elevate individual cases to members of congress and DHS Headquarters.