IDP and National Immigration Project issue practice advisory to identify ways immigrants and their advocates can use unfavorable Supreme Court Nijhawan v. Holder decision to support immigrant defense arguments in other cases

IDP coordinates defense organizations' brief asking the Sup. Ct. to allow an immigrant to withdraw a guilty plea made based on incorrect legal advice that the plea would not trigger deportation

IDP joins others in asking AG Holder to withdraw prior AG opinion that unfairly allows immigrants to be deported based on allegations of criminal conduct not found by the criminal court

IDP issues practice advisory to support challenges to agency decision sanctioning deporting an immigrant before his criminal appeal is decided

IDP supports various court and agency challenges to overreaching interpretations of the aggravated felony mandatory deportation ground

 

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The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), formerly an initiative of the New York State Defenders Association, defends the legal, constitutional and human rights of immigrants facing criminal or deportation charges.  We are the nation's first project founded to respond to the devastating 1996 immigration laws that placed hundreds of thousands of immigrants at risk of mandatory detention and deportation for virtually any interaction with the criminal justice system.

IDP promotes a transformation of the criminal justice and immigration systems so that they do not result in the exile of immigrants from their homes and families in the United States .  We also seek to minimize deportation and detention under current laws for immigrants facing criminal charges or subsequent deportation.

 
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