CLE Training: Ethical Representation: Serving Clients with Criminal Contacts
Contact with the criminal legal system can create unique risks and complications for an immigrant client. The Immigrant Defense Project Helpline provides individualized analysis of the effect of any contact with the criminal legal system on a person’s immigration status, and gives clear, accurate, individualized advice to legal service providers by serving as crim-imm experts. This training is intended to … Read more »
CLE Training: ICE Detainers in NYC: The Impact on State Criminal Cases
ICE detainers are a key component of ICE’s detention-to-deportation pipeline. An ICE detainer is an administrative request to state or local law enforcement to detain individuals who would otherwise be released, or notify ICE in advance of release, so that ICE can arrest the person. State and local law enforcement are not required to honor detainers but many do. ICE … Read more »
CLE Training: Family Defense Practice for Noncitizen Respondents in Article 10 Proceedings
Article 10 proceedings in New York State Family Court can create unique risks and complications for a noncitizen respondent. Actions taken in family court, such as admissions to non-citizen status, findings that the respondent has violated an order of protection, or findings of abuse and neglect, may lead directly to immigration consequences. This training is intended to provide information to … Read more »
CLE Training: Crim-Imm 101: Understanding Immigration Status for Defense Attorneys
In 2010 the Supreme Court decided Padilla v. Kentucky, holding the 6th Amendment requires criminal defense counsel to advise non-citizen clients about the immigration consequences that could arise from the decision to plead guilty or go to trial. Since Padilla was decided, it has become more necessary than ever for defense attorneys to advise immigrant clients about not only immigration … Read more »
CLE Training: Practice Tips for Representing Immigrant Clients with Criminal System Contacts in Affirmative Applications
Contact with the criminal legal system can create unique risks and complications for an immigrant client. The Immigrant Defense Project hotline provides individualized analysis of the effect of any contact with the criminal legal system on a person’s immigration status, and gives clear, accurate, individualized advice to legal service providers by serving as crim-imm experts. This training is intended to … Read more »
CLE Training: Steps to Analyze the Immigration Impact of Criminal Contact and Convictions for Immigrant Clients
What you will learn: Contact with the criminal legal system can create unique risks and complications for an immigrant client. The Immigrant Defense Project Helpline provides individualized analysis of the effect of any contact with the criminal legal system on a person’s immigration status and gives clear, accurate, individualized advice to legal service providers by serving as “crim-imm” experts. This … Read more »
Legal Service Provider CLEs – Spring 2021 Series
Description IDP is offering a free online training series in the months of May and June. The goal of this series is to train immigration attorneys and advocates, DOJ-accredited representatives, and support staff on issues at the intersection of criminal law and immigration law. The series will cover issues related to advising clients who have had contact with the criminal … Read more »
CLE Training: Understanding your Client’s Contact with the Criminal Legal System in New York City
What you will learn: Contact with the criminal legal system can create unique risks and complications for an immigrant client. Immigration practitioners may have situations where they represent an immigrant who separately has an open criminal case in New York City and may not feel comfortable advising criminal defense counsel on how to resolve it. This training is intended to … Read more »
Eyes on ICE – Information on documenting encounters with immigration agents
Para leer información sobre este seminario web, hacer click aquí | Part 1: Know Your Rights & Practical Tips for Filming ICE Part 2 of EYES ON ICE: Community approaches to documenting and organizing around encounters with immigration agents Watch the recording here As Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) expands the deportation system, communities and grassroots groups are continuing to fight back, … Read more »
TRAINING: Oct. 22, 2016 Crimes & Immigration Seminar in NYC
A Day-Long CLE-Accredited Seminar on the Categorical Approach, Crimes of Violence, and Particularly Serious Crimes. Register Now! Read more »
Protected: Background and Resources: August 2, 2016 CLE for Regional Immigration Assistance Center Staff
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Nov 2, 2013 Crimes & Immigration Seminar
On November 2, 2013, IDP, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the Law Offices of Norton Tooby hosted our annual Crimes & Immigration Seminar for immigration and criminal defense attorneys at the NYU School of Law. National expert faculty Norton Tooby, Sejal Zota, Dan Kesselbrenner, and IDP’s own Manny Vargas, Dawn Seibert, and Isaac Wheeler presented the latest developments … Read more »
4/29 IJN Telebriefing Criminal Bars to Immigration Reform
Register here. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Criminal Bars to Immigration Reform: Creating a Pathway to Citizenship for All Immigrants Monday April 29, 2pm EST/11am PST The Immigrant Justice Network, a collaboration between the Immigrant Defense Project, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, … Read more »
National Training on February 21 & 22, 2013 in NYC
IDP, along with ILRC, co-sponsored a two-day naturalization training for attorneys and immigration service providers in New York City on February 21-22, 2013. During this training, IDP led a four-hour workshop on how a criminal incident can affect a naturalization application and why some naturalization applicants could be placed in deportation proceedings based on contact with the criminal justice system. … Read more »
DACA Legal Clinic on September 24
IDP and the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) are co-sponsoring a legal clinic for people eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (see DACA guidelines here) at NYIC’s office on September 24 from 6p to 9p. For more information, contact info[at]immigrantdefenseproject[dot]org.
September 22 New York Crimes and Immigration Seminar
IDP co-sponsors the New York Crimes and Immigration Seminar at NYU on September 22, 2012. Please join us for a cutting edge crim-imm training and discussion, featuring a session on Post-Conviction Relief (PCR) Padilla developments. Further details and registration here: https://nortontooby.com/content/new-york-crimes-immigration-seminar-fall-2012#node-18849
126 defenders, 31 states, 1 national training
The Defending Immigrants Partnership (DIP) held its Sixth National Training on Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions in Denver in May 2012. DIP Partners IDP, ILRC and NIPNLG trained 126 attorneys from public defender offices in 31 states on crim-imm law, advising immigrant clients, strategies to avoid deportability and institutionalizing Padilla in defender offices. Attendees were nominated by their chief defender or … Read more »
Free Prosecutorial Discretion Clinic for Individuals Facing Deportation
LEARN HOW TO SUBMIT PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION REQUESTS Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6 to 9 p.m. 137-139 West 25th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY The New York Immigration Coalition, New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Immigrant Defense Project would like to invite your members to a training on submitting prosecutorial discretion applications. This training is … Read more »
Jan 31 and Feb 1: “Padilla in Practice” trainings for criminal defense attorneys
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Defending Immigrants Partnership present three new webinars providing IMMIGRATION LAW ESSENTIALS for defense lawyers. Join online or in-person in DC. Register here.