Andrew directs IDP’s impact litigation practice to defend the rights of immigrants impacted by the criminal legal system. His work focuses on recognition of post-conviction and sentencing relief for noncitizens, application of the categorical approach, retroactivity, constitutional and due process rights of noncitizens facing criminal charges, and federal court review of agency decisions in criminal-immigration cases. He frequently represents diverse organizations in amicus (“friend of the court”) briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, Circuit Courts of Appeals, Board of Immigration Appeals, and state appellate courts, and provides technical assistance and litigation coordination for individual litigants and their counsel. Andrew previously worked as an immigration attorney at The Bronx Defenders–a holistic public defender office–advising and representing noncitizens with pending cases in criminal and family courts, and representing Bronx residents in immigration proceedings before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and federal district courts. He also worked as a staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center where he provided immigration counsel to public defenders in resource-limited counties across California. He is a commissioner on the ABA’s Commission on Immigration, and graduate of Fordham Law School where he was a Stein Scholar for Public Interest Law and Ethics and Leitner Intern for International Human Rights.
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