Staff

Benita Jain

Benita Jain

Supervising Attorney

Benita, formerly co-Director of IDP, now leads IDP’s work with the Defending Immigrants Partnership, a national collaboration that trains public defenders on immigration consequences of criminal convictions and assists defender offices in setting up office-wide immigration advisal programs. Benita also monitors and analyzes legislative proposals affecting immigrants who have interacted with the criminal justice system and has supported IDP’s litigation efforts. She has written several pro se guides for immigrants fighting deportation and is an original co-author of the “Deportation 101” curriculum. She is a past Board member of Families for Freedom and past Steering Committee member of the Detention Watch Network. She is a graduate of New York University School of Law.

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