Visions for the Future: Ways to Create a Just and Humane Immigration System

2024 Partners for Justice Conference (2)

Visions for the Future: Ways to Create a Just and Humane Immigration System

Room 301: 9:45 AM to 11:00 AM

This panel will touch on best practices when representing individuals before the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). It will also discuss key issues pertaining to removal defense work and how harnessing a community of advocates can help address these issues. The focus of the session will be on the universal representation movement and why provisioning free legal representation, particularly to individuals in ICE detention facilities, matters.

Panelists:

  1. Hon. Lisa DornellRetired Immigration Judge
  2. Professor Maureen Sweeney, Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
  3. Eric Lopez, CAIR Coalition

Moderator: Catherine H. Scenna, Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland