GRANT ICE During the Obama administration, when the government
adhered more consistently to legal protocols and standards, the overwhelming majority of clients met the standard necessary for release from detention to fight their immigration cases in the community. During the Trump administration, a fusillade of policy and practice changes undercut clients’ ability to successfully navigate the process and violated a broad range of federal and international legal obligations. The Project’s efforts have shifted in the wake of the pandemic. In the immigration arena, the federal government has justified rapid and even drastic changes to asylum, ostensibly based on the public health grounds and the pandemic. Given the dearth of information reaching students, lawyers, and the public on the policies and their impacts, the center has worked with its student organization partner, IAP, to develop webinars in a series titled Immigrant Rights in the Time of COVID-19 . Programs to date have attracted hundreds of participants.
STUDENT SERVICE TRIPS ORGANIZEDWITH THE IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY PROJECT August 2018 12 law student volunteers; 2 other volunteers January 2019 4 law student volunteers; 1 Fordham College volunteer March 2019 14 law student volunteers August 2019 10 law student volunteers March 2020 trip canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
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