Link to register: http://bit.ly/SEADeportationsCLE
Defending the Southeast Asian Community from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Part 1
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:00 - 3:00 pm
A Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Course: 2.0 CLE Credits - Free
1.5 Skills credit – non-transitional/transitional (attorneys admitted less than two-years) – and 0.5 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias credit – non-transitional only.
This webinar series offers CLE credit for New York attorneys. Attorneys in other states are welcome to attend this series, but will have to seek CLE credit through the state they are admitted.
This two-part webinar series is open to all immigration attorneys nationally, new and experienced, who are interested in learning more about the Southeast Asian deportation crisis, legal strategies that are instrumental in fighting deportations, and partnering with us to provide legal support and representation to Southeast Asian community members facing removal.
Forty years ago, Southeast Asians from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam arrived in the US as part of the largest refugee resettlement program in US history. In the US, the Southeast Asian community has continued to be one of the most vulnerable immigrant communities, with ICE targeting Southeast Asians for mass deportation in the past two decades. Across the country, there are 16,000 Southeast Asians who have removal orders, with most of these removal orders based on past criminal convictions. These removal orders force many Southeast Asians to return to countries they fled as refugee babies or children. As deportations escalate within the Southeast Asian community, deportations continue to be a crisis that tears Southeast Asian families and communities apart.
“Defending Southeast Asians from ICE’s Deportation Machine” is presented by the Northeast Region Pardon Project in partnership with Immigrant Defense Project, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the National Lawyers Guild - New York City Chapter.
The Northeast Region Pardon Project is a collective of community-based and advocacy organizations that serve the Southeast Asian community in the northeast region, and have come together around a coordinated community-based anti-deportation strategy. This Project includes: Asian American Resource Workshop, Greater Boston Legal Services’ Asian Outreach Unit, Mekong NYC, Providence Youth Student Movement, Southeast Asian Defense Project, and VietLead.
For further information, please contact Socheatta Meng, Director at the Southeast Asian Defense Project at smeng@seadefense.org.
Under CLE regulations, credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing the entire program; attorneys attending only part of the program are not eligible for CLE credit. Certificates will be sent upon receipt of completed affirmation of attendance and evaluation forms following the program.
The New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of Continuing Legal Education in New York State