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December 2010
“THE NEW ICE AGE: A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE EXPANDING USE OF IMMIGRATION DETAINERS BY U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT”
- The expert panel will cover a number of topics of importance to criminal, civil rights, and immigration attorneys including: What is an immigration detainer? Who can issue a detainer? What is the legal authority for the detainer regime? What can you do when your client is held on an immigration detainer?
- What are the latest legal challenges to the detainer system including an update on Quezada v. Mink (filed by the ACLU of Colorado earlier this year)?
- What are the legal implications and real-life consequences of the federal government's new “Secure Communities” program and other enforcement programs in including 287(g) agreements and the Criminal Alien Program?
SPEAKERS:
Professor Christopher Lasch has been litigating to protect his clients' constitutional rights since 1996. After graduating from Yale Law School, Chris worked for three years as a public defender in Louisville, Kentucky. He represented hundreds of clients in the adult trial division and was a member of the capital trial division for nearly two years. In 2000, Chris partnered with another former defender to form a small private law firm dedicated to criminal defense and civil rights litigation. He continued to represent those accused of crimes in Kentucky's trial courts, and broadened his practice to include appellate, postconviction, and federal habeas corpus litigation on behalf of convicted prisoners. His firm brought civil rights actions and tried civil rights cases in both state and federal courts. In 2006, Chris became a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Yale Law School, where he taught in numerous clinics, including the Capital Punishment Clinic, Criminal Defense Project, and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. After serving as a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor at the Suffolk University Law School during the 2009-10 academic year, where as a teacher of the Suffolk Defenders Clinic he supervised students defending criminal cases in the Boston Municipal Court system, Chris came to the University of Denver Sturm College of Law to teach in the Criminal Representation Clinic. His scholarship focuses on the availability of constitutional remedies in federal habeas and state postconviction litigation, and on the intersection of criminal and immigration law.
Hans Meyer, Policy Director, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. Hans grew up in Aurora, Colorado and graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Global Studies. After college, Hans worked as a forest firefighter and spent several years living and working in Latin America. Hans attended the evening program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, graduating in 2006. During law school, Hans pursued interests in immigration law and criminal defense. After passing the bar, Hans spent four years as a trial attorney in the Denver office of the Colorado State Public Defender. In addition, Hans also provided training and technical assistance to attorneys throughout the state regarding the immigration consequences of contact with the criminal justice system. He is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Immigration Project, the National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU of Colorado, and the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar.
Mark Silverstein, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado. Mark Silverstein is a 1989 graduate of the Illinois College of Law. He served for a year as law clerk to Judge James Moran of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and another year as law clerk for Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1991, he began working as a staff attorney for the ACLU of Southern California in Los Angeles. Since 1996, he has worked as Legal Director of the ACLU of Colorado, where he oversees the ACLU's litigation in a wide variety of cases raising issues of civil liberties and constitutional rights.
David Harston (moderator) is a partner at Elkind Alterman Harston PC and has been practicing immigration law exclusively, including business, family, asylum and deportation defense, since 1999. David is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, serves on the Executive Council for the Immigration Law Section (2009-11), and served as the Section Chair (2009-10). He has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyer's Association since 1999, served on the AILA Colorado Chapter's Executive Committee from 2004 to 2009, and was the Chapter Chair for AILA Colorado from 2007-2008. David graduated from the University of Denver with a law degree and a master's degree in International Studies. He received a Public Interest Law Group Grant to clerk at the Center for Human Rights Advocacy in Boulder. David also interned in the Human Rights Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, founded by former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. www.eahimmigration.com
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