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    Rights of Immigrants

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    The Rights of Immigrants Committee is the recipient of the 2020 Sheila Y. Thomas Committee Excellence Award for advancing civil rights, human rights, and social justice. During the 2019-20 bar year, in response to an immigration crisis of extraordinary proportions, the committee launched a national webinar series exploring the subject at the intersection of national security law, public international law, and US constitutional law. The series garnered national attention and thousands of registrants.

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    A Social Justice Policy Summit: A New Administration | December 8-9, 2021

    On December 8 and 9, the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice Rights of Immigrants Committee–in strategic partnership with the ABA Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice–hosted a policy summit designed to advance racial equity and social justice principles. Over the course of two days, the interdisciplinary conference explored myriad manifestations of interpersonal, structural, and institutionalized discrimination to create enhanced awareness around these issues. The convening will culminate in concrete community-driven policy recommendations to achieve positive social, political, and legal reform.

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    2020 US Elections Aftermath: A Social Justice Policy Summit

    In the wake of the 2020 US presidential elections, the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice Rights of Immigrants Committee - in strategic partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States - hosted a policy summit on December 9-10, 2020 designed to advance racial equity and social justice principles. Over the course of two days, the interdisciplinary conference explored myriad manifestations of interpersonal, structural, and institutionalized discrimination to create enhanced awareness around these issues. The convening also culminated in concrete community-driven policy recommendations to achieve positive social, political, and legal reform to ensure a better tomorrow for all.

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    ABA Journal Publishes Policy Recommendations for Second Annual Summit

    The Committee's second annual policy summit was designed to advance racial equity and social justice principles. Among the topics were immigration laws, the legislative backlash against voting rights, racial justice protests, critical race theory, reigning in drone warfare and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The conference culminated in a slate of policy recommendations that the ABA Journal recently published.

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    Human Rights Magazine Vol. 45, No. 2: Immigration

    "Our country is full.” Those four searing words encapsulate immigration policy under the Trump administration. President Donald Trump initially uttered, and subsequently retweeted, his message while touring a piece of the barrier wall in a California border community last year. Significantly, it succinctly conveys the exclusionary, nativist agenda that has influenced its legal approach over the last three years.

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    Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice & NYU Review of Law & Social Change Joint Online Symposium is Available Now!

    This collection of articles and event panel transcripts arose from the six-part Immigration Webinar Series hosted by the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice's Rights of Immigrants Committee from November 2019 to April 2020. The webinar series explored immigration at the intersection of national security law, public international law and U.S. constitutional law, among other areas.

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    Immigration Webinar Series

    This six-part national lecture series explores immigration at the intersection of national security law, public international law and US constitutional law, among other legal areas. During these free webinars, legal scholars, practitioners and political commentators will address this deepening crises in our collective pursuit advancing law and justice.

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