The webinar provides an overview of recent efforts to enhance access to legal representation and resources for ICE detainees, as well as the applicable ICE detention standards that inform and support these efforts. The webinar also discusses the importance of the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s Legal Orientation Program (LOP) and other pro bono legal group presentations (“Know Your Rights” presentations) that take place inside ICE detention facilities nationwide. Finally, the webinar discusses the efforts of ICE to provide detainees with access to useful legal materials, including the ABA Know Your Rights Video and other self-help legal resources available in most detention center law libraries.
October 31, 2018 RAPID RESPONSE
Enhancing Detained Individuals Access to Legal Resources and Representation While in ICE Custody
Welcome and Introduction
- Robert Lang, Staff Attorney, ABA Commission on Immigration
Panelists
- Christopher Cady, Policy Advisor, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), Washington, D.C.
- Julie Plavsic, Legal Access Coordinator
Co-Sponsor: ABA Commission on Immigration
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