What is happening with asylum at the border? Is family separation still happening? What was Jeff Sessions doing before he lost his job? Florence Project attorney Dorien Ediger-Seto will speak about the latest updates in immigration law at the U.S.-Mexico border, what it is like to practice deportation defense under the Trump Administration, and how Columbia students can help. Coffee and pastries will be served!
The Florence Project is the only organization that provides free legal and social services to unaccompanied minors and adults detained for deportation proceedings in Arizona. Since its foundation in 1989, the Florence Project has pioneered a pro se assistance popular education model that led to federal funding to assist pro se litigants nationally, advocated for increased representation of people with mental disabilities in removal proceedings, and fought to keep families together in the wake of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy this past summer. Today, the Project is a national leader in removal defense, with over 70 staff working at the front lines of the struggle for due process, human rights, and a just immigration policy on the Arizona-Mexico border.
