U.S. Immigration Enforcement at the Southern Border: A First-hand Account of the Human Crisis

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U.S. Immigration Enforcement at the Southern Border: A First-hand Account of the Legal and Humanitarian Crisis at the Mexico-Arizona Border with Hillary Farber

Law Professor Hillary Farber will share her expertise and first-hand account of the humanitarian crisis facing those seeking asylum in the U.S. She will speak about the five months she spent at the southern border working for the Florence Immigration and Refugee Rights Project. The Project represents detained immigrants in removal proceedings. Professor Farber also volunteered with humanitarian aid groups to assist migrants crossing the border. She will relate her experiences from migrant shelters in Nogales, Sonora, to the Department of Homeland Security detention centers and U.S. Immigration courts.

Hillary Farber is a law professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Law. She teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence. A former public defender, Professor Farber found her way back into the trenches when she chose to spend her sabbatical working as a volunteer lawyer for a fabulous organization representing detained immigrants in Arizona – the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project

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