Introduction to Immigration Consequences of Crimes

This webinar provides an overview and basic framework for analyzing the immigration consequences of crimes. It covers obtaining criminal records; determining whether your client has a conviction and the immigration consequences of such a conviction; and provides answers to common criminal questions that come up in I-485 or N-400 applications.

Presenters:
Angie Junck, ILRC Staff Attorney
Part of Angie’s work at the ILRC focuses on the relationship between immigration and criminal law. She is a co-author of ILRC's publication, Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit, and the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions. Her efforts to mitigate the difficult immigration consequences for criminal convictions of immigrants is at the core of the ILRC's Defending Immigrants Project, which assists public defenders and the Immigrant Justice Network, a project to build a movement to shift public perception of immigrants in the criminal justice system. Angie is a co-chair of the Detention Watch Network's Public Awareness Committee and is on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Prior to joining the ILRC, she worked on post-conviction relief for immigrants at the Law Offices of Norton Tooby and advocated on behalf of incarcerated survivors of domestic violence as the co-coordinator of Free Battered Women and a member of the Habeas Project. 

Dan Torres, former ILRC Staff Attorney
Dan’s work included combating immigration provider fraud, conducting know your rights presentations, providing technical assistance to pro bono attorneys who are handling cases in the federal courts of appeals, and serving as the ILRC’s Attorney of the Day. He is also the co-author of ILRC's publications, Asylum and Related Immigration Protections and Motions to Suppress. Before joining the ILRC, Dan represented clients as a staff attorney at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation in Sacramento, worked as a clinical instructor at the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, and served as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.