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In conservative and anti-immigrant areas, it may not be possible to pass sweeping sanctuary laws that prohibit collaboration between local law enforcement agencies and ICE. This is especially true if anti-sanctuary statutes like Texas’ SB 4 and Florida’s SB 168 prevent such measures by state law. However, many of us are fighting back against ICE enforcement in all kinds of new and creative ways that connect criminal justice reforms and immigrant rights. This webinar will provide organizers and advocates with information about how to effectively strategize in “red” regions to build successful campaigns, create policy platforms and limit ICE’s reach in our communities.

This webinar will give you key communications tools to uplift a values-based narrative and push back against anti-immigrant scapegoating, in support of the VISION Act (pending state bill which strengthens CA Values Act) and other similar policy asks. We know that hateful forces are trying to vilify and criminalize our communities. But when we uplift our values, our vision, and our stories, we can shift the bounds of what's possible. 

Level: Intermediate - Immigration and Criminal Defense CounselThe categorical approach is perhaps the single most important tool for defending a noncitizen who has been charged with or convicted of a crime. But while the Supreme Court clarified and strengthened this defense in decisions culminating in U.S. v. Mathis (2016), it took a sharp step backward in Pereida v. Wilkinson (2021). In this interactive webinar, experts will take participants step-by-step through how to use the approach to protect clients in immigration and criminal proceedings, and how to avoid or limit the effect of Pereida.PresentersKathy BradyKathy Brady is a Staff Attorney based in San Francisco. She has worked with the ILRC since 1987. Along with expertise in family immigration, immigrant children and youth, and removal defense, she is a national expert on the intersection of immigration and criminal law. She is a frequent speaker and consultant, and has co-authored several manuals including Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (ILRC), California Criminal Defense of Immigrants (CEB), the chapter on representing immigrants in California Criminal Law – Procedure and Practice (CEB), and Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts (ILRC). She helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy served as a Commissioner to the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. In 2007 she received the Carol King award of advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

ICE detainers are a central tool of immigration enforcement that affect many or most non-citizen defendants. This webinar will discuss the many state law and constitutional limitations of ICE detainers, including the recent class action and injunction from the Gonzalez v. ICE litigation in central California. We will also cover ICE detainers’ impact on the criminal case and the particular risks for clients subject to detainers. Finally, we’ll discuss methods to challenge detainers or mitigate the potential harms on clients. 

Over the years, whistleblowers and journalists have shed some light on the ways that the U.S. government uses sophisticated technology to spy on residents living in the United States. Although there is much more to learn in this space, there is an even greater lack of transparency on how similar technology is being used specifically on our immigrant communities. This webinar will provide a birds-eye-view of some of the ways in which ICE exploits data-sharing and new surveillance technologies in their massive deportation machine to identify, track, locate, and arrest immigrants.