Director: Prof. Peter L. Markowitz

Initiated at the law school in 2008, the Immigration Justice Clinic responds to the vital need today for quality legal representation for indigent immigrants facing deportation, while also providing students with invaluable hands-on lawyering experience. The clinic represents immigrants facing deportation before federal immigration authorities and in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and represents immigrant community-based organizations on litigation and advocacy projects.  Peter L. Markowitz, a practicing attorney and full-time clinical assistant professor, is the director.

NEWS: July 22, 2009: Clinic releases report indicating constitutional violations by ICE agents. See press release and the full report.

Read the press release from February 4, 2009 on the uncovering of secret Bush-era immigration failures. It includes a copy of new data and a previously secret memorandum from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.