A special project of Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and the campus’s Undocumented Student Program has helped 103 Berkeley students decide whether to apply for a special immigration category that allows them to work legally and to avoid deportation. Most have won approval under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
Tag: immigration policy
Immigration program faulted for wrongful arrests, detentions
October 25, 2011:
Most of those arrested in a fast-growing federal immigration-enforcement program are jailed without bond, access to a lawyer or a court hearing, say researchers at Berkeley Law’s Earl Warren Institute. Based on data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, “Secure Communities by the Numbers” is the first in-depth analysis of the far-reaching information-sharing scheme.
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