Immigration and asylum law in the United States., Students will work with instructor on several, asylum cases for which instructor serves as expert, witness for country conditions. Countries we cover, include Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador,, and Venezuela. Asylum claims including political, persecution, drug cartel and gang violence, sexual, violence, and gender and sexual orientation-based, discrimination. Guest speakers will include, immigration lawyers, immigration advocates, and, immigration law professors. Students will apply, liberal-arts research and writing skills to draft, declarations for asylum petitioners, and they will, work in teams on several cases during the, semester, participating in intake interviews with, clients to hearings before an immigration judge., Sophomore standing required.
- Teacher: Elliott Young