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Asylum Law Basics: Protecting Immigrants from Persecution (3-22-22)

This training will cover the legal requirements for protecting immigrants from deportation by seeking asylum. Learn the basics rules, the bars to asylum, related forms of protection, gather evidence, proving that your client is credible, and how to work with severely traumatized clients. The asylum basics will help you to perform an initial analysis of new client’s asylum claims.

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  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 0.50
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.50
  • Format
    On-Demand/Recorded - Audio/Video File
  • Practice Area(s)
    Immigration
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 4 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Rex Chen (Speaker)

    Rex (he, him) is the Immigration Director for Legal Services NYC, the largest civil legal services provider in the country. He spoke in 2022 on a panel about structural racism in immigration law at AILA’s annual conference. He is Taiwanese-American and had a chance to work with activists Yuri Kochiyama and Kazu Iijima to overturn an immigrant’s wrongful murder conviction. He chaired AILA’s 2023 Litigation Institute and received an AILA President’s Commendation in 2023. He is an expert on suppression motions in immigration court and has won a Third Circuit appeal involving the interplay between a United Nations Convention and immigration law.
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    Isabel Heine (Speaker)

    • Isabel works with the Bronx Immigrant Rights and Advocacy Project at Bronx Legal Services. Ms. Heine is a 2014 graduate of Seton Hall Law School where she pursued a Concentration in Health Law and was honored for her outstanding contribution to the Immigrants’ Rights and International Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall’s Center for Social Justice. Thereafter, Ms. Heine joined Bronx Legal Services. In her practice, Ms. Heine represents the borough’s immigrants, with a focus on survivors of trauma, in a holistic practice that addresses their family law needs in addition to their immigration cases. These matters include orders of protection and custody and visitation cases, as well as asylum, U/T visas, VAWA self-petitions, SIJS petitions, and many other forms of immigration relief in an affirmative and defensive posture. Ms. Heine regularly conducts community outreach throughout the Bronx, provides trainings on various Immigration Law topics as well as Electronic Evidence in New York State Courts, and has testified on behalf of Legal Services NYC in hearings before the New York City Council on issues affecting immigrants.