Alert: View AILA’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center
Alert: View AILA’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center
A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
AILA's Featured Issues pages provide a one-stop shop on current immigration-related issues that AILA is actively tracking. This includes government actions and resources, AILA's policy recommendations, and materials and talking points to engage with Congress and the press.
Start Your Research
The AILA Career Center offers more than access to the best possible industry candidates.
AILA Doc. No. 20052835 | Dated May 21, 2020
On May 21, 2020, AILA and the American Immigration Council, through their joint initiative, the Immigration Justice Campaign, hosted a telebriefing targeted to Hill staffers, which discussed the U.S. treatment of immigrants in detention. This briefing highlighted the U.S. government’s failure to take urgent action to stem the spread of COVID-19 within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. This briefing included policy recommendations from Katy Murdza, Advocacy Manager at the Immigration Justice Campaign, Greg Chen, Senior Director of Government Relations at AILA, and the story of Eva, a former detainee at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and Cuban asylum seeker.
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 20052835.
American Immigration Lawyers Association
1331 G Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Copyright © 1993-2020
American Immigration Lawyers Association.
