Habeas Corpus: Advanced Legal Strategies for Getting Clients Released in a System That Focuses on Detention
| Live Event Date: 06/06/2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | No |
Since the beginning of the second Trump Administration, the executive and legislative branches of the government have escalated the use of detention and removal: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is re-detaining large numbers of individuals previously released on parole; the Laken Riley Act reduces the availability of immigration judge bonds for individuals with certain convictions (or even arrests); the administration is revoking and terminating parole on a mass scale; and third-country removals are increasing. As a result, ICE is now detaining an increasing number of noncitizens who are not eligible to seek a bond from an immigration judge. Habeas corpus can be the most effective remedy to obtain a client’s release from detention. Expert panelists will discuss advanced legal strategies using habeas corpus to face these unprecedented challenges.
Featured Topics:
- Recent developments in venue, personal jurisdiction, immediate custodian/proper respondents, custody status, mootness
- Statutory and constitutional underpinnings, categories of noncitizens eligible to seek relief
- Remedies
- Novel uses of habeas corpus to confront unprecedented executive actions
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Leah L. Chavarria (DL), AILA Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee/ICE Liaison Committee, San Diego, CA
Leah L. Chavarria is a senior associate at Hurwitz Holt, APLC, where she specializes in complex federal litigation, removal defense, asylum, humanitarian protection, family petitions, waivers, and naturalization. For nearly five years prior to returning to private practice, Leah directed, designed, and oversaw legal strategy, policy, and training at Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFSSD), while representing folks before state and federal courts and DHS. Leah has participated in AILA's National Day of Action four times, served three years on the ICE Committee, two years on the Federal Court Litigation Steering Committee, and chaired the San Diego Chapter from 2020-21.
Mark A. Prada, AILA Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee Chair/Benefits Litigation Committee, Miami, FL
Mark A. Prada is a founding member of Prada Dominguez, PLLC. He primarily devotes his time to federal court litigation, including challenges against agency actions and policies of USCIS, habeas work against ICE, FOIA actions against federal agencies, challenges to agency action and policies of other federal agencies, and petitions for review of BIA decisions and other appellate work. Mark began his legal career by representing victims of domestic violence and other crimes as part of a nonprofit organization and eventually opened his own practice. He grew up in Miami and is the son of Colombian immigrants.
Simon Y. Sandoval-Moshenberg, AILA Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee/Benefits Litigation Committee, Fairfax, VA
Simon Y. Sandoval-Moshenberg is a partner and head of litigation at Murray Osorio PLLC. He has litigated immigration cases in individual and class actions, including district court, Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging immigration detention of adults and children. Simon serves on AILA's Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee and the Benefits Litigation Committee. He helped develop the curriculum for AILA's Federal Court Litigation course and is one of the faculty members teaching other immigration lawyers how to sue the government on immigration issues and providing crucial litigation strategies for all. Simon graduated from Yale Law School (2008).
Laura P. Lunn, Westminster, CO
Laura P. Lunn is the Director of Advocacy & Litigation at Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), a nonprofit organization that primarily works with children, families, and detained adults. She also teaches an Asylum Law & Advocacy Practicum each spring at the University of Denver. Laura clerked for the El Paso Immigration Courts through the U.S. Attorney General’s Honors Program, attended the University of Iowa College of Law, and earned her BA at Colgate University.
