On February 7, 2019, the Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice, in co-sponsorship with the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey (APALA-NJ) and Rutgers-Newark APALSA held a Film Screening of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. In the wake of 2008 financial crisis, Abacus Federal Savings Bank was the only bank criminally indicted and accused of mortgage fraud by the District Attorney of Manhattan, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. Abacus catered to the Chinese immigrant community, and was founded by Thomas Sung, who migrated at the age of 16 to the United States, attended law school, and eventually moved […]
In celebration of Black History Month, the Rutgers Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice, and Association of Black Law Students (ABLS) hosted a lecture by speaker Professor Martha Jones from John Hopkins University, along with further comments by Professor Elise Boddie. This lecture, which drew a standing room, enlightened audiences with the origins and struggle for birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a person acquires birthright citizenship based on being born in the United States. Professor Jones’s book, Birthright Citizen, offers a new historical perspective on how free African Americans fought […]