Register here: go.rutgers.edu/lawtraining July 10, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Rutgers Law School 123 Washington Street Room 125 Newark, NJ 07102 Pizza and drinks provided. Legal Observer Training – Sign Up Here! Learn how to document law enforcement (including ICE) conduct, support arrested individuals, and help protect First Amendment rights. No legal background needed-just a commitment to justice. All are welcome.
News reports of noncitizens unexpectedly being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have dominated headlines in recent weeks. Those being detained include noncitizens who hold lawful permanent residency status. One story concerns the March 8, 2025, arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident and recent Columbia University graduate, who was initially detained in New Jersey and transported to Louisiana. He remains there while he challenges his detention and the immigration judge’s April 11 decision that he can be deported And on March 25, ICE agents arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University, while she was walking […]
Rutgers Center for Immigrant Justice Director, Rose Cuison-Villazor, was interviewed for the Bloomberg Law article, ‘San Francisco Sanctuary Case a Time Warp for Federal Precedent.’ Read the full article here: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/san-francisco-sanctuary-case-a-time-warp-for-federal-precedent
Join a cross-campus event featuring four panelists from Newark and Camden as they discuss key issues in immigration law and offer ways to bridge the gap in immigration discourse in light of the 2024 presidential election. Register here to attend in person. Wednesday, October 16 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Newark: Room 395 Camden: Room E-108 Link to Zoom to attend remotely.
Application: Students should submit their resume, list of references, and a brief writing sample as one pdf document to Jason Hernandez at Jason.c.hernandez@rutgers.edu by May 5, 2023. Finalists will be interviewed the week of May 15, 2023, and we anticipate making final selection by May 22, 2023.
Alexis Torres Machado (a.k.a. ATM) the author of the song “For My Immigrants,” is an undocumented immigrant from Uruguay. He is currently a DACA recipient and is a theater major and senior at Rutgers University-Newark. He found out he was undocumented at a very young age, like most children. He worked in collaboration with Newest Americans, who knew the song “ha[d] the potential to become an anthem for undocumented youth across the country,” as stated on their website. The music video rallied friends and family of ATM to be in the video with him. They include Marisol Conde-Hernandez, a Rutgers […]
Rutgers University Center for Immigration Law, Justice and Policy held their last community event of the semester with Ravi Ragbir. This event was split up into two parts. In both parts, Ravi opens the audience to a conversation on ICE’s mistreatment of immigrant rights and the appropriate reaction towards that. The first part was a presentation, discussing the current affairs regarding immigrant rights and answering questions from the audience. The second part of the event consisted of Sanctuary Coalition training, in which Ravi discusses actions and strategies to take in creating or strengthen a Sanctuary community. The event began with […]