The new Administration has recently issued several executive orders and other directives to increase the detention and removal of immigrants. These actions have created tremendous uncertainty among immigrant families in New York City, with children living in fear of losing their parents to detention and deportation. Immigrant families urgently need information and legal advice.

This program will discuss parental directives, which provide authority to a trusted relative or friend to provide care for a child if a parent is detained and deported from the United States, and other legal measures immigrant families may be able to take to protect their children. It will include an interdisciplinary panel of immigration and family law experts.

PANELISTS
Lee Wang
Staff Attorney, Immigrant Defense Project

Terry D. Lawson
Director, Family and Immigration Unit, Legal Services NYC - Bronx

Ellen Rosenberg
Law Project Director, Women's Prison Association; Family Law Advisor, Incarcerated Mother's Law Project, Volunteers of Legal Service