This two-part webinar series is open to all immigration attorneys nationally, new and experienced, who are interested in learning more about the Southeast Asian deportation crisis, legal strategies that are instrumental in fighting deportations, and partnering with us to provide legal support and representation to Southeast Asian community members facing removal.

Forty years ago, Southeast Asians from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam arrived in the US as part of the largest refugee resettlement program in US history. In the US, the Southeast Asian community has continued to be one of the most vulnerable immigrant communities, with ICE targeting Southeast Asians for mass deportation in the past two decades. Across the country, there are 16,000 Southeast Asians who have removal orders, with most of these removal orders based on past criminal convictions. These removal orders force many Southeast Asians to return to countries they fled as refugee babies or children. As deportations escalate within the Southeast Asian community, deportations continue to be a crisis that tears Southeast Asian families and communities apart.

Defending Southeast Asians from ICEs Deportation Machine is presented by the Northeast Region Pardon Project in partnership with Immigrant Defense Project, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the National Lawyers Guild - New York City Chapter.