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Immigration Law & Border Enforcement: A One Week Summer Program for Law Students

By immigrationprof

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Hofstra Law is once again offering its Immigration Law and Border Enforcement Program. This one-week 3-credit class for law students runs from Sunday May 21 to Sunday May 28, 2017.

It will be held in San Diego, California, and is co-sponsored by UC San Diego’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

The course is open to law students around the country. Students will have the opportunity to:

  • Tour the border with Border Patrol
  • Meet with state department officials at the U.S. consulate in Tijuana
  • Tour Casa del Migrante in Tijuana and meet with advocates
  • Observe immigration court proceedings in the detained setting
  • Tour a detention facility
  • Meet with OFO officers at the POE
  • Observe federal court proceedings
  • Meet with a superior court judge
  • Meet with a border advocate
  • Participate in a cross-border festival at Friendship Park

Interested students should apply by April 7, 2017.

-KitJ