Health and Immigration Detention Amid Covid-19 Webinar TODAY

Cornell University and Physicians for Human Rights will offer a free webinar featuring top notch attorneys litigating immigration detention release cases and public health experts on Thursday, June 4 from 12-2 pm pacific / 3-5 pm eastern. The webinar seeks to distribute timely information about health and immigration detention in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic to families and friends of people in detention (the presentations will be in English). The event will involve two panel discussions and a Q&A featuring medical and public health experts as well as counsel for plaintiffs in a number of significant litigation matters implicating conditions of confinement within and release from immigration detention in the midst of the pandemic across the country. Register here: https://rb.gy/eirete. Full speaker list below:

Panel:  Eunice Cho Senior Staff Attorney American Civil Liberties Union,  National Prison Project
 
Gregory P. Copeland and Sarah T. Gillman Counsel in O.M.G. v. Wolf Rapid Defense Network
 
Neha Desai Counsel in Flores v. Barr  National Center for Youth Law
 
Lisa Graybill and Maia Fleischman Counsel in Fraihat v. ICE Southern Poverty Law Center
 
William Lopez, PhD, MPH Clinical Assistant Professor University of Michigan School of Public Health
 
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS Senior Medical Advisor Physicians for Human Rights
 
Alan Shapiro, MD Clinical Assistant Professor  Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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