Experts on Measuring Immigrants’ Appearance Rate in Immigration Court. TODAY

What: For four years the Trump administration repeatedly relied on the flawed narrative that immigrants with pending court dates rarely show up for their hearings to justify cruel immigration policies including the zero-tolerance policy that resulted in horrific separations of thousands of children from their parents, the “Remain in Mexico” program, increasing immigration detention to record numbers, and asylum bans. However, the government’s own data tells a far different story and provides the Biden administration the opportunity to take a fresh look at immigration policy and implement data-driven policies.

Join experts who will discuss findings from a national study of government data on the rate at which immigrants appear for their hearings in immigration court and a discussion of how this information should inform policy decisions by the Biden administration and new Congress.

Who:  

• Ingrid Eagly, professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law
• Steven Shafer, managing attorney for the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project in Los Angeles
• Paul Wickham Schmidt, former immigration judge and board member for the Board of Immigration Appeals 
• Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel at the American Immigration Council
• Jorge Loweree, policy director at the American Immigration Council (Moderator)

When: Jan. 28, 2021 at 1 p.m. EST / 10 a.m. PST 

RSVP: For dial-in information RSVP to Maria Frausto at mfrausto@immcouncil.org. 

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