This presentation described what every state court judge needs to know to promote access to justice and fairness when immigration law issues arise in state court cases involving litigants, victims of crime or abuse, and children who are immigrants or live in immigrant families. Faculty provided an overview of the major forms of immigration relief that Congress created to protect immigrant victims of domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, human trafficking, sexual assault, and stalking and identify how access to public benefits, services, and supports grow as eligible immigrant victims and their children pursue victim-based forms of immigration relief.
Federal Immigration Statutes, Immigration Relief – Victim Based, National Judicial Network & Judicial Training, State Family Laws, State Immigration Legislation, Training Web Pages, Trainings