The document explains how criminal convictions can lead to deportation, bar legal immigration or naturalization, and affect family sponsorship. It aims to help you identify ways in which immigration consequences arise from criminal activity and convictions, identify the impact of juvenile adjudications on children’s immigration relief options and status, understand how criminal activity and convictions may lead to the breakup of immigrant families, explore options for judges to respond to requests to reopen and dismiss prior convictions under state law, and engage with ethical issues that arise at the intersection of immigration and criminal law.
Immigration – General, Immigration Enforcement and Detention, National Judicial Network & Judicial Training