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7th Annual Law & Policy Conference

 

7th Annual Law & Policy Conference

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9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Panel 1: Current Topics in Immigration Law and Policy

Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and U.S. Immigration Policy Program Director, Migration Policy Institute (Moderator)

Jeanne A. Butterfield, Legislative/Policy Director, Reform Immigration for America

David A. Martin, Principal Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Margie McHugh, Co-Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration, Migration Policy Institute

10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Panel 2: Reforming the U.S. Immigration Court System

Andrew Schoenholtz, Deputy Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

Tara Magner, Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Juan Osuna, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice

Lawrence A. Schneider, Senior Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

1:15 - 1:45 p.m.

Keynote: Humanitarian Responses to Crises (Haiti), Overview of PRM Priorities, and the Foreign Policy Implications of the U.S. Immigration Debate

Eric P. Schwartz, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State

Introduction: Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute

Transcript of Eric Schwartz's speech

1:45 - 3:15 p.m.

Panel 3: Humanitarian Relief, Access to Protection, and U.S. Asylum Policies

Donald Kerwin, Vice President for Programs, Migration Policy Institute (Moderator)

Jocelyn McCalla, President, JMC Strategies, LLC and former Executive Director, National Coalition for Haitian Rights

Kathleen Newland, Director, Migrants, Migration and Development Program, Migration Policy Institute

Eleanor Acer, Director, Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights First

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Panel 4: Enforcement of Immigration Law

Maria Odom, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (Moderator)

Muzaffar Chishti, Director, Migration Policy Institute Office, New York University School of Law

Phyllis Coven, Acting Director, Office of Detention Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Wendy Young, Executive Director, Kids in Need of Defense