Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

7^th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

June 25, 2010

8:15 a.m.                             Foyer                             Check-in and Registration Open

9:00 a.m.                             Hart Auditorium            Conference Begins  

Plenary Session I:  Current Topics in Immigration Law and Policy

Session Moderator:  Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow & US Immigration Policy Program Director, Migration Policy Institute

Session Speakers: 
Jeanne A. Butterfield, Legislative/Policy Director, Reform Immigration for America
David A. Martin, Principal Deputy General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security
Margie McHugh, Co-Director of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute

10:30 a.m.                            Foyer                              Break

10:45 a.m.                            Hart Auditorium             Conference Reconvenes

Plenary Session II:  Reforming the U.S. Immigration Court System 

Session Moderator:  Andrew Schoenholtz, Deputy Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Session Speakers:
Tara Magner, Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Juan Osuna, Associate Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Lawrence A. Schneider, Senior Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

12:15 p.m.                            Foyer                              Lunch

1:15 p.m.                              Hart Auditorium             Conference Reconvenes

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

The Honorable Eric P. Schwartz, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, United States Department of State
Introduced by Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President

1:45 p.m.                              Hart Auditorium

Plenary Session III: Humanitarian Relief, Access to Protection, and U.S. Asylum Policies

Session Moderator: Donald Kerwin, Vice President for Programs, Migration Policy Institute                 

Session Speakers:
Jocelyn McCalla, President, JMC Strategies, LLC
Kathleen Newland, Director, Migrants, Migration and Development, and Refugee Policy Programs, Migration Policy Institute
Eleanor Acer, Director, Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights First 

3:15 p.m.                                Foyer                               Break

3:30 p.m.                                Hart Auditorium              Conference Reconvenes

Plenary Session IV: Immigration Enforcement, Detention Reform, and One Vulnerable Population That Remains Unprotected

Session Moderator: Maria Odom, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

Session Speakers:
Muzaffar Chishti, Director, MPI Office at NYU School of Law, Migration Policy Institute
Phyllis Coven, Acting Director of the Office of Detention Policy and Planning, Department of Homeland Security
Wendy Young, Executive Director, Kids in Need of Defense

5:00 p.m.                                  Hart Auditorium                Conference Concludes

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