Job o’ the Day: Immigrants’ Rights Detention Fellowship with the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project
With offices in New York and San Francisco, the Immigrants Rights Project (IRP) of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation uses targeted impact litigation, advocacy and public outreach to protect the rights and liberties of immigrants. The Project litigates in federal district and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court, to challenge laws that deny immigrants access to the judicial system, impose indefinite and mandatory detention, and constitute discrimination on the basis of “alienage” by governmental and private entities.
The IRP is currently hiring a Detention Fellow to start immediately. From the PSJD job posting:
The IRP Detention Fellow will participate in litigation and advocacy to challenge the expansion of unconstitutional detention practices, and to help establish a right to appointed counsel for immigration detainees. The Fellow will work with IRP attorneys on existing complex litigation challenges to detention and counsel practices and participate in the development and filing of new litigation. In addition, the Fellow will be instrumental in monitoring other cases being litigated in the federal courts. The Fellow will also participate in our administrative advocacy for systemic nationwide reforms to the immigration detention system.
For more information, view the full job listing at PSJD.org (log-in required).