{"id":303,"date":"2019-07-29T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/?p=303"},"modified":"2019-07-29T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:48:29","slug":"a-new-class-at-the-intersection-of-criminal-and-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/2019\/07\/29\/a-new-class-at-the-intersection-of-criminal-and-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Class at the Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See below to read a great article with our own Director and lecturer on law, Phil Torrey (quoted below):<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>These cases are challenging because the law around who is eligible for immigration relief when there is criminal activity in the past is really difficult to navigate, and the avenues for relief are really limited even for people who have very strong claims for immigration relief,\u201d says Torrey, who worked on a number of crimmigration cases as a legal fellow at Greater Boston Legal Services before joining HLS. \u201cIt\u2019s an area that\u2019s continuing to grow and will continue to be an issue for a while, so educating our students\u2014as lawyers of tomorrow\u2014is really important.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole story\u00a0<a title=\"Crimmigration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/12_crimmigration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0on HLS\u2019 webpage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See below to read a great article with our own Director and lecturer on law, Phil Torrey (quoted below): \u201cThese cases are challenging because the law around who is eligible for immigration relief when there is criminal activity in the past is really difficult to navigate, and the avenues for relief are really limited even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}