{"id":330,"date":"2019-07-29T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/?p=330"},"modified":"2019-07-29T18:20:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:20:29","slug":"crimmigration-clinic-submits-amicus-brief-on-behalf-of-immigration-law-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/2019\/07\/29\/crimmigration-clinic-submits-amicus-brief-on-behalf-of-immigration-law-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimmigration Clinic submits amicus brief on behalf of immigration law scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIRC\u2019s Crimmigration Clinic, directed by Philip Torrey,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/harvardimmigrationclinic.org\/files\/2018\/11\/Martinez-Cedillo-Amicus-Brief-14-71742-Law-Professors-2.pdf\">recently co-authored an\u00a0<em>amicus curiae<\/em>\u00a0brief<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc.edu\/bc-web\/schools\/law\/academics-faculty\/faculty-directory\/kari-hong.html\">Professor Kari E. Hong<\/a>\u00a0of Boston College Law School on behalf of immigration law scholars. The brief was filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a petition asking the full court to reconsider its prior decision in a case that significantly expanded a specific crime-based deportation ground.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>amicus<\/em>\u00a0brief argues for a narrow interpretation of the \u201ccrime of child abuse\u201d removal ground that is more in line with the ground\u2019s purpose to target child predators for removal. In doing so, the brief illustrates the over-inclusive nature of the removal ground\u2019s current interpretation by immigration authorities, which may sweep in relatively minor conduct, including \u201cfree-range\u201d parenting and child endangerment statutes that Congress did not intend to result in the deportation. To be clear, child abuse has no place in our society, but the current broad interpretation of the statute may render the parent who allows an older child to walk a half-mile home from a park a child abuser and, therefore, subject to deportation and permanent separation from her family. The brief argues that Congress did not intend to target that type of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The full brief is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/harvardimmigrationclinic.org\/files\/2018\/11\/Martinez-Cedillo-Amicus-Brief-14-71742-Law-Professors-2.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIRC\u2019s Crimmigration Clinic, directed by Philip Torrey,\u00a0recently co-authored an\u00a0amicus curiae\u00a0brief\u00a0with\u00a0Professor Kari E. Hong\u00a0of Boston College Law School on behalf of immigration law scholars. The brief was filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a petition asking the full court to reconsider its prior decision in a case that significantly expanded a [&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-330","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\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/crimmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}