FW: Reminder: Telephonic Briefing Tomorrow with RWG & DWN
Daniel Huang
Daniel Huang
Policy Advocate, Immigrant
Rights Project
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
1145 Wilshire
Blvd., 2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017
Tel: (213) 977-7500 Ext.
237 Fax: (213) 977-7595
From: Tong Lee [mailto:TL...@RightsWorkingGroup.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:59 AM
To: rwg
Cc: Alison Parker
Subject: Reminder: Telephonic Briefing Tomorrow with RWG & DWN
Join the Rights Working Group and the Detention Watch Network for the following event tomorrow.
Telephonic Briefing about Human Rights Watch’s new report on the human rights implications of the 1996 deportation laws
Wednesday, July 18: 2 pm EST to 2:45 pm EST
Call: 1-888-891-0496
Code: 802477
Please join us for a conference call on July 18 from 2 - 2:45 EST with Alison Parker, Senior Researcher with the US Program of Human Rights Watch who will present key findings from her report, which will be publicly released the same day.
In the report, Human Rights Watch will be emphasizing the fact that although the US Congress failed to pass sweeping immigration reforms this year, it still has the option to fix unjust deportation laws enacted in 1996. The report documents how legal immigrants are being deported after criminal convictions without a hearing that balances their long-term family ties or US military service against the gravity of their crimes, mostly minor and non-violent. In the report, HRW for the first time provides estimates of the numbers of US citizens and legal permanent residents who have lost a loved one to deportation. The report also provides a first-ever comparative law analysis of the practices of other countries, especially key western democracies that the US considers to be its peers.
Alison will discuss these and other findings from the report and outline HRW's advocacy goals, which may be of interest to groups who are looking for ways to follow up on comprehensive immigration reform advocacy. She will also provide information on a case before the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, for which there will be public hearings on July 20. In the case, two immigrants deported because of criminal convictions, Wayne Smith and Hugo Armendáriz, make claims against the US government. Robert Pauw, of the law firm Gibbs, Houston, Pauw, brought these cases before the Commission in 2002 with the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and the Center for Global Justice. HRW has filed a friend of the court brief in the case.
Tong Lee
Human Rights Coordinator
1140 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20036
P: 202-296-2300 x 123
F: 202-296-2318
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