Beginning in 2016, the Trump administration unlawfully denied the applications for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) of some vulnerable abused, abandoned, and neglected youth in New York who were between the 18-21 years old. The Legal Aid Society, in partnership with Latham & Watkins, filed a federal class action law suit in a New York federal court which challenged this unlawful government action by the Trump administration. R.F.M. v. Nielsen, No. 18-CV-5068, 2019 WL 1219425 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 15, 2019). This webinar will cover the R.F.M. v. Nielsen federal litigation, as well as next steps for class members.

This presentation will be led by Elizabeth Rieser-Murphy, Staff Attorney in the Federal Practice at The Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit in New York City. As a Staff Attorney, she represents unaccompanied immigrant children in federal courts, New York family courts, and administrative proceedings.