Cruz to speak on panel about family detention
<p><a href="http://www.law.asu.edu/Apps/Faculty/Faculty.aspx?individual_id=45422">E… Cruz</a>, associate clinical professor and director of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law's Immigration Law & Policy Clinic, will speak on a panel organized by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona next month.</p><separator></separator><p>The panel, which is scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17, will be held in the ASU Language and Literature building, Room LL2. It will be held in conjunction with the screening of the documentary, "The Least of These: Family Detention in America." </p><separator></separator><p>Cruz will be joined on the panel by Victoria Lopez, ACLU-AZ Immigration Rights Advocate, and Lindsay Marshall, an attorney with The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. The panel will be moderated by Paul Espinosa, a professor for ASU Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies.</p><separator></separator><p>For more information on the film, visit <a href="http://theleastofthese-film.com/">http://theleastofthese-film.com</a>.<… attend, RSVP to Mary Lunetta at <a href="mailto:mlunetta@acluaz.org">mlunetta@acluaz.org</a> or (602) 650-1854, ext. 107.</p><separator></separator><p>Cruz teaches immigration law and comprehensive law practice and writes articles about immigration law, clinical education and therapeutic jurisprudence. She has co-authored several immigration law manuals used by immigration practitioners and pro-se detainees at Immigration Detention Centers throughout the country. Currently, she is working on ultinational/multidisciplinary approaches to solving the plight of unaccompanied immigrant minors.</p><separator></separator><p>The clinic she directs represents unaccompanied minors in immigration removal proceedings and received ASU's 2007 President's Medal for Social Embeddedness.</p><separator></separator><p><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 9pt">Judy Nichols, <a href="mailto:Judith.Nichols@asu.edu"><font color="#0000ff">Judith.Nichols@asu.edu</font></a><br />(480) 727-7895<br />Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law</span></p>