(via ABC News)

Professor Jayashri Srikantiah weighs in on NYC’s new Immigrant Public Defender System and toll deportation have on families in this ABC News article. 

When Curtis Edmund first heard that a government official had come by his Bronx home looking for him, he couldn’t figure out why. But he agreed to a meeting early this year, and when he arrived, he was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

Edmund, a longtime U.S. legal resident and native of Trinidad and Tobago, now faced deportation because of two misdemeanor theft convictions from the mid-2000s that had put him on immigration officials’ radar.

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“You can see the real-life impact of somebody’s deportation on their children, on their spouse, on their parents, on their relatives, on their community,” said Jayashri Srikantiah, professor at Stanford Law School and director of the immigrants’ rights clinic.