To combat aggressive ICE enforcement, Cardozo School of Law launches new immigration training for lawyers

With ICE’s using more aggressive enforcement, the Cardozo School of Law has announced the launch of a new program designed to train lawyers to adapt to the new tactics.

The law school recently created the Center for Immigration Innovation to provide training to help working immigration attorneys respond to the immigration enforcement that fall outside the immigration proceedings they are used to.

“Increasingly we're seeing ICE arresting people when they show up at [immigration] courts, asking to terminate those proceedings and attempting to use extra-judicial mechanisms to force people out of the country in contravention of law,” said Peter Markowitz, co-director of the new center and Cardozo’s Immigration Justice Clinic.

The center will house the National Immigration Habeas Institute,