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Jean Reisz teaches and co-directs the USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic, and teaches the Immigration Detention and Appellate Clinic and the Legal Profession courses. Under her supervision, second- and third-year law students represent individuals in removal proceedings seeking humanitarian forms of relief such as asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit. Clinic students also represent unlawfully detained immigrants in habeas corpus petitions before the U.S. District Court and noncitizens seeking other immigration relief including Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) immigrant visa petitions, crime victim visas (U visa status petitions), DACA, permanent residence, and citizenship. In addition, Reisz teaches the undergraduate course, LAW 212 - Immigration for a New America.
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Biden Defends Immigration Policy During State of the Union, Blaming Republicans in Congress for Refusing To Act

by Jean Lantz Reisz, University of Southern California March 8, 2024

President Biden Plans To Take Action on Immigration and Move Beyond Political Disagreements on the Matter President Joe Biden delivered the annual State of the ... Read more.

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Author: Jean Lantz Reisz, University of Southern California

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Biden Defends Immigration Policy During State of the Union, Blaming Republicans in Congress for Refusing To Act