This placement offers students interested in immigration law the opportunity to extern with the Immigration Court Memphis, TN, applying and enforcing U.S. immigration law. Students can expect to work with the Immigration judges and their staff as they adjudicate matters brought before the Court by the Department of Homeland Security. Possible matters include whether aliens are deportable, excludable, inadmissible or removable from the United States, as well as various other immigration matters including waivers, adjustment of status, cancellation of removal, asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the U.N. Convention Against Torture. Students typically engage in in-depth research and analysis and prepare memoranda and decision opinions on these and other issues. Having taken, or concurrently taking, Immigration Law, is recommended.
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Memphis Immigration Court
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