Crimmigration

Catalog description

Credit 1. 1 Lecture Hour. Intersection of criminal and immigration law; issues non-citizen criminal defendants face; what obligations defense counsel has to non-citizen clients; how to analyze the immigration consequences of state criminal offenses; strategies to protect non-citizen defendants from removal; concludes with a final legal memo on the immigration consequences of a particular Texas criminal offense. Prerequisites: One year of law school in the full-time or part-time program.