Immigration and Higher Education: Understanding Our Rights

This presentation will focus on general campus protocols, government priorities, workplace raids, how to address workplace agents, and most important, a better understanding our undocumented students, families, and communities. Other topics will include mental health/wellness, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout. Resources will also be discussed. 

Attorney and Partner, Lisa Ramirez is a California State Bar Immigration and Nationality Law Specialist and notably one of the first women and the first Spanish speaking specialist in Orange County.  Her practice focuses on Department of Homeland Security I-9 investigations and audits, establishing compliance programs for companies, and obtaining various visas for professional athletes, artists, scientists, and religious workers. Additionally, she supports family-based immigration through petitions and waivers, naturalization, and removal (deportation) defense in Federal Immigration Court. 

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