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Asylum
Date and Time:
07/02/2025 11:00am to 12:30pm PDT
Recorded Date:
07/02/2025
Place:
Online
Registration Deadline:
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 11:00am
MCLE:
1.5 CA (Qualifies for Legal Specialization Credit) & 1.5 TX

Level: All

The Immigration and Nationality Act states that any noncitizen in the United States may apply for asylum. However, the statute contains several bars to receiving asylum, and regulations and policies introduced by recent presidential administrations have further curtailed access to asylum. This is the third part of a three-part series on asylum bars. In this webinar, we will focus on recent regulations and policies that essentially serve as bars to asylum even though they are not provided by statute. We will discuss how to identify and represent clients who may be subject to the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule (CLP), Securing the Border rule (STB), and other policies introduced by the current Administration, which effectively bar certain noncitizens from asylum. We will also share practice tips regarding screening and addressing these bars, as well as the statutory bars covered in the prior two parts of this webinar series.

Presenters

Cori Hash - Senior Staff Attorney, ILRC

 

Cori Hash joined the ILRC as a Senior Staff Attorney in 2024 and is based in Austin, Texas. She came to the ILRC after nearly two decades working in the field of immigrant rights and immigration law.  Cori was most recently in private practice at Lincoln-Goldfinch Law firm, a boutique law firm in Austin, TX specializing in immigration law. Prior to Lincoln-Goldfinch Law, Cori was the Managing Attorney of the Washington, D.C. office of Human Rights First where she oversaw the pro bono legal representation of indigent asylum seekers by staff and volunteer lawyers in the Washington, D.C. metro area.Cori began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, creating a project to address the unmet legal needs of the growing immigrant and refugee communities in Central and Eastern Kentucky. She also taught immigration law courses at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Prior to law school, Cori served as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps in Zimbabwe.Cori has a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. She is a member of the bars in Texas, Kentucky and Virginia, and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She is fluent in Spanish.

Andrew Craycroft - Staff Attorney, ILRC 

Andrew joined the ILRC in May 2019 as a Staff Attorney focusing on immigrant youth issues. Prior to joining the ILRC, he worked at Staten Island Legal Services representing clients in a variety of affirmative and defensive immigration matters. Previously, Andrew worked at the Unaccompanied Minors Program of Catholic Charities Community Services in New York, representing detained and released unaccompanied minors in removal defense.

Andrew received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he participated in the Center for Applied Legal Studies Clinic. Andrew earned his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Andrew is admitted to the bar in New Jersey and New York. He is fluent in French and Spanish with some knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Aruna Sury - Senior Staff Attorney, ILRC

 

Aruna Sury is a Senior Staff Attorney with the ILRC’s San Francisco office. Her work focuses on removal defense, administrative and federal appeals, and immigration consequences of crimes. Through the ILRC’s Attorney of the Day program, Aruna provides legal guidance to criminal defense and immigration counsel. She regularly contributes to ILRC publications by authoring and updating content that enables practitioners to provide high quality representation to their clients. Aruna also presents ILRC trainings and CLE courses on a variety of topics.

Since obtaining her law degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, Aruna has dedicated her career to the areas of immigration and civil rights in various settings in San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin. She has worked in law firm and solo practice environments as well as in non-profit and public organizations, including Washington Defender Association, University of Washington, Kids in Need of Defense, and Political Asylum Project of Austin (now American Gateways). Aruna’s personal interest is in immigrants’ due process rights, particularly the right to effective counsel and expansive access to judicial review. She has litigated numerous cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as other circuit courts.