Emily Creighton

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Name: Emily Creighton
Date registered: November 24, 2009
URL: http://www.legalactioncenter.org

Biography

Emily Creighton is a staff attorney at the Legal Action Center. She has represented amicus curiae before Board of Immigration Appeals and in various federal courts around the country. She also contributes to the work of the Legal Action Center's Litigation Clearinghouse. Ms. Creighton joined the Immigration Council in 2006. She graduated cum laude from American University Washington College of Law in 2006. Prior to law school, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine.

Latest posts

  1. It’s Time to Improve Noncitizens’ Access to Counsel — January 23, 2012
  2. Class Action Challenging Arizona Law Reveals Depth of Constitutional Rights at Stake — May 18, 2010
  3. DHS Reverses Decision on Deportation Time Frame — April 29, 2010
  4. New Report Provides Solutions to Broken Asylum Employment Authorization Clock — February 12, 2010
  5. DHS Interprets Law to Detain Refugees Across the Country — November 24, 2009

Most commented posts

  1. DHS Reverses Decision on Deportation Time Frame — 5 comments
  2. DHS Interprets Law to Detain Refugees Across the Country — 4 comments
  3. New Report Provides Solutions to Broken Asylum Employment Authorization Clock — 3 comments
  4. Class Action Challenging Arizona Law Reveals Depth of Constitutional Rights at Stake — 3 comments

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Jan
23

It’s Time to Improve Noncitizens’ Access to Counsel

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January 23, 2012

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In the United States, most immigration decisions impacting noncitizens are made by immigration officials in informal proceedings far from a courtroom. While the right to an attorney (at the noncitizens’ own expense) in immigration court proceedings is widely recognized, the right to counsel in administrative settings outside of a courtroom is often overlooked or explicitly …

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May
18

Class Action Challenging Arizona Law Reveals Depth of Constitutional Rights at Stake

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May 18, 2010

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Yesterday, a diverse group of individuals and organizations filed a class action challenging Arizona’s harsh immigration enforcement law SB 1070, scheduled to go into effect on July 28, 2010. This law, among other things requires state and local law enforcement to check the immigration status of individuals it encounters, and makes it a state crime …

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Apr
29

DHS Reverses Decision on Deportation Time Frame

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April 29, 2010

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In a sudden about-face last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reversed its position on an interpretation of law which drastically increased immigrants’ vulnerability to deportation. In a brief filed on April 21, DHS urged the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to modify an existing precedent decision in a pending BIA case, Matter of …

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Feb
12

New Report Provides Solutions to Broken Asylum Employment Authorization Clock

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February 12, 2010

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Asylum applicants and their attorneys have long struggled to better understand how the employment authorization asylum clock (“EAD asylum clock”) functions. The clock, which measures the number of days after an applicant files an asylum application before the applicant is eligible for work authorization, affects potentially more than 50,000 asylum applicants each year. While the …

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Nov
24

DHS Interprets Law to Detain Refugees Across the Country

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November 24, 2009

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Last month, President Obama authorized the admission of 80,000 refugees into the U.S. in fiscal year 2010, something every President has done annually since passage of the Refugee Act of 1980. The United States has long recognized the importance of providing a safe haven for refugees. Beginning with laws granting refugee status to displaced persons …

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