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Wayne Law to host discussion on immigrant detention, mass incarceration


The Wayne Law chapter of the National Lawyers Guild will host a panel discussion Tuesday, April 3 exploring the intersection between immigrant detention and mass incarceration.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in the law school’s Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium, 471 W. Palmer St. Parking will be available for $7.75 (credit or debit card only) in Parking Structure No. 1 across West Palmer Street from the law school. Refreshments will be provided.

Assistant Professor (Clinical) Sabrina Balgamwalla, director of Wayne Law’s Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic, will moderate the event. Prior to entering academia, Balgamwalla was a nonprofit immigration and domestic violence attorney in Washington, D.C.

Panelists:

• Maria Ibarra-Frayre,  Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights

• Ruby Robinson, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center

• Nadine Yousif, CODE Legal Aid

• Rachel Lerman, second-year Wayne Law student, student volunteer at CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project

For more information contact Phillip Keller, phillip.keller@wayne.edu.

 

Authorities use social media bait to arrest court threat suspect
 

GLADWIN, Mich. (AP) — Authorities used bait posted on social media to help capture a man suspected of making a threat involving a potential shooting at a mid-Michigan courthouse.

The Gladwin County sheriff’s department says the man made what officials considered credible threats via phone Wednesday after a personal protection order was issued against him. The Gladwin County Courthouse was locked down for several hours afterward.

The Bay City Times reports authorities searched for the 19-year-old and urged him on social media to visit the sheriff’s office to make a complaint about his PPO. Sheriff Michael Shea says the man went to the sheriff’s office and deputies arrested him before he went inside.

Shea says the man didn’t have a gun on him at the time. He’s expected to face charges in the threat.

 

Correction
 

In Judge Darlene A. O’Brien’s column “Through the Eyes of a?Child” that appeared in the March 29, 2018, edition of the Detroit Legal News, the number of children who will turn 18 and age out of the foster care system this year is 23,000, not 73,000.

The DLN?regrets the error.

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