Introduction to Crimmigration

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET

Join us next week for our January webinar, featuring a prosecutor-oriented training diving into the intersection of criminal law and immigration, or “crimmigration,” and the role of local prosecutors in pursuing justice for immigrant communities. Guided by experts in the field and anchored in takeaways from the IIP’s 2024 convening on Pursuing Justice for Immigrants, our webinar will explore the intersection of criminal and immigration law. Joining our discussion are:

  • Linus Chan, James H. Binger Clinical Professor Of Law, Clinical Professor Of Law, University Of Minnesota Law School 

  • Ingrid Eagly, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director Criminal Justice Program, UCLA Law

  • Talia Peleg, Co-Director, Immigration & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic and Associate Professor Of Law, CUNY Law

  • Abel Rodríguez, Assistant Professor Of Law, St. John’s University School Of Law

  • Rachel Marshall (moderator), Executive Director, IIP

Our webinar will explore the ways in which the criminal legal system can improve in its treatment of immigrants—whether as crime victims or as the accused. How does a criminal arrest, conviction, or even detention impact a non-citizen’s immigration status? How does criminal law differ from immigration law in categorizing the severity of specific crimes? How can even non-convictions impact immigrants? How are immigrants who face criminal charges, convictions, or contact with the legal system “doubly punished” as a result? How can immigration consequences be minimized by the criminal legal system—and how can prosecutors seek to hold someone who commits a crime accountable without impacting their immigration status? 


Our webinar will also describe the relevant terminology for prosecutors to understand regarding immigration and walk prosecutors through immigration court proceedings, and equip them with the tools they need to administer justice. This webinar is targeted towards a national audience, but will afford some special attention to Minnesota law and MCLE credits in Minnesota will be awarded to attendees.

Linus Chan

James H. Binger Clinical Professor Of Law, Clinical Professor Of Law, University Of Minnesota Law School

Linus Chan is an associate professor of clinical law and the director of the Detainee Rights Clinic. He is an immigration attorney that focuses on removal defense for those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He also teaches in the area of intersection of criminal and immigration law.

Ingrid Eagly

Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director Criminal Justice Program, UCLA Law

Ingrid Eagly is a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Program at UCLA Law. Her teaching and research interests include immigration law, criminal law, evidence, and public interest lawyering. Professor Eagly is an expert in the intersection between immigration enforcement and the criminal legal system. Her recent work explores a range of topics, including the prosecution of immigration crimes, the role of public defenders, and U.S. immigration courts. Eagly currently serves as a co-editor of the ImmigrationProf blog.

Talia Peleg

Co-Director, Immigration & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic and Associate Professor Of Law, CUNY Law

Talia Peleg is an Associate Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at CUNY School of Law. She and her students represent non-citizens in all aspects of the immigration system. Her scholarship and practice focus on combating the entanglement of the immigration and criminal legal system. Prior to teaching at CUNY, she was a Supervising Attorney in the Immigration Practice at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS).

Abel Rodríguez

Assistant Professor Of Law, St. John’s University School Of Law

Abel Rodríguez is Assistant Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where he teaches Criminal Law, Immigration Law, and Crimmigration. His research focuses on race, migration, and the intersection of criminal and immigration law. Prior to entering academia, Professor Rodríguez was the immigration specialist at the Defender Association and a staff attorney at Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia, where he specialized in deportation defense for the formerly convicted.

Rachel Marshall

Executive Director, Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College

Rachel Marshall is the Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution.

Rachel previously served as the Director of Communications and Policy Advisor at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, following nearly a decade working as a public defender in Alameda County, California.  Rachel has extensive expertise in the criminal legal system and efforts to reform it, as well as experience in media, policy, and advocacy.

Rachel graduated from Stanford Law School and Brown University.  After law school, she clerked for federal District Court Judge David O. Carter in the Central District of California.  Prior to law school, she taught high school history for three years in the Bronx