Immigration lawyers

Judy Rabinovitz has shaped constitutional limits on immigration detention through Zadvydas, family-separation litigation, asylum advocacy, and decades at the ACLU.

Omar C. Jadwat directs the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and litigates asylum, entry restrictions, immigration enforcement, and constitutional claims.

Mark D. Rosenbaum litigates education equity, immigrants’ rights, voting rights, veterans’ rights, and constitutional public-interest cases.

Lee Gelernt litigates immigrants’ rights, asylum, family-integrity, detention and constitutional cases as Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Trina Realmuto leads the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and litigates immigration, detention, damages and government-transparency cases in federal court.

Cecillia D. Wang is the ACLU’s National Legal Director, overseeing its national legal department, Supreme Court work, and collaboration with affiliates across the country.

Karen Tumlin leads Justice Action Center and litigates immigration and constitutional cases involving family reunification, entry restrictions, and class relief.

Ahilan T. Arulanantham has shaped due process in immigration detention through Nadarajah, Franco-Gonzalez, Jennings, TPS litigation, and teaching at UCLA Law.

Arash Jahanian directs advocacy at Colorado Legal Services and litigates civil-rights matters involving detention, prison health, police use of force, housing privacy, free speech, and religious land use.

Anand Swaminathan tries civil-rights and whistleblower cases involving wrongful convictions, police shootings, custodial care, free speech, immigration enforcement, and the False Claims Act.

Thomas A. Saenz leads MALDEF’s national civil-rights work across voting, education, employment, immigrant rights, and enforceable remedies.

Jonathan H. Feinberg litigates civil-rights cases involving custodial medical care, wrongful conviction, fabricated evidence, immigration detention, the right to record police, and constitutional appeals.