immigration Archives

BASF in the news: Immigration 7/2019

The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) team worked with media outlets across the continent this month, sharing information about immigration, due process, and ICE raids. Here are July’s highlights: BASF immigration attorney Hamid Yazdan Panah, was featured in the San…

Volunteer Interpreters Needed in Immigration Cases

Are you fluent in Spanish or other languages and interested in gaining valuable interpretation experience in an immigration law setting? The Justice & Diversity Center invites you to get involved with the longstanding Attorney of the Day Program as a…

The High Price of California's Failure to Fund Dependency Counsel

“State intervention in the lives of families, even when absolutely necessary, is a traumatic experience for children and parents alike.” Indeed, “here are hardly more consequential acts the government can take than deciding whether to remove a child from the…

Advocate for Immigrants Retires from Homeless Advocacy Project

By Teresa Friend, Homeless Advocacy Project Ramona Holguin, long-time supervising attorney at the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) of the Justice & Diversity Center (JDC), retired at the end of February. She started at HAP in 1993, and created a key…

A Week at the Justice & Diversity Center [INFOGRAPHIC]

Do you ever wonder what’s going on at the Justice & Diversity Center? Check out the infographic below to get a behind-the-scenes snapshot of a sample week in the life of JDC staff and volunteers.