LSU Law Professor Lauren Aronson (seated, second from left) with students from the LSU Immigration Law Clinic.
The LSU ImmigrationLaw Clinic successfully advocated for 13 clients during the Spring 2018 semester.
Students fought for and were granted asylum for eleven individuals – six from Turkey, three from Honduras and two from Bangladesh. The students collectively responsible are Kameron Whitmeyer, Heather McFayden, Meredith Hamblen, Jacqueline Duhon, Lana Georgiou, Carmen Guidry, MJ Hernandez, Jourdan Couret, Lauren Ferand, Justin Spears, Payton Lott, Lara Herstrom, Jacob Joffrion, Anne Lanier, and Alex Morgan.
Also during the Spring semester, Chris Chesne successfully acquired a green card and Lawful Permanent Resident Status for an individual from El Salvador who would have been facing deportation after the Trump Administration’s cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for citizens of El Salvador (and Honduras and Haiti).
Finally, Anne Lanier successfully persuaded an immigration judge to reopen and terminate proceedings for a young woman who entered the United States as an unaccompanied immigrant child and was ordered to be deported because she failed to attend her court hearing after the government released her from detention.
