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Immigration and the Military:
Fighting for Justice
Thursday, September 24
3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST
Featuring:
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M
argaret
Stock
,
Retired
Army
Lieutenant
Colonel
and
Founder
of
the
Military
Assistance
Program
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Hector
Barajas-Varela
,
U.S.
Army
Veteran,
Founder
of
Deported
Veterans
Support
Home
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Martin
Leste
r,
Chair
of
the
AILA
National
Military
Committee
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John,
Please join the American Immigration Council and our partner, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as we discuss the impact of immigration policies on military service members and their families, common immigration legal needs of military families, and how their Military Assistance Program (MAP) [[link removed]] volunteer attorneys fill this gap.
Every year, hundreds of military service members desperately seek legal assistance to navigate our country’s complex immigration system. Unfortunately, military attorneys, whom service members often depend on for legal assistance, lack the expertise to offer the proper immigration guidance, leaving service members to navigate our ever-changing immigration system alone. In 2008, to respond to service members’ growing need for expert legal immigration assistance, the Military Assistance Program was created to provide high-quality, free immigration assistance to US military members and their loved ones.
Join us September 24 to find out more about the challenges facing military service members and how the Military Assistance Program is addressing them.
Margaret D. Stock , Lieutenant Colonel (retired), is an attorney with the Anchorage office of Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC. Ms. Stock developed and implemented the Department of Defense’s recruiting program, Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI). In 2008, she earned the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Pro Bono Award for founding the AILA Military Assistance Program (AILA MAP). She was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2013.
Hector Barajas-Varela is the Director and the Founder of the Deported Veterans Support House. He served in the U.S Army 82nd Airborne Division. He was deported in 2004 and was repatriated as a U.S Citizen in 2018.
Martin Lester is the owner of Lester Law in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he concentrates his practice on immigration law. He currently serves as the Chair of the AILA National Military Committee, which oversees the Military Assistance Program, and has spoken previously at AILA’s 2018 and 2019 National Conferences and at the MidSouth and Central Florida Chapter Conferences. Martin also serves as Board Chair of Bridge Refugee Services and is a past President of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce International Business Council. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law .
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Sincerely,
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Beth Werlin
Executive Director
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