DC
This is the name of the category on Clicktime that you need to select when working on a DC case.
What is DC/IJLS?
Staff should select this category on salesforce when opening a case under the Baltimore grant.
What is SAFE Cities-Baltimore?
This program allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on short-term, primarily agricultural contracts, during the period from 1942 to 1964 .
What is the Bracero Program (officially called the Mexican Farm Labor Program)?
True or false: The DC grant covers placement with pro bonos and then mentoring the pro bonos.
What is true?
True or false: the BC contract covers placement with pro bonos and then mentoring them?
This island served as a quarantine station, an immigration station processing mostly Chinese immigrants, and then a place to house POWs during World War II.
What is Angel Island?
The DC grant covers clients who are either detained or "at risk for detention." We at CAIR Coalition define at risk for detention to include this.
What is, for example, someone has an old removal order, criminal history, mental illness, or other vulnerabilities.
New cases should be opened in Salesforce for BC cases according to the same rules that we use for determining when to open new cases under this grant.
What is MLSC?
The BIA famously ordered this member of the Beatles to be deported because of his marijuana use.
Who is John Lennon?
For a person to qualify under the DC grant, we must confirm this.
What is the client either currently resides (detained or otherwise) in DC, previously resided in DC prior to their detention, or intends to reside in DC after their detention; or they have an immediate family member that currently resides in DC. (DC is very generous in their definition of residency.)
For a person to qualify under the Baltimore grant, we only need to confirm this.
What is that the client either currently resides in Baltimore City or previously resided in Baltimore City immediately prior to their detention (regardless of whether they were detained in ICE or criminal custody first).
This xenophobic law passed in 1882 and was not repealed until 1943.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These immigration case types are NOT covered by the DC grant.
What is a trick question! There are no case-type restrictions on immigration cases (including that DC can fund PFRs, habeas, mandamus and other federal court processes).
On Clicktime, when working on a direct rep case for a very new client whose initials do not yet appear in Clicktime, you should select this right-most column
What is "case work"?
Before becoming the mayor of New York City, this man-- who was fluent in Italian, Yiddish, and Croatian-- worked as a translator at Ellis Island.
Who is Fiorella LaGuardia?