Myths and Urban Legends about Immigration and Immigrants: Pretty Much Everything You Thought You Knew About Immigration is Totally Wrong

Guest Speaker: Philip Berns
Thursday, April 13
7:30 PM
Room 107
University of Connecticut at Stamford
Washington and Broad Street

Philip Berns, currently represents the 16th district on the City of Stamford Board of Representatives. In the early 1980s he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and in Haiti. After Law School, he worked with Bronx Legal Services to protect children from lead poisoning due to lead paint in old housing. Since opening his own law office in Stamford in 1996, he specializes in Immigration Law and also handles a large personal injury caseload. He has concentrated in some areas of immigration that many private attorneys avoid: family immigration, deportation, asylum, temporary protective status, NACARA, HRIFA, TPS, etc. He frequently gives presentations to immigrant groups in Spanish and Haitian Creole on ways to protect their legal rights in a complex immigration law system.

For more information contact: Mary.Cygan@uconn.edu
Co-sponsored by Amnesty International, USA, Group 13