November Removal Defense Webinar: Practice Before the Board of Immigration Appeals During Trump 2.0

National Immigration Project November Removal Defense Webinar: 

Practice Before the Board of Immigration Appeals During Trump 2.0

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (ET) / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (PT)

90 minutes of instruction (1.50 CLE credits)

Zoom Webinar

Program Description

Much has changed in immigration removal defense practice since the start of the current administration whose goal is to prioritize immigration enforcement across every agency, including the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Firings of BIA members for political reasons has established a less ideologically diverse set of Appellate Immigration Judges who have issued a litany of decisions. These decisions have expanded mandatory detention, targeted the flight risk and danger to the community bond standard, narrowed eligibility for asylum and for people with convictions, and allowed Immigration Judges to pretermit asylum cases without a hearing. Against this landscape, practitioners who lose before the Immigration Judge, must still seek redress to the very BIA that issued these negative decisions. Two BIA experts will discuss substantive and procedural trends at the BIA, common Immigration Judge errors to raise on appeal, tips on avoiding summary dismissal including how to handle shifting particular social group case law when an appeal is pending, tips on fee waiver requests, and timing expectations.

Faculty

Andrea Saenz, Senior Counsel, Co-Counsel NYC

Ben Winograd, Attorney at Law, Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center, LLC

Michelle N. Mendez, Director of Legal Resources and Training, National Immigration Project

CLE Credits 

Applications for 1.50 CLE credits are pending with the Washington State Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas.

Uniform Certificates of Attendance will be available for attorneys to request CLE credits in other states. The National Immigration Project is also prepared to provide proof of registration/attendance upon request.

This CLE is hosted and sponsored by the National Immigration Project. 

Registration Fees 

• $75.00  -  General Admission
• $40.00  -  National Immigration Project Members
• $20.00  -  Student (For student discounts, please email us at events@nipnlg.org.)

Thank you to our Event Sponsor, Grossman Young & Hammond, for their sponsorship of this seminar. 

Questions? 

Please send inquiries about the CLE to events@nipnlg.org