Ahilan T. Arulanantham joins Immigration Nerds. Ahilan is a Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law and former Senior Counsel at the ACLU in Los Angeles.

Co-hosted by Lead Researcher, Luke Bianco.

We discuss:

• TPS litigation and Supreme Court arguments
• Nadarajah v. Gonzales, the first Ninth Circuit case establishing limits on the government’s power to detain immigrants as national security threats
• Ahilan’s leadership in defense of immigrant rights at the ACLU during the previous administration
• Advice for young lawyers/law students who want to make a positive impact in the field