Ahilan T. Arulanantham | From ACLU to UCLA : A Human Right's Change Agent

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 argumentsNadarajah v. Gonzales, the first Ninth Circuit case establishing limits on the government’s power to detain immigrants as national security threatsAhilan’s leadership in defense of immigrant rights at the ACLU during the previous administrationAdvice for young lawyers/law students who want to make a positive impact in the field