Beth Lyon
@profbethlyon
Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
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19-11-2011 11:03:43
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1/4 Tune in today for the public sessions of the Research Summit on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Combating Online Xenophobia organized by Define American and the Cornell University Xenophobia Meter Project. All times Eastern.
An asylum seeker spent 6 months in ICE detention unable to communicate with anyone bc AI translation tools didn't understand his dialect. His asylum app also had discrepancies: His home city, Belo Horizonte, was translated literally to beautiful horizon. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s…
🗣️📣Join us on Sept. 8 for a thought-provoking conversation between @Joseiswriting and Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫 🏳️🌈 on the impact of misinformation on #immigrantcommunities .
You don't want to miss it! 🤩
RSVP for in-person: eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-w…
Or join us online at bit.ly/Disinformation…
The Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law will expand the entrepreneurship law clinic to Roosevelt Island, add 2 new practitioners & give Cornell J.D.s the opportunity to work with NYC start-ups: bit.ly/3OswZLy
Cornell Law School @Cornell #LLM #LawTech #CornellTech
Join me & others across the country this weekend who are demanding justice for the lives taken and violated by these systems and calling for the closure of these deadly cages. #FreeDaniel #JusticeForErnesto #ShutThemDown 5/5
bit.ly/12HoursToolKit
Working class ppl deserve their hard-earned tax $$ President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris to be spent on things that improve their lives and communities, like education, infrastructure, food sustainability, addressing climate change, & more. 3/5
After much counsel & consideration, I have decided to release an audio recording taken inside Immigration Detention–a multibillion dollar business (GEO Group News Team) profiting off dehumanizing warehousing of Black, Indigenous, and other immigrants of color. 1/5 bit.ly/WhatIsThisAudio
Officers working for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative were ordered to push 'small children and nursing babies' back into the Rio Grande, according to an email from a trooper
'I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane' expressnews.com/politics/texas…
Filed a brief last week w/NYS Public Emplymnt Rel. Bd. (PERB) arguing int'l & foreign law mandate union rights for H-2A workers. Thanks Amici Global Labor Justice (GLJ-ILRF), Int'l Cmm'n for Labor Rights & ILAWnetwork, co-authors Lance Compa & Sarah Paoletti, and contributors Eric Tucker & Leah Vosko!
Today has been a long time coming. After years of tireless advocacy by the imm rights community, LA City has taken an impt step toward #DueProcess4All by funding legal rep for Angelenos facing imm court w/o exclusions that recycle harmful “good” v “bad” imm narratives.
