Four students working with LSU Immigration Law Clinic successfully argued cases for their clients in recent court cases.
Class of 2017 students Lindsay Elliott-Smith, Kameron Keene and Logan Luquette each obtained Legal Permanent Resident status for their clients, who hailed from Mexico and Yemen.
Recent class of 2016 graduate Philip Hunter, from Alexandria, successfully obtained United States citizenship for his Sudanese clients who were one of the early waves of Lost Boys. The Lost Boys of Sudan is the name given to groups who were displaced and/or orphaned during conflicts in the African country of Sudan.
The LSU Immigration Law Clinic is open to LSU Law 2L and 3L students. In the clinic, students receive intensive instruction in the substantive law, procedures and concepts needed to represent clients in immigration matters — including defensive clients in detention and removal proceedings and related appeals, representation of crime victims and immigrant survivors of domestic violence, and representation of asylum seekers both in affirmative and defensive applications for asylum. Student attorneys represent clients before the immigration courts in Oakdale and New Orleans as well as before the immigration agencies that adjudicate claims for immigration benefits.
