Niels W. Frenzen
Expert on immigration and refugee law
Clinical Professor of Law
Director of Immigration Clinic
USC Gould School of Law
Contact at: (213) 740-8933 (office), (213) 842-2526 (cell) or nfrenzen@law.usc.edu
Expertise:
- United States immigration law
- refugee and asylum law
- forced migration
- extraterritorial border controls
- migration by sea
- maritime migration toward Europe
- Frontex, the European border control agency
- U.S. and European maritime interdiction practices, including push-back and interception at sea
- search and rescue obligations at sea
- deportation for reasons of national security or terrorism
- use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings
- Haitian boat people and refugees, including U.S. interdiction of Haitian boat people on the high seas
- post-Gulf War Iraqi refugees
- transgender asylum seekers
- the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- immigration detention practices
- President, Program for Torture Victims
- Member, National Advisory Committee, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
- Member, numerous human rights monitoring missions to Haiti, El Salvador, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo
- Past president and board member, Coalition for Humane Immigrants' Rights of Los Angeles
- Author of numerous op-ed pieces in Los Angeles Times
More:
For more information go to:
http://lawweb.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=214&type=Media
http://migrantsatsea.wordpress.com/
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