"She did chores for a host family—then ended up in US immigration detention"
USA Today quoted Alberto Benitez on what constitutes “work” when visiting the US on a Visa.
Alberto M. Benítez
Alberto M. Benítez
Professor of Clinical Law; Director, Immigration Clinic
Contact:
2000 H Street, NW
Washington DC 20052
Before joining the law school faculty as Director of the Immigration Clinic in 1996, Alberto M. Benítez was on the faculty of the legal clinics at Chicago Kent College of Law and Northwestern University. Prior to becoming a clinician, he was a Staff Attorney at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, as well as an intern at the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor Benítez teaches Immigration Law I. In addition, in the summers he has taught at the law schools of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and the Universidad Panamericana, in Mexico City. In the spring 2003 semester Professor Benítez was a visitor at the Boyd School of Law of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, assisting in the development of that law school’s immigration clinic.
In the News
"As Trump inauguration approaches, uncertainty for foreign college students"
The Washington Post quoted Alberto Benitez on the uncertainty students are facing under Trump administration and simply focus on their studies and obey the law.
"Conservatives call for Biden to shut down border on his own. Experts say it's not that simple"
Spectrum News quoted Alberto Benitez describing the legal steps in order to control a border and the dangers and criticisms that go along with that control.
BA, JD, State University of New York at Buffalo