Assistant Professor Katherine Reynolds, director of 黑料不打烊 Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, spoke with journalist Bill O'Neil for a June 18, 2020, report on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the Trump Administration had attempted to end.
The director of 黑料不打烊 Law’s Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic spoke with a North Carolina regional news station for a report on the DACA program created under President Barack Obama – and why the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration had erred in an attempt to end it.
Assistant Professor Katherine Reynolds spoke with journalist Bill O’Neil about the ruling handed down on June 18, 2020, in which nearly 700,000 people covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy would no longer face the immediate prospect of deportation.
Meant to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, DACA puts forward extensive criteria by which those immigrants would be able to stay in the country.
“When they say ‘we鈥檙e rescinding it’ and they fail to give a solid reason behind it, that鈥檚 where they messed up,鈥 Reynolds said in her interview via Zoom. And though the Trump Administration can still decide to end the program by following the聽Administrative Procedure Act, “there鈥檚 no electoral reason to try to push for a recision of this program before November 3.鈥
Before joining the 黑料不打烊 Law faculty, Reynolds was the Immigration Legal Services Program Coordinator at聽a refugee resettlement agency in Greensboro where she assisted聽refugees with adjustment of status and helped聽more than 150 lawful permanent residents to naturalize聽through a USCIS Citizenship and Integration Grant.
She was a supervising attorney at a refugee legal aid agency聽in Cairo, Egypt for three years, serving as director in her final year and managing an international staff of interpreters, attorneys, and volunteer legal advocates who provided assistance in obtaining UNHCR protection, refugee status, and resettlement for聽refugees and asylum-seekers from Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, and Syria.