阿希兰-阿鲁拉南塔姆 人权律师

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Ahilan Arulanantham
Human Rights Lawyer | Class of 2016
Leading advocacy and legal efforts to secure the right to due process for immigrants facing deportation and working to set new precedents for the constitutional rights of noncitizens.


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Title
Human Rights Lawyer
Affiliation
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California
Location
Los Angeles, California
Age
43 at time of award
Area of Focus
Human Rights and Human Security, Immigration
Website
ACLU: Ahilan Arulanantham
Social
Twitter
Published September 22, 2016
ABOUT AHILAN'S WORK
Ahilan Arulanantham is an attorney working to secure the right to due process for individuals facing deportation. Through advocacy and successful litigation of a series of landmark cases, Arulanantham has expanded immigrant detainees’ access to legal representation and limited the government’s power to detain them indefinitely. Courts have traditionally characterized deportation proceedings as civil cases, which means defendants do not have many of the rights guaranteed to criminal defendants, including the right to counsel and the right to ask for release on bond. As a result, immigrants going through deportation hearings often have to represent themselves in complex proceedings, during which they can be detained for months or even years.

Arulanantham worked with a group of human rights attorneys to challenge indefinite detentions in Nadarajah v Gonzales (2006) and the class action suit Rodriguez v Robbins. The 2013 Rodriguez ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit established that immigrants in pending removal proceedings have the right to ask for bond at a hearing if they have been detained for six months or longer. Hundreds of people in immigration proceedings, including asylum seekers and parents and spouses of U.S. citizens, were immediately given an opportunity to seek release to their families while waiting for their cases to be adjudicated. In 2016, the Supreme Court will consider whether to reverse the Rodriguez ruling or instead extend the right to ask for release on bond nationwide. For the class action suit Franco-Gonzalez v Holder, launched in 2010, Arulanantham led a coalition of attorneys and other advocates to secure the right to appointed counsel for immigrants with mental disabilities. The named plaintiff in the Franco-Gonzalez case had been languishing in detention for nearly five years without a bond hearing or an attorney. The 2013 ruling in the case was the first to entitle an entire class of non-citizens to legal representation.

Arulanantham is currently advocating for extending the right to counsel to another vulnerable population—children placed in deportation proceedings—in J.E.F.M. v Lynch. Through his incremental approach and careful selection of cases, Arulanantham works to demonstrate the human costs of denying due process to immigrants and to set vital precedents to expand the rights of non-citizens.

BIOGRAPHY
Ahilan Arulanantham received B.A. degrees from Georgetown University (1994) and the University of Oxford, Lincoln College (1996) and a J.D. (1999) from the Yale Law School. He was an Equal Justice Works fellow (2000–2002) with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, an assistant federal public defender (2002–2004) in El Paso, Texas, and lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School (2010) and the University of California, Irvine, School of Law (2015). In 2004, he returned to the ACLU, where he is currently director of advocacy and legal director of the ACLU of Southern California and affiliated with the Immigrants’ Rights Project (since 2012).



阿希兰-阿鲁拉南塔姆
人权律师 | 2016级
领导宣传和法律工作，确保面临驱逐出境的移民享有正当程序的权利，并努力为非公民的宪法权利树立新的先例。


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标题
人权律师
所属机构
南加州美国公民自由联盟
工作地点
洛杉矶，加利福尼亚
年龄
获奖时43岁
关注领域
人权和人类安全, 移民
网站
美国公民自由联盟。Ahilan Arulanantham
社交网络
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发表于2016年9月22日
关于Ahilan的工作
Ahilan Arulanantham是一名律师，致力于确保面临驱逐出境的个人享有正当程序的权利。通过对一系列具有里程碑意义的案件的宣传和成功诉讼，阿鲁兰南特姆扩大了移民被拘留者获得法律代理的机会，并限制了政府无限期拘留他们的权力。法院传统上将驱逐出境程序定性为民事案件，这意味着被告不享有刑事被告所保障的许多权利，包括聘请律师的权利和要求保释的权利。因此，经历递解出境听证会的移民往往不得不在复杂的程序中代表自己，在此期间，他们可能会被拘留数月甚至数年。

Arulanantham与一群人权律师合作，在Nadarajah诉Gonzales案（2006年）和Rodriguez诉Robbins的集体诉讼案中挑战无限期拘留。美国第九巡回上诉法院2013年对罗德里格斯案的裁决确定，如果被拘留6个月或更长时间，处于待遣返程序的移民有权在听证会上要求保释。数百名处于移民程序中的人，包括寻求庇护者和美国公民的父母和配偶，立即获得了一个机会，在等待他们的案件被裁决时寻求释放他们的家人。2016年，最高法院将考虑是否推翻罗德里格斯的裁决，或将要求保释的权利扩大到全国。对于2010年发起的Franco-Gonzalez诉Holder的集体诉讼案，Arulanantham领导了一个律师和其他倡导者联盟，以确保有精神障碍的移民获得指定律师的权利。弗朗科-冈萨雷斯案中的原告在没有保释听证或律师的情况下被拘留了近五年。2013年对该案的裁决是第一个让整个类别的非公民有权获得法律代表的裁决。

Arulanantham目前正在J.E.F.M.诉Lynch一案中倡导将获得律师的权利扩大到另一个弱势群体--被置于驱逐程序中的儿童。通过他的渐进式方法和对案件的谨慎选择，阿鲁拉南塔姆努力证明拒绝为移民提供正当程序的人类代价，并为扩大非公民的权利树立重要的先例。

个人简历
Ahilan Arulanantham在乔治敦大学（1994年）和牛津大学林肯学院（1996年）获得学士学位，在耶鲁大学法学院获得法学博士学位（1999年）。他曾是美国公民自由联盟移民权利项目的平等正义工程研究员（2000-2002），德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的助理联邦公设辩护人（2002-2004），以及芝加哥大学法学院（2010）和加州大学欧文分校法学院（2015）的讲师。2004年，他回到美国公民自由联盟，目前是南加州公民自由联盟的宣传主任和法律主任，并隶属于移民权利项目（自2012年）。