Sarah Sherman-Stokes
Clinical Instructor, School of Law at Boston University
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Sarah Sherman-Stokes is a clinical instructor in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Ms. Sherman-Stokes co-teaches seminars on Core Lawyering Skills and Advanced Trial Advocacy and supervises students representing newly arrived unaccompanied children facing deportation, refugees fleeing human rights abuses, and other vulnerable immigrants in court and administrative proceedings.
Previously, Ms. Sherman-Stokes was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project where she represented non-citizens in removal proceedings before the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals, with a special focus on the representation of detained, mentally ill refugees. Ms. Sherman-Stokes has led trainings on the representation of mentally ill non-citizens in removal proceedings, detention and deportation, and has guest-lectured at Boston College Law School and Roger Williams University School of Law. Ms. Sherman-Stokes is the co-chair of the Criminal-Immigration Working Group at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. Ms. Sherman-Stokes graduated cum laude from Boston College Law School, where she was the recipient of a Public Service Scholarship. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bates College.
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Trump’s assault on immigrant children must stop
February 6, 2018
The Hill Sarah Sherman-Stokes President Trump’s State of the Union address was replete with immigration talking points, many of which were ill-informed or simply untrue… Expert quote: “In essence, rather than being immediately deported upon apprehension at the border, these children now are given a chance to make their case before an immigration judge or agency.” […]
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A Minor Fight In A Boston School Landed One Student In ICE Custody, Advocates Fear
January 26, 2018
WBUR Sarah Sherman-Stokes Boston Public Schools is coming under fire from immigration advocates over concerns about the sharing of student information with federal immigration officials… Expert quote: “Once he’s labeled a gang member or a gang associate, that information gets replicated across databases, and it looks as though he’s being ID’d as a gang member […]
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Immigration judges were always overworked. Now they’ll be untrained, too.
July 11, 2017
Washington Post by Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law “America’s immigration judges have long been overburdened and under-resourced. One immigration judge has compared her job to ‘doing death-penalty cases in a traffic-court setting’…” View full article.
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HOW SANCTUARY CITIES CAN PROTECT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FROM ICE DATA MINING
June 16, 2017
The Intercept quoting Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law “NEW YORK CITY dodged a bullet in April when a federal judge allowed the destruction of more than 900,000 records of applicants for IDNYC, a citywide identification card program that was heavily marketed towards the vast local population of undocumented immigrants…” Expert quote: “My client was going to school full-time […]
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Number Of Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England
May 31, 2017
WBUR quoting Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law “Under President Trump, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are casting a broader net when it comes to who they’re prioritizing for arrest…” Expert quote: “This administration is carrying out the mass deportation agenda that it promised on the campaign trail.” View full article.
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ICE Agents And The Power Of Discretion In Immigration Enforcement
March 7, 2017
WNPR Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law At a sports bar in Randolph, the TV in the corner is tuned to Fox News and there’s a White House press briefing on… Expert quote: “Because there is a sort of unpredictability or, maybe better put, the only thing that’s predictable is a heightened degree of aggressive enforcement, […]
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Detention centers, bracing for flood of new arrivals, are ‘set up to fail’ immigrants with mental illness
December 19, 2016
STAT News Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally. But before they can be sent packing across the border, most will spend time in detention centers… Expert quote: “I don’t think Trump is interested in the minutiae of immigration detention.” […]
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Teach-Ins in the Time of Trump
December 2, 2016
CityLab Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law On November 9, the day after the election, Alina Das walked into her class at New York University School of Law and saw fear… Expert quote: Still, “people are feeling an understandable urgency, and there’s a desire to get information into people’s hands very quickly.” View full article
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With Case Backlogs Rising, Immigration Courts Struggle To Protect The ‘Vulnerable’
March 22, 2016
WBUR Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law Sitting in a small shared office space at the Boston University Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Sarah Sherman-Stokes, a clinical teaching fellow, instructs a young client from El Salvador about his next appointment in immigration court… Expert quote: “People are facing really life or death situations and many of them don’t […]
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The Refugee Dilemma
November 30, 2015
The New Yorker Sarah Sherman-Stokes, School of Law Nelson Kargbo was eleven years old when rebel soldiers attacked his village, Kamalo, in northern Sierra Leone… Expert quote: “Their bad acts, which are often fuelled by substance abuse, tend to be responses to untreated, protracted complex trauma. And then we send them back to the place […]
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