Internet Resources On Immigration & Drug Policy

Prepared for the panel entitled "Collateral Damage: Immigrants and the War on Drugs" during the 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference.

Operation Meth Merchant

• The Racial Justice Campaign Against Operation Meth Merchant
• ACLU Factsheet on Operation Meth Merchant
• Community Organizing Against Deportation Families for Freedom (New York)

Immigration Consequences Of Drug Offenses

Websites include charts analyzing the immigration consequences various states' criminal drug laws and other offenses

• The Immigrant Defense Project of the New York State Defenders Association 
• The Immigrant Legal Resource Center
• The National Immigration Project
• The National Legal Aid and Defender Association 
• The Washington Defender Association Immigration Project

Reports

• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, The Immigration Consequences of Deferred Adjudication Programs in New York City (June 2007). This report explains why and how problem-solving courts, including drug courts, should ensure that alternatives to incarceration do not place immigrants at risk of deportation.
  
• Human Rights Watch, Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States Deportation Policy (July 2007). This report explores national immigration policy on the expansive criminal grounds of deportation and the harm it does to families in the United States.

For more information, please contact:

Alina Das
Soros Justice Fellow
NYSDA Immigrant Defense Project
3 West 29th St., Suite 803
New York, NY 10001
Tel: (212) 725-6486
Fax: (800) 391-5713
adas at nysda dot org

Deepali Gokhale
Campaign Organizer
Racial Justice Campaign Against Operation Meth Merchant
PO Box 20489
Atlanta, GA 30325
Tel: 404-822-5090
stopomm at mindspring dot com

Kirk A. James
Families for Freedom member &
Associate Director of Administration
The College Initiative
Lehman College
250 Bedford Park Blvd W.
Bronx, NY  10468
Tel: (718) 960-1972
Fax: (718) 960-1974
kirkajames at gmail dot com

Subhash Kateel
Community Organizer
Soros Justice Fellow
Florida Immigrant Coalition (Miami, Florida)
Tel: 347-524-3374
subhash at familiesforfreedom dot org