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Affidavits Are Forever: Public Charge, Domestic Violence, and the Enforceability of Immigration Law’s Affidavit of Support

Veronica Tobar Thronson is a Clinical Professor of Law & Director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Michigan State University College of Law in East Lansing, MI where she also teaches Domestic Violence Law, Family Law: Marriage & Divorce, and Immigration and Nationality Law. Thronson was a visiting professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law for the 2023-2024 academic year, where she directed the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and taught Immigration Law. She served as overall Director of the MSU Law Clinic from 2017 to 2021. Thronson frequently conducts trainings for attorneys and judges and was appointed to the faculty of the National Judicial College in 2012. Since 2015 she has served as expert faculty with the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project at American University Washington College of Law’s National Judicial Network and Family Law Attorneys Community of Practice.

From 2002 to 2010, Thronson was the Directing Attorney of the Domestic Violence Project at the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada where she practiced in the areas of family and immigration law. She also taught Community Property at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV. Previously, Thronson served as the Director of Training and Legal Services at the New York Immigration Coalition, a non-profit umbrella advocacy organization for over 200 groups in New York that work with immigrants, refugees, and asylees. At the NYIC, Thronson developed community outreach materials and programs, and conducted training for advocates and attorneys on immigration and benefits laws and their impact on immigrant communities. She also appeared bi-weekly on an internationally broadcast program of Univision providing information on current immigration law, benefits law and immigrant-related topics and was a regular commentator for other local and national newspapers and radio programs on these topics.

Thronson has served on numerous boards and task forces. Currently, she is a core faculty member of the Michigan State University Research Consortium on Gender-Based Violence and the Michigan State University Center for Gender in Global Context, and Vice-Chair of the board of the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project.

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Immigration law and policy have long been contentious. Legislative gridlock has blocked major reforms to the statutory framework of immigration law, as too often immigration debates are characterized by fundamental misunderstandings of current immigration law and practice. In this void, the implementation of immigration law has experienced significant shifts over the decades on some fronts, making it a constant focus of litigation with far reaching consequences for the economy and millions of families. This program will examine and contextualize some of the major immigration issues currently before the courts and congress.

Making Sense of Immigration Policy: Past, Present, and Future

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