Danicole Ramos
Host: William S. Richardson School of Law Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic
Sponsor: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Current Fellow
Chris (he/him) addresses the deportation and marginalization of noncitizen US military veterans in southwest Texas through outreach, education, and direct representation aimed at veterans with unmet legal needs related to naturalization, VA benefits, and public assistance.
Many immigrants join the military hoping to give back to the nation that they have chosen as their home and to make better lives for themselves and their families. By law, US military service is supposed to provide a streamlined path to citizenship. However, after joining, many immigrants encounter obstacles to naturalization, including administrative hurdles, and others are mistakenly led to believe that merely enlisting in the military made them a citizen without need for additional action. As a result, approximately 100,000 veterans alive today are immigrants who completed military service but never became US citizens.
In the first year of the Fellowship, Chris has:
In the next year, Chris plans to:
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As an American, I think the U.S. should welcome all immigrants. As a veteran, I am appalled that someone who has served, as I did, could ever face deportation.
Chris Rogers /
2023 Equal Justice Works Fellow
Host: William S. Richardson School of Law Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic
Sponsor: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Current Fellow
Host: Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Sponsor: 3M Company, Faegre Baker Daniels
Host: Veterans Legal Services
Sponsor: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Host: Pangea Legal Services
Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, The City of San Jose