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Negar Katirai

Law professor, University of Arizona

Negar Katirai is an Assistant Clinical Professor and the Director of the Community Law Group at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law. She is a Tucson Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.

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Immigration

Family Court is no place for ICE

By Negar Katirai,

For ICE agents to detain someone in family court when she is seeking an order of protection against her abuser flies directly in the face of both the letter and the spirit of these laws and punishes the very victims these laws were designed to protect.