Munmeeth Soni

Background:

Meeth (Munmeeth) Soni is the Director of Litigation and Advocacy at Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef).  At ImmDef, Meeth established the Litigation and Advocacy Program to respond to the systematic attacks on immigrant rights occurring throughout the immigration courts and through the immigration enforcement machineries.  Munmeeth has significant expertise on the intersection of immigration law, criminal law, disability law, and constitutional law, and is expert on immigration litigation and legal advocacy strategy for cases in immigration courts, both at the initial and appellate level, as well as federal court strategies for immigrant detainees. Meeth represented Petitioner in the Ninth Circuit published decisions Avendano-Hernandez v. Lynch and Bringas-Rodriguez v. Sessions. Prior to joining ImmDef in May 2016, Meeth spent seven years as an attorney in the immigration unit at the Public Law Center (PLC) in Santa Ana, CA, where she was an Equal Justice Works Fellow and established an asylum and deportation defense practice.

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