Episode 6 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Cody Wofsy. Currently he is the Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project where his work focuses on limiting state and local entanglement with immigration enforcement, protecting access to asylum, ensuring judicial review, and challenging abusive federal enforcement practices.

He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before his work at the ACLU, he was a law clerk to Judge Marsha Berzon of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Myron Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He then won a Skadden fellowship which he spent working the with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project.

He has litigated numerous cases at all levels of federal and state courts, including blocking asylum bans, limiting the use of immigration detainers, challenging the Muslim Ban, and curtailing unlawful expedited removal practices. Recently he has also been lead counsel in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s claim that the long-running understanding of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment is mistaken: according to the Justice Department, children born in the U.S. whose parents are persons who are not domiciled in the U.S. are not in fact entitled to U.S. Citizenship.

He spoke to students in the seminar about Immigration Control and Rendition under the Trump Administration. Uniquely among the speakers in our seminar series, he exercised his privilege to ask that we not publish his talk in order to avoid telegraphing any litigation strategy to opposing parties who might be watching.