Marty Rosenbluth
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Alma materAntioch College
University of North Carolina School of Law

Marty Rosenbluth is an immigration lawyer and civil rights activist.[1][2]

Biography

Rosenbluth is a native of New York who attended Antioch College and University of North Carolina School of Law.[2][3] He is Jewish and has said he lost many members of his family during The Holocaust.[4] He volunteered for Amnesty International and spent seven years in the West Bank as an advocate for Palestinians[2][3] He helped produce the award-winning documentary Jerusalem: An Occupation Set In Stone? in 1995, which detailed Israel's urban planning policies and the effects they had on Palestinians.[5] He started the non-profit North Carolina Immigration Rights Project to help immigrants in the Durham, North Carolina area.[1] He serves as an associate of Polanco Law PC in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina.[3]

He was part of a group of civil rights activists, including Rose Hamid, who protested Donald Trump campaign rallies in 2016 to protest Trump's treatment of Muslims.[6][4] He designed the "Go Yellow Against Hate" star badges to accompany the protests.[7] in 2016 he also provided free legal services to Syrian refugees.[8]

In 2017 following the inauguration of President Trump, he moved from Hillsborough, North Carolina to Lumpkin, Georgia.[9] Lumpkin has a detention center near the Alabama border and Rosenbluth decided to help refugees being detained there because there were no other lawyers in town, and the closest other lawyers were 140 miles away in Atlanta.[10] According to a 2015 study, only about 6% of detainees had a lawyer to represent them.[9] Rosenbluth successfully lured other lawyers to town by offering a spare bedroom in his three bedroom house.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Attorney: N.C. immigration bill could put employers at risk". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  2. 1 2 3 Ball, Billy (2013-01-30). "Marty Rosenbluth: Fighting for the rights of undocumented immigrants". INDY Week. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  3. 1 2 3 "Immigration Attorney Marty Rosenbluth Fights to Keep Families Together ~ UNC Global". global.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  4. 1 2 "Immigration attorney says Trump stoking fear and hatred". ABC11 Raleigh-Durham. 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  5. ↑ "Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone? - Salem-News.Com". www.salem-news.com. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  6. ↑ Ax, Joseph. "Muslim woman's silent Trump protest was far from spontaneous". U.S. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  7. ↑ "Why I had to stand up to Trump - CNN". CNN. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  8. ↑ Jordan, Miriam (2016-10-14). "The American Lawyers Helping Syrian Refugees". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  9. 1 2 "Immigrants in Detention Centers Are Often Hundreds of Miles From Legal Help — ProPublica". ProPublica. Patrick G. Lee. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2018-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ↑ "How Trump Radicalized ICE". The Atlantic. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  11. ↑ "Journalist: Fear Is A 'Very Powerful Tool' In Trump's Approach To Immigration". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
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