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Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic

Students in the Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic at the Florida International University College of Law represent immigrants of all nationalities in various immigration matters. The Clinic’s clients include refugees seeking asylum in the United States as a result of political persecution in their countries of origin; Cuban and Haitian nationals seeking relief under country-specific immigration legislation; and other vulnerable populations, such as abused spouses and children, unaccompanied minors, and aliens subject to immigration detention. Representation occurs in adversarial administrative hearings before immigration judges; in non-adversarial agency interviews; in appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals; and, as necessary, in appeals to the federal courts and to international bodies.

Professor Troy E. Elder

Clinic law students are supervised by Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Troy E. Elder. Professor Elder, who speaks Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole, comes to the College of Law from the University of Miami School of Law, where he directed a community-based poverty health and immigration clinic. Professor Elder, who is a licensed Florida attorney, has many years of experience working with immigrant communities, including those in Miami’s Little Haiti; New York City’s Spanish Harlem, and in New Haven, Connecticut.

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