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Published on: 6/11/2008
Last Visited: 6/15/2008
Come have dinner with Ajay Bhatt, Esq., Neha Misra, Esq., and Sajit Gandhi.
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Ajay Bhatt, Esq.Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Human Rights Law Division (HRLD)
Ajay Bhatt is an attorney with the Human Rights Law Division (HRLD) in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Department of Homeland Security.ICE investigates "persecutor cases," which involve individuals who allegedly committed torture, extrajudicial killing, and severe violations of religious freedom abroad before seeking citizenship through the U.S. immigration system.HRLD provides legal and policy guidance to its special agents, trial attorneys, and removal officers in order to advance ICE's stated policy goal of denying "safe haven" inthe U.S. to war criminals, genocidaires, and torturers, and other human rights abusers.Before joining HRLD in 2005, he served as a Human Rights Advisor in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State.Bhatt attended Syracuse University (BA), the University of Chicago (MA), and the University of Oregon (JD).