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ANN ELISE MCCAFFREY, ESQ

More than a decade of experience working on behalf of immigrant clients to gain protections and legal status in the United States and still going! I represented New Yorkers detained by ICE in the first ever program to fully represent detained immigrants in immigration court as a staff attorney working in the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP). As a staff attorney in the immigration practice at the Bronx Defenders for two years, I worked on hundreds of criminal cases to find immigration-safe dispositions where non-U.S. citizens were charged with crimes. My legal career began on the Arizona/México border, assisting children arrested and detained for deportation as a legal assistant with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. Additional experience includes positions at a transnational workers’ center in Mexico, two public defender organizations in New York City, and the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

I graduated from CUNY School of Law in 2012 and am admitted to practice law in New York Appellate Division for the Second Department. I am admitted in the federal courts of: the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. I speak Spanish.