Why Criminal & Family Lawyers Matter in Immigration Cases: Enforcement Trends, Family Impact & Community Protection 2026

Before she started The Law Office of Rosina C. Stambaugh in York, Ms. Stambaugh was an associate at The Law Office of Christopher A. Ferro, LLC, where she handled the firm’s immigration services and a variety of criminal cases, many of which included complex immigration issues. She focuses her practice on removal defense in the detained and non-detained settings. Ms. Stambaugh has extensive experience with all forms of relief from removal and has successfully litigated cases in different Immigration Courts throughout the U.S., the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She also represents individuals and families applying for affirmative benefits with U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. The daughter of Italian immigrants, Ms. Stambaugh understands the importance of immigration and its effects on all aspects of a person’s life. Ms. Stambaugh is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL), the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA), the PBA Immigration Law Committee, the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Unauthorized Practice of Law and Immigration Law Committees and the York County Bar Association (YCBA). Ms. Stambaugh is also a member of the York County Bar Association Board of Directors. Ms. Stambaugh is admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Stambaugh was selected as a Rising Star for 2019, 2020 and 2021 by Super Lawyers for immigration law in Pennsylvania. She also was the recipient of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Attorney of the Year in 2017 as well as the York County Bar association Pro Bono Attorney of the Year for 2020. In 2016, she received the Light of Liberty Attorney of the Year by the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC), and she was selected as a Susquehanna Valley’s Select Lawyer for Immigration Law in York in 2014 and 2015. Ms. Stambaugh received her B.A., Summa Cum Laude, in Political Science from York College of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, where she received the Nancy Howard Finkelman Scholarship, awarded to deserving, advanced-standing and extended-division students who have demonstrated scholastic excellence in the area of trial advocacy. While attending Widener, Ms. Stambaugh worked full-time at the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC) as a legal secretary and a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) Accredited Representative. She worked with the detained immigration population at the York County Prison and represented several immigrants going through removal proceedings at the York Immigration Court. Ms. Stambaugh was also a legal volunteer intern at the York Immigration Court, where she provided legal research and writing assistance to the immigration judges. Ms. Stambaugh speaks Spanish, Italian and conversational French. She lives in York County with her husband and three children. She and her family enjoy outdoor activities and traveling.

Attorney Hillary A. Madden is a native of the Lehigh Valley and graduate of Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She attended Gettysburg College where she competed on both the volleyball and basketballs teams. After graduating from Gettysburg in 2007, she continued her education at the Widener University School of Law (now known as Widener University Commonwealth Law School) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. During her time at Widener, she was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and Trial Advocacy Honor Society and served as the Community Outreach Chair for the latter. She graduated from Widener in 2010 and was recognized with the Outstanding Service Award and graduated cum laude. Hillary started her legal career as a judicial law clerk for the former President Judge, Ronald E. Vican at the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas and, upon his retirement, continued her judicial clerkship with the Honorable David J. Williamson. In 2012 Hillary accepted a temporary position as an Assistant District Attorney in the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office and left in 2013 to join the firm of Royle & Durney (now known as Durney &Worthington). Since joining the firm of Durney & Worthington Hillary has had extensive experience in criminal defense work having served as conflict counsel for the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas from 2013-2017 and has litigated a variety of cases from DUI to Attempted Homicide. Along with criminal defense, Hillary has been serving as a Guardian Ad Litem for children in dependency proceedings since 2013 and a Custody Conciliator for the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas since 2015. As a result, Hillary routinely represents clients in dependency and orphans court matters.