This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
Overview
Immigration enforcement is dominating national news — and the ripple effects are landing in local courtrooms.
This CLE equips attorneys with the tools they need to help protect immigrant clients and strengthen community stability. As immigration enforcement expands in 2026—through increased ICE priorities, more prosecutions, and broader use of detention—its impact reaches far beyond immigration courts.
Attendees will learn how to recognize immigration risks in the community, how to prevent avoidable harm, and how to work collaboratively with immigration counsel to preserve families and community safety. Practical strategies and step‑by‑step tools will be provided to help attorneys protect clients’ rights, maintain family stability, and ensure that vulnerable immigrant community members receive informed, competent legal advocacy during a critical moment of heightened enforcement.
This program is ripped from today’s news cycle and translates fast-moving enforcement trends into practical guidance for attorneys.
Co-sponsored by the Immigration Law Committee. Not a member? Join today!
Recorded in March 2026.
Faculty
Rosina C. Stambaugh, Esq.
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.
Christina L. Powers, Esq.
Christina L. Powers is a dedicated Immigration Staff Attorney at Jewish Family and Community Services (JFCS) in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and has been a staff attorney at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project since 2006. She has advised hundreds of detainees on possible relief from removal and represented dozens of individuals in bond proceedings. She is a 2006 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.
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