PERSON: Patrick Young

CARECEN Long Island

Immigration Attorney

Patrick Young is an immigration attorney and immigrant rights advocate. He has represented thousands of immigrants before the immigration courts, the INS, and the Department of Homeland Security. He was co-counsel on two successful Federal lawsuits and he wrote the winning brief in the United States Court of Appeals case that established the standard of eligibility for political asylum in New York. He is the co-author of the Master Exhibit on Human Rights in Peru published by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Patrick was the founding Chairperson of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance and he served seven terms as the Chair of the Board of the New York Immigration Coalition. He serves as the Coalition’s Executive Vice Chairperson.



Patrick is Program Director at CARECEN and co-founder of the Long Island Civic Engagement Table, which works to increase civic activism in immigrant communities. He is Special Professor of Immigration Law at Hofstra University School of Law and in 2012 he was named Co-Director of Hofstra’s Immigration Law Clinic. He blogs on Long Island Wins and is a Policy Analyst for the New York State Immigrant Action Fund.



Patrick is currently writing a history of immigrant participation in the American Civil War.

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