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Michael Tan

Deputy Director

桃子视频Immigrants鈥 Rights Project

Bio

Michael Tan is Deputy Director of the 桃子视频Immigrants' Rights Project (IRP). From 2008 to 2022, Michael held a range of roles at IRP, where he began as a Liman Public Interest Fellow and later worked as a Skadden Fellow. Prior to returning to the ACLU, Michael served as Senior Advisor to the Co-Presidents at Community Change, a nationwide organization that empowers low-income people, and particularly low-income people of color, to lead movements for social change. Michael was also a Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, where he co-taught the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, and served as Executive Director of The Movement Project, a new initiative on labor, climate, and migration issues.

Michael is a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School and also holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature from New York University. He clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has received several awards for his work, including a California Lawyer of the Year Award in Immigration Law, a Best Lawyers Under 40 Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and a Best LGBT Lawyer Under the Age of 40 Award from the National LGBT Bar Association.


Featured work

May 28, 2025

What Is Due Process?

What Is Due Process?

Jan 7, 2022

The Biden Administration is on the Wrong Side in This Crucial Supreme Court Immigration Case

The Biden Administration is on the Wrong Side in This Crucial Supreme Court Immigration Case

May 2, 2019

Attorney General Barr Says ICE Has Power to Lock Up Asylum Seekers Without Hearings

Attorney General Barr Says ICE Has Power to Lock Up Asylum Seekers Without Hearings

Feb 14, 2019

Trump Administration Is Illegally Forcing Asylum Seekers Out of the United States

Trump Administration Is Illegally Forcing Asylum Seekers Out of the United States

Oct 2, 2018

No One Should Be Detained Without a Hearing While Fighting Deportation

No One Should Be Detained Without a Hearing While Fighting Deportation

Mar 15, 2018

ICE Is Illegally Imprisoning Asylum Seekers

ICE Is Illegally Imprisoning Asylum Seekers

Mar 5, 2018

Is It Constitutional to Lock Up Immigrants Indefinitely?

Is It Constitutional to Lock Up Immigrants Indefinitely?

Feb 26, 2018

A Supreme Court Rebuke to the Trump Administration on DACA

A Supreme Court Rebuke to the Trump Administration on DACA

Dec 22, 2017

Dreamers Shouldn鈥檛 Lose DACA Status When They Follow the Rules

Dreamers Shouldn鈥檛 Lose DACA Status When They Follow the Rules

Oct 26, 2017

Why Is the Trump Administration Targeting This Outspoken Dreamer?

Why Is the Trump Administration Targeting This Outspoken Dreamer?