James Lyall – Staff Attorney, ACLU of Arizona’s Border Litigation Project Based in Tucson, James conducts litigation and advocacy related to civil and human rights abuse in the U.S.-Mexico border region, including violations arising from Border Patrol interior enforcement operations, detention conditions, and use of force. Prior to joining the ACLU in 2011, James was a Georgetown Law Fellow at the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project in Los Angeles, where he provided pro bono legal representation to detained immigrants in removal proceedings, specializing in representation of unaccompanied immigrant children in state and federal court proceedings. He subsequently worked as a volunteer with Tucson-based No More Deaths, where he co-authored Culture of Cruelty, a report documenting widespread Border Patrol abuse along the US-Mexico border. A native of Massachusetts, James is a 2007 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he completed a certificate program in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies.