Christopher Stender is an immigration attorney who is fluent in both Spanish and German. With more than a decade of experience practicing immigration law, he has successfully argued numerous cases on behalf of clients facing deportation before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In his spare time, Christopher Stender has donated his time or financial support to several charities including Homeless Outreach, Cesar Chavez School Mission, and the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP).

1. FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS
PROJECT HELPS ARIZONA’S DETAINEES
Christopher Stender, Immigration Attorney

2. INTRODUCTION
 Christopher Stender is an immigration attorney who is fluent in
both Spanish and German. With more than a decade of
experience practicing immigration law, he has successfully
argued numerous cases on behalf of clients facing deportation
before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals. In his spare time, Christopher Stender has donated
his time or financial support to several charities including
Homeless Outreach, Cesar Chavez School Mission, and the
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP).
FIRRP provides free legal services to the more than 3,000 people
who are being held in detention facilities on immigration issues in
Florence and Eloy, Arizona, as well as a children’s facility in
Phoenix.

3. FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS
PROJECT
 The organization was created 1989 at the behest of a judge who
recognized that the public defender system was grossly
insufficient to protect the constitutional rights of detained
immigrants without the means to press their cases for legal
status.
FIRRP also generates materials to educate detainee immigrants
on the legal rights of those in their predicament. These materials
are disseminated nationally to immigration organizations, legal
service providers, and other groups. FIRRP has been recognized
by the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other
agencies and organizations as making a national contribution to
the mission of treating detained immigrants fairly and justly
across the country and of helping to build a more efficient legal
system in its treatment of immigrants.