Marty Rosenbluth
{{Short description|American lawyer and activist}}
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| name = Marty Rosenbluth
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| alma_mater = Antioch College
University of North Carolina School of Law
}}
Marty Rosenbluth is an immigration lawyer and civil rights activist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2013/06/attorney-nc-immigration-bill-could.html|title=Attorney: N.C. immigration bill could put employers at risk|website=www.bizjournals.com|access-date=2018-10-14}}{{Cite news|url=https://indyweek.com/guides/archives/marty-rosenbluth-fighting-rights-undocumented-immigrants/|title=Marty Rosenbluth: Fighting for the rights of undocumented immigrants|last=Ball|first=Billy|date=2013-01-30|work=INDY Week|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-us}}
Biography
Rosenbluth is a native of New York who attended Antioch College and University of North Carolina School of Law.{{Cite web|url=https://global.unc.edu/news/immigration-attorney-marty-rosenbluth-fights-to-keep-families-together/|title=Immigration Attorney Marty Rosenbluth Fights to Keep Families Together ~ UNC Global|website=global.unc.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-16}} He is Jewish and has said he lost many members of his family during The Holocaust.{{Cite news|url=https://abc11.com/politics/immigration-attorney-says-trump-stoking-fear-and-hatred/1124450/|title=Immigration attorney says Trump stoking fear and hatred|date=2015-12-16|work=ABC11 Raleigh-Durham|access-date=2018-10-14|language=en-US}} He volunteered for Amnesty International and spent seven years in the West Bank as an advocate for Palestinians He helped produce the award-winning documentary Jerusalem: An Occupation Set In Stone? in 1995, which detailed Israel's urban planning policies and the effects they had on Palestinians.{{Cite web|url=http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february162011/occupation-stone-ga.php|title=Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone? - Salem-News.Com|website=www.salem-news.com|access-date=2018-10-16}} He started the non-profit North Carolina Immigration Rights Project to help immigrants in the Durham, North Carolina area. He serves as an associate of Polanco Law PC in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina.
He was part of a group of civil rights activists, including Rose Hamid, who protested Donald Trump campaign rallies in 2016 to protest Trump's treatment of Muslims.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-protests-idUSKCN0UP2HY20160111?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews|title=Muslim woman's silent Trump protest was far from spontaneous|last=Ax|first=Joseph|work=U.S.|access-date=2018-10-14|language=en-US}} He designed the "Go Yellow Against Hate" star badges to accompany the protests.{{Cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/28/opinions/why-i-had-to-stand-up-to-trump-rose-hamid/index.html|title=Why I had to stand up to Trump - CNN|work=CNN|access-date=2018-10-14|language=en}} in 2016 he also provided free legal services to Syrian refugees.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-american-lawyers-helping-syrian-refugees-1476467232|title=The American Lawyers Helping Syrian Refugees|last=Jordan|first=Miriam|date=2016-10-14|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2018-10-14|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}
In 2017 following the inauguration of President Trump, he moved from Hillsborough, North Carolina to Lumpkin, Georgia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-in-detention-centers-are-often-hundreds-of-miles-from-legal-help|title=Immigrants in Detention Centers Are Often Hundreds of Miles From Legal Help — ProPublica|date=2017-05-16|website=ProPublica|language=en-us|others=Patrick G. Lee|access-date=2018-10-14}} Lumpkin has a detention center near the Alabama border and Rosenbluth decided to help refugees being detained there because there were no other lawyers in town, and the closest other lawyers were 140 miles away in Atlanta.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/trump-ice/565772/|title=How Trump Radicalized ICE|website=The Atlantic|date=6 August 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-14}} According to a 2015 study, only about 6% of detainees had a lawyer to represent them. Rosenbluth successfully lured other lawyers to town by offering a spare bedroom in his three bedroom house.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=636961877|title=Journalist: Fear Is A 'Very Powerful Tool' In Trump's Approach To Immigration|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-10-14|language=en}}
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