Her work focuses on disentangling federal immigration enforcement from local law enforcement through policy advocacy, litigation, and coalition-building. She also tracks and addresses violations of the TRUST and TRUTH Acts, California laws that place limitations on local law enforcement’s interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In addition, Saira litigates police misconduct cases, most recently involving violations of language access and local sanctuary ordinances. Saira began working with Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus as a Berkeley Law Public Interest Fellow in the Immigrant Rights’ Program, where she focused on representation of immigrants in deportation proceedings. Saira received her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law and her B.A. from UC Berkeley.