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CAIR Coalition Expands Legal Services to Third Detention Center in Maryland(0)

February 3, 2012

Thanks to a generous grant from The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation, CAIR Coalition will be expanding our legal services program in Maryland to include a third detention facility – the Worcester County Jail in Snow Hill, MD.  Starting in February, CAIR Coalition will be making regular monthly visits to the facility to provide [...]

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Pro Bono Attorneys and Social Work Intern Collaborate to Help Sudanese Refugee

GA is one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” a title given to the tens of thousands of young boys from the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced or orphaned due to ongoing warfare and persecution in Sudan. GA is a Christian member of the Dinka tribe. When he was nine years old, [...]

CAIR Coalition Pro Bono Client Featured in UNHCR Video

Pedro, a torture survivor from Equatorial Guinea and a former CAIR Coalition client is featured in a recent UNHCR video. When Pedro arrived in the U.S. in 2011 he immediately requested asylum – and was promptly detained.  Current U.S. law mandates the detention of all arriving asylum seekers.  If an arriving asylum seeker passes what [...]

CAIR Coalition’s Executive Director Testifies in Support of DC Bill to Limit Impact of Secure Communities

The fight to prevent Secure Communities from taking full effect in the District remained in full swing at the John A. Wilson Building on Friday, January 6, 2012, where Kathryn M. Doan, the executive director of CAIR Coalition, and 19 other witnesses, testified before the Council of the District of Columbia and a room packed [...]


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