Baker Botts L.L.P. Prevents Deportation of 22 Year Resident(0)
As a teenager, ME fled the civil war in El Salvador. Having witnessed the massacre of many of his family members, he entered the United States in 1986 seeking a safe haven and an opportunity to live and work without living in constant fear for his life. Twenty-two years later, he sat in an immigration [...]
CAIR Coalition and Cooley Collaborate on Mental Health Practice Manual
The Practice Manual for Attorneys Representing Detained Immigrants with Mental Health Issues is a joint project of CAIR Coalition and pro bono partner Cooley Godward Kronish. The manual is designed to help attorneys represent immigrants who have mental health issues throughout the immigration detention and removal (deportation) process.
In 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]
Morgan Lewis Helps “Lost Boy” to Remain in the United States
Between 1983 and 2005, more than 27,000 boys were displaced by civil war in southern Sudan. Most of the boys were orphaned or permanently separated from their families when government troops systematically attacked their villages, massacring over 2 million civilians during the decades long conflict. Many of the boys were away from the villages tending [...]