This is the fourth in a series of posts by our Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney Michael Lukens providing tips and pointers on how attorneys taking pro bono cases from CAIR Coalition can be more efficient and effective while servicing their clients. The topic of this post is working with clients with limited or no English proficiency.
Day in and day out, I am challenged, inspired and educated by the people I meet inside the immigration detention centers, who above all, have taught me this: people are strong.
U.S. immigration law ordains several key protections for the under-18 set, and unaccompanied immigrant children receive the lion’s share of these. However, these protections dissolve the moment the child turns 18 years old, which can leave a number of vulnerable youth in untenably precarious situations, long before they are developmentally or practically ready to hack it on their own.
-- by Isabel Skilton, CAIR Coalition Summer Intern
Emigration is a courageous act. However, it is easy to forget the heavy sacrifices and obstacles low-income immigrants endure in the hopes of building a better future for themselves and their families in the United States. Ironically, it is not distance that separates our understanding of the struggle – it is often ignorance.
Join us in offering our ongoing thanks, appreciation, and applause to the many CAIR Coalition volunteers who devote countless hours to advance the rights of detained immigrants in the D.C. metropolitan area. Our volunteers provide translation and interpretation services, conduct intake during jail visits, attend Credible and Reasonable Fear Interviews, and provide invaluable telephonic access to counsel for detained immigrants by staffing our detention hotline.
This is the first in a series of posts addressing tips and strategies for the defense of immigrants in removal proceedings and other types of litigation.
CAIR Coalition is proud to join 138 national, state, and local advocacy groups in opposing S. 1814, the “Stop Sanctuary Cities Act.”, a reactionary bill introduced by Senators David Vitter (R-LA), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and John McCain (R-AZ). This bill would force law enforcement agencies to face a dangerous dilemma: choose to unlawfully detain individuals and violate the Fourth Amendment or incur a loss of government funding and keep the trust of the people these agencies work to protect.
Kenault Lawrence, husband to an American wife and father of a 3-year-old American son, was deported on the basis of non-violent marijuana-related criminal convictions. CAIR Coalition represents Kenault in his motion to reopen his immigration proceedings so he can return to the United States to be with his family.
CAIR Coalition is proud to join 143 national, state, and local advocacy groups in opposing H.R. 3009, a dangerous and reactionary bill introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter. This bill is an exercise in political grandstanding and scapegoats all immigrants on the basis of one tragic incident that occurred earlier this month in San Francisco.
Join us in offering our ongoing thanks, appreciation, and applause to the many CAIR Coalition volunteers who devote countless hours to advance the rights of detained immigrants in the D.C. metropolitan area. Our volunteers provide translation and interpretation services, conduct intake during jail visits, attend Credible and Reasonable Fear Interviews, and provide invaluable telephonic access to counsel for detained immigrants by staffing our detention hotline.
The work CAIR Coalition performs for the detained immigrant population of the Capital area would not be possible without the hard work and passionate advocacy of the attorneys who volunteer to take on clients pro bono.
Join us in offering our ongoing thanks, appreciation, and applause to the many CAIR Coalition volunteers who devote countless hours to advance the rights of detained immigrants in the D.C. metropolitan area. Our volunteers provide translation and interpretation services, conduct intake during jail visits, attend Credible and Reasonable Fear Interviews, and provide invaluable telephonic access to counsel for detained immigrants by staffing our detention hotline.
This is the first in a series of posts by our Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney Michael Lukens providing tips and pointers on how attorneys taking pro bono cases from CAIR Coalition can be more efficient and effective while servicing their clients. In this edition, we discuss making the best use of your pro bono mentor.
