October 27, 2017 By: Lily Hartmann, AI Justice Jonathan Demme Human Rights Advocate I came to AI Justice in early September from Providence, RI, where I worked with refugee community leaders and other stakeholders to support refugee families who had already been given the right to protection here while in their home countries or refugee camps. But the situation for …
REFLECTION ON “BUILDING THE WALL” AND DISCUSSION BETWEEN CHERYL LITTLE AND THE PLAYWRIGHT
October 6, 2017 By: Lily Hartmann, AI Justice Jonathan Demme Human Rights Advocate “Who would want to come to the U.S. now?” asks Rick, a convicted former private prison manager, in his final line of playwright Robert Schenkkan’s BUILDING THE WALL. The play tells the story of an overcrowded Texas immigration detention center where a private prison company prioritizes its …
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USCRI EXPANDS LEGAL SERVICES FOR UNACCOMPANIED IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
Newsletter | Fall 2014 Vol. 18, Issue No. 3 The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has awarded AI Justice a million dollar one year grant to expand direct legal representation services for Central American unaccompanied minor children after their release from government custody. This is part of a pilot program that targets children’s cases in eight immigration courts …
SPOTLIGHT ON LUCHA
Newsletter | Fall 2014 Vol. 18, Issue No. 3 Did you know that an abuser can use their partner’s immigration status as a tool to exert further power and control in a violent relationship? Abusers may fail to file papers on their spouses’ behalf that would allow them to obtain legal status so that they can continue to abuse them. …
AI JUSTICE IN THE COMMUNITY
Newsletter | Fall 2014 Vol. 18, Issue No. 3 AI Justice is working closely with Catholic Charities Legal Services, AILA, CABA, FIU and UM to train attorneys willing to offer pro bono services to unaccompanied minors from Central America whose court cases have been “fast tracked.” Three trainings for attorneys in private practice were conducted in the past few months …
THE LEGAL EQUIVALENT OF TRIAGE IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM…
Last month, the Daily Business Review published a story about the “rocket dockets” which have been adopted here in Miami to push unaccompanied minors through the legal system. Four full-time judges and one part-time judge see up to 150 kids a day – as many as 60 cases per judge. So what does the “rocket docket” look like in action? On Tuesday …
Spring 2014 Client Success Stories
Newsletter | Spring 2014 Vol. 18, Issue No. 2 Children’s Success Story: Alfonso Five year old Alfonso was found screaming, alone in his apartment after his mother had been deported. His father was incarcerated and with no other family that could be located, he was placed in foster care in Miami Dade County. His foster mother, Tamara, decided to legally …