Helping Young Migrants Navigate Immigration Court

By Nancy Ayala, Voices of NY
August 25, 2014

For the thousands of recently arrived Central American migrant children now in New York, avoiding deportation begins when the juveniles show up for their first immigration hearing in federal court.

“It’s a very complicated law and no pro se or unrepresented child should be asked to try to navigate the complexity of at least three or four agencies in courts [without a lawyer],” Lenni Benson, director of the nonprofit Safe Passage Project and a professor of law at New York Law School, told Voices of NY.

On Friday, August 22, Safe Passage Project offered a two-hour evening training session, “Getting Started Representing Child Migrants,” in an auditorium at the New York Law School, where the pro bono advocacy group is based. [...]

Read the full article:
http://www.voicesofny.org/2014/08/helping-young-migrants-navigate-immigration-court/?utm_source=Voices+Newsletter&utm_campaign=80101fa4aa-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffee07af47-80101fa4aa-32376317