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In reply to the discussion: My son's law firm is sending attorneys to Brownsville [View all]Gothmog
(143,999 posts)51. Here is an e-mail that I just received from the President of the Texas state bar association
I am proud of my profession
Dear Member,
This week I traveled to the border to learn how we can promote access to justice and the rule of law related to the separation of immigrant families. I met with a number of dedicated attorneys and organizations that are working long hours and pouring all of their energies into ensuring that children and parents are reunited and that legal rights are protected through due process of law.
Im saddened to report that many children are still separated from their parents. Attorneys who visited an adult detention facility recounted women sobbing immediately upon being asked whether their children had been taken away. Others described struggling to explain legal rights to detained children whose sole desire was to be back with their parents. These accounts are from pro bono and legal aid attorneys who are accustomed to working with clients in difficult situations; they said the sorrow they witnessed at these facilities was on a wholly different level.
Your State Bar of Texas exists, in part, to aid the courts in carrying on and improving the administration of justice and to advance the quality of legal services to the public. In that spirit, the State Bar is compiling a list of volunteer trainings and opportunities at texasbar.com/volunteer for those who would like to get involved in reuniting children with their parents.
By far, the greatest need is for Spanish-speaking immigration attorneys to volunteer their time at the border. Many organizations are also seeking monetary donations. The State Bar will continually update the volunteer webpage as resources and information develop.
In my presidential inaugural address last Friday in Houston, I said we are uniquely equipped to address the problems vexing our nationincluding the current family separation crisis. This is not about politics. Its about access to justice. The people involved in this crisis may not be citizens, but they are still entitled to due process in a land that values the rule of law.
Sincerely,
Joe K. Longley
President, State Bar of Texas
This week I traveled to the border to learn how we can promote access to justice and the rule of law related to the separation of immigrant families. I met with a number of dedicated attorneys and organizations that are working long hours and pouring all of their energies into ensuring that children and parents are reunited and that legal rights are protected through due process of law.
Im saddened to report that many children are still separated from their parents. Attorneys who visited an adult detention facility recounted women sobbing immediately upon being asked whether their children had been taken away. Others described struggling to explain legal rights to detained children whose sole desire was to be back with their parents. These accounts are from pro bono and legal aid attorneys who are accustomed to working with clients in difficult situations; they said the sorrow they witnessed at these facilities was on a wholly different level.
Your State Bar of Texas exists, in part, to aid the courts in carrying on and improving the administration of justice and to advance the quality of legal services to the public. In that spirit, the State Bar is compiling a list of volunteer trainings and opportunities at texasbar.com/volunteer for those who would like to get involved in reuniting children with their parents.
By far, the greatest need is for Spanish-speaking immigration attorneys to volunteer their time at the border. Many organizations are also seeking monetary donations. The State Bar will continually update the volunteer webpage as resources and information develop.
In my presidential inaugural address last Friday in Houston, I said we are uniquely equipped to address the problems vexing our nationincluding the current family separation crisis. This is not about politics. Its about access to justice. The people involved in this crisis may not be citizens, but they are still entitled to due process in a land that values the rule of law.
Sincerely,
Joe K. Longley
President, State Bar of Texas
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you can get an "immigrants are us" or "we are all immigrants" shirt and wear it
EndGOPPropaganda
Jun 2018
#17
There was a post yesterday about donating to a collection of groups via ActBlue:
NBachers
Jun 2018
#28
I also donated to Act Blue for the groups to support keeping refugee families together.
iluvtennis
Jun 2018
#35
That is wonderful...I heard on MSNBC that repulsive GOP judges who must be impeached when we
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#14
Here's a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their f
Gothmog
Jun 2018
#40
This is from an editor of the Houston Chronicle who is a high school classmate of my son
Gothmog
Jun 2018
#49
A great example of civil society mobilizing to put a check on Trump's latest abuses
Gothmog
Jun 2018
#48