Support Yale Law Volunteers Advocating for Asylum Seekers
In the spring of 2016 four Yale law students founded an organization to respond to the unmet legal needs of Central American refugee families fleeing…
January 18, 2018 at 03:59 PM
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In the spring of 2016 four Yale law students founded an organization to respond to the unmet legal needs of Central American refugee families fleeing gang violence in their home countries and detained in remote U.S. border detention facilities in the Southwest. The project began as a volunteer effort by law students to assist women and children detained in those facilities without access to legal assistance.
Since its founding, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) law students, assisted by volunteer pro bono lawyers, have provided legal representation to hundreds of detained women and children in Immigration Court hearings remotely in televised hearings, and have prevailed in the majority of those cases in reversing deportation orders by immigration officers and immigration judges. This record stands in striking contrast to the very low rate of success achieved by self-represented refugees, reportedly 2 percent.
Law students working with ASAP have achieved these stunning results by recruiting hundreds of volunteers, emergency filings, conferring with and collecting evidence from difficult-to-access clients in detention centers, and through cellphone conferences with the assistance of indigenous language interpreters.
After graduating from Yale Law School the four women who founded ASAP secured funding for their efforts through postgraduate fellowships and private contributions which have enabled them to convert the project to a nonprofit organization. The former law students, now public-interest lawyers, found a home at the Urban Justice Center in New York City.
The ongoing refugee crisis affecting detained women and children from Central America continues to grow. Additional funding is necessary to enable ASAP to expand its services to these refugees and to extend their work to other detention facilities. We urge members of the bar to support the work of ASAP through financial contributions and offers of pro bono assistance. Search for the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project at Yale online or visit asylumadvocacy.org.
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