Support Safe Passage Project
Professor Lenni Benson is seeking to raise $10,000 to support Safe Passage Project, the nonprofit and law school pro bono project she established at New York Law School. It now aiding over 560 children with active cases.
Each year thousands of children have been apprehended by U.S. immigration officials while entering the United States unlawfully. In 2014 more than 63,000 have immigrated into the United States. Many of these children are unaccompanied and are seeking refuge from abuse and maltreatment. Others come to the U.S. with parents or family members who are unable or unwilling to care for them. Because the immigration process is a civil system, aliens in the U.S. are not entitled to legal counsel at government expense. As a result, many immigrant children face a complex system on their own.
The Safe Passage Immigration Project, a division of the Justice Action Center at New York Law School, works with volunteer attorneys and New York Law School students to provide representation of unaccompanied minors in the immigration process. Safe Passage provides training, resources, and mentoring to volunteer attorneys regarding Special Immigrant Juvenile (“SIJ”) status as well as other possible immigration alternatives for children.
Please consider making a small donation. Click here to help.
If you are in the New York area, please come walk with Lenni Benson on June 17. Click here for more information.
KJ