Central New York Injury Lawyer to Give Free Legal Aid to Asylum Seekers on the Texas-Mexico border for the New Year.

Merry Christmas everyone!  Hope you all enjoy this holiday season.  Like most of you, I will be spending Christmas with family and friends.  But come the New Year, I will be spending a week with complete strangers.  Here’s my story: I will be a volunteer lawyer on a week-long assignment in an immigrant detention center near the Texas-Mexico border. I will be helping asylum seekers advance their claims. I will help them present evidence that they have a credible or reasonable fear of returning home because their safety or lives are threatened there. The fear cannot be simply economic. It has to be a fear of persecution based on their ethnicity, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. It’s not an easy claim to win.  As anyone who follows the news knows, our borders are now crowded with refugees, mostly from Central America.  Some politicians have painted these refugees as evil.  Although…

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