Obama Plan Leaves Child Migrants Adrift
Politico, August 11, 2015
Obama Plan Leaves Child Migrants Adrift
Given the lack of federal assistance, New York City has opted to commit its own funds in a public-private partnership with charitable groups…Danny Alicea, a young attorney with the big immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, works in tandem with the [New York City] council’s effort as part of a separate outreach program sponsored by the City Bar Justice Center, part of the New York City Bar Association. “One of the great things about having this fellowship at the City Bar Justice Center is that the city bar is the go-to place. I have the capacity to recruit hundreds of lawyers,” Alicea said. But as a practical matter, he says, children are still falling through the cracks — unable to find assistance. “Yes, the children are at least meeting with a lawyer and having a lot of their needs met by the service provider,” he said. “But there are so many children, I don’t think it’s possible at this point to say they all have a lawyer representing them.”
