Pro bono attorneys gather at New York Law School for an asylum-law training session conducted by the Safe Passages Project.

Lenni Benson recognizes the parallels between her family’s history and the stories of her Safe Passage Project clients, child immigrants who must navigate a complex legal system to stay in the U.S. after a dangerous journey without their parents.
The youths, many of them from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, are part of a surge in juveniles seeking to cross the U.S. southwestern  border that has prompted calls from Congress for tighter patrols and more aggressive deportation. Continue reading →