A task force assembled to meet the needs of poor immigrants facing deportation last week introduced a model program for providing counsel to immigrants in removal proceedings.
The group and its report, “Accessing Justice II,” are the latest step in a five-year effort launched by Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who began in 2007 to rally the legal community to study the problems of immigrants in removal proceedings and advocate a legal services support network at a time when record numbers of immigrants are subject to deportation.
