A U.S. Border Patrol truck enters the Port Isabel Detention Center near Los Fresnos, Texas,, which holds detainees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on June 26, 2018. Photo: David J. Phillip/AP
A group of Big Law attorneys are back in New York and Washington, D.C., after a weeklong trip to Texas to represent men in asylum cases in an immigration detention center.
The eight lawyers from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson were volunteering with the American Bar Association’s Harlingen-based South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project, or ProBAR, to represent clients in the Port Isabel Service Processing Center near Los Fresnos. A group of more than 80 lawyers and support staff assisted their efforts remotely from the firm’s offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and London.
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