Emily Robinson’s phone has been ringing incessantly since Sept. 5, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the repeal of DACA—the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects certain undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children from deportation.
Robinson, the co-director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has been fielding calls from DACA clients desperate for legal help. In response, the clinic on Saturday is hosting a daylong DACA renewal session where is expects to assist more than 100 people with DACA paperwork. The Mexican consulate will be on hand and has said it will cover the $495 filing fee for each Mexican citizen who renews at the clinic. The clinic also has committed to taking those 100 people on as clients should they need additional immigration assistance.
