As I leave this position I feel a heaviness that the need of legal defense that I was filling won’t be there for people until the next IJC fellow starts in the fall. I remember my very first client broke down when I went to visit and do a consultation because they had written so
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many letters, and made so many calls, and no one had ever responded before. Everyone is deserving of defense. My goal from the start of this fellowship has been to expand this work and I will keep on fighting and advocating for the county, and ultimately the state of Nevada to
fund pro bono attorneys for Nevadans that ICE is trying to rip apart from our community. That is, until either the federal government steps up to fund this work or we all realize as a society how to actually welcome people seeking refuge with dignity. #AbolishICE
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