Last week, I had the privilege of traveling with ABA President-elect Barbara Howard to visit ProBAR, a long-standing ABA legal services program in Harlingen, Texas. President-elect Howard came away inspired by ProBAR staff and moved by the clients and advocates she met there.
News & Updates
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As Spring blooms, our team celebrates the resilience and strength we see in our clients. As we continue to fight to reunify children with their families, we bear witness to the costs of prolonged detention, the joy of families reunited, and the resilience of children. No one better embodies resilience than the children ProBAR serves.
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When you imagine ProBAR at work, you might picture our office or a courtroom; but for ProBAR’s Community Team – who primarily serves individuals who are not in detention – the workplace can change multiple times per month.
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Last Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that individuals who are detained by ICE and placed in deportation proceedings can no longer be released on bond while their case is pending. For nearly 30 years, bond has allowed…
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It was midnight when the calls to ProBAR staff began. Guatemalan children were being pulled from their beds in shelters across the state, rushed onto buses, and driven under the cover of darkness to a small border town airport in Harlingen, Texas. Deep into the Labor Day weekend, the U.S. government had launched a new effort to expeditiously return immigrant children—alone and terrified—back to Guatemala.
