News & Updates

  1. “Thank you for paying attention to me. Not everyone does it.” An Advocate’s Perspective on Serving Migrant Children at the Border

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    Hear from Senior Unaccompanied Child Legal Specialist Charlotte Weiss about a typical day in her work serving detained unaccompanied children and her perspective on the roles advocates should play.

  2. As the U.S. Government Finally Reunifies Some Families it Separated at the Border, We Must Carry Forth the Lessons Learned on Access to Counsel and Trauma-Informed Advocacy

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    ProBAR’s Briza Robles outlines actions taken by ProBAR to help advocate for families after a zero-tolerance policy left thousands of parents and children separated.

  3. An Era of Hope: The Wind-Down of the Migrant Protection Protocols

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    Lindsay Schenk, HIAS Border Fellow Attorney at ProBAR, experienced how the anguish of years of uncertainty in the “Remain in Mexico” program turned to hope as asylum-seekers were processed into the U.S. to continue their cases.

  4. ProBAR Receives State Bar of Texas Award

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    ProBAR Director Kimi Jackson and Director of Outreach Emily Joiner accepted a Presidential Citation on behalf of ProBAR at the State Bar of Texas’ annual meeting in Austin on June 12, 2019. ProBAR was recognized for its “outstanding service in providing access to justice to populations that cannot afford or do not have access to an attorney.”

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