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.
News & Updates
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Showing Up, Bearing Witness: Volunteer Reflections from the PAPAs Project at San Antonio Immigration Court Volunteers getting ready for their participation at the Court Observation Project Last month, the ABA Commission on Immigration volunteered with the American Gateways Pro Se…
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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.
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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.
