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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Earlier this year, ProBAR attorneys learned that a number of their recent unaccompanied children clients were scheduled for asylum interviews. The two clients, a girl from Honduras and a boy from Egypt who both arrived unaccompanied to the U.S. in 2024, were not expected to have their interviews for at least a year.
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With 35 years of dedication to pro bono service, ProBAR is a place where legal experts and advocates can share their knowledge, time, and resources to accompany and empower children, adults and families at a critical moment in their migration journey at the border.
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In 2006, Erick and Brisely were young teenagers who arrived separately as unaccompanied children at an Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelter in South Texas, fleeing dangerous situations in their home countries.
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In April of 2019, Andres Jose Andres and his one-year-old son Tommy fled from Guatemala and traveled to the United States, a journey which required endurance and strength.
