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| tags: | #Arizona, #unaccompanied immigrant children, #detained immigrants, #Southern border, #United States of America, #The Florence Project, #legal service, #Immigration Detention Centre |
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| located: | USA |
| by: | Deniz Zehra Tavli |
Immigration judge John J. McCarrick recognized the gap in representation left by the absence of a public defender system in immigration removal proceedings—a gap that in his view threatens the statutory and constitutional rights of detained indigent immigrants. With the aim of publicly urging Arizona attorneys to fill this gap, the Florence Project was created in 1989.
Today, the Florence Project is dedicated to providing free legal services to the more than 3,000 people detained on any given day in remote detention facilities in Florence and Eloy and children’s shelters in Phoenix. The Project also participates in local and national advocacy and outreach initiatives to amplify the voice of immigrant detainees.
The vision of the Florence Project is to ensure that all immigrants facing removal have access to counsel, understand their rights under the law, and are treated fairly and humanely.
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