Rekha Nair, a first-generation immigrant who grew up in Mesa, Arizona, will discuss issues related to asylum seekers in Arizona that will include their reasons for fleeing to seek asylum in the United States and the systems that affect them once they arrive.

 

 

Because the government does not provide attorneys for people in immigration removal proceedings, an estimated 86 percent of the detained people go unrepresented due to poverty. Detained immigrants facing deportation in the U.S. do not have the right to a public defender. Without representation, many will lose their case and be sent back to the conditions they are fleeing. To some, this is a death sentence. It is the mission of the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project to provide free legal and social services to detained adults and unaccompanied children facing immigration removal proceedings in Arizona.

Join us as Rekha Nair, the Phoenix Legal Action Network Lead attorney at the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, discusses the need for quality, free legal services for low-income, immigrants and refugees through stories about the journeys of asylum seekers.

You can visit the Florence Project’s website for a documentary story project at this link: https://firrp.org/

You will also find some of their client stories here: https://firrp.org/client-stories/

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* If you would like to donate to the Phoenix Legal Action Network, you may do so online at https://planphx.org/. Checks made out to Phoenix Legal Action Network or cash will also be accepted at the Humanist Center before or after Ms. Nair's presentation.


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When
July 14th, 2019 from  7:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location
ONLINE
Mesa, AZ 85211
United States
Human