Tag: Immigration
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Daniel Clark of Rising for Justice Receives the 2019 Scoutt Prize
Our very own, Daniel M. Clark, received the 2019 Scoutt Prize on last Thursday, October 10. Awarded by the District of Columbia Bar Foundation (DCBF), the Scoutt Prize is awarded annually to an attorney who has worked for a significant portion of his or her career at a nonprofit organization providing direct, hands-on legal services…
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Celebration of Service Marks 50 Years of Rising for Justice
Event Honored Brian Ellis, General Counsel of Danaher and featured Karl Racine, Attorney General of the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C., September 30th, 2019 – Over 400 leaders of the D.C. legal community gathered last Tuesday for Rising for Justice’s 2019 Celebration of Service, the largest and most successful event in the organization’s fifty year history.…
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After Mississippi: Why Immigration Defense Programs Matter
Written by Zain Murdock In Morton, Mississippi, earlier this month, 680 undocumented immigrants were detained at their place of work. Children came home from school to empty houses. Some parents were immediately carted off to ICE detention. Others were released with ankle monitors, marking them as criminals. The horrors endured that day by hundreds of…