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Find datasets to measure effect of having a lawyer on the chance of being deported #3

Open yjkogan opened 7 years ago

yjkogan commented 7 years ago

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New York recently started providing free lawyers to people facing deportation proceedings. Specifically the Bronx and Brooklyn defenders are part of the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project. Apparently a major contributor to this decision was data showing that people who didn't have a lawyer were way more likely to be deported, so the city decided to provide lawyers in order to level the playing field. If there are datasets out there in order to do this kind of analysis for other places, that seems like it would be really useful!

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ghost commented 7 years ago

The legal paper included analysis on other cities as well. You can download a copy of the paper here: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/access-counsel-immigration-court

yjkogan commented 7 years ago

This is great! I will definitely take a look when I have time :D.

yjkogan commented 7 years ago

Here are all the links I have. Forgot to post them a while back

https://www.vera.org/blog/new-york-immigrant-family-unity-project-lays-groundwork-for-constitutional-victory http://www.bronxdefenders.org/programs/new-york-immigrant-family-unity-project/ http://bds.org/#about (Doesn't mention NYIFUP specifically, but it's part of their Immigration Unit).

yjkogan commented 7 years ago

So I asked the same friend for some pointers to Chicago groups doing the same thing and he pointed we to this article, which mentions the Chicago Immigration Court Working Group.

He also pointed me to the fact that this is also a plank of Alderman Carlos Rosa's city plan.

I think a good place to start would probably be to get in touch with these groups and just see what we can do to help :).

danielgoldberg02 commented 7 years ago

Here's a compilation of research (primary source interviews, reports, etc.) that I did about this topic, in case anybody wants to pick it up.

In addition, it was suggested to me that we reach out to Bob Glaves at the Chicago Bar Foundation and Lawrence Benito at ICIRR. Has anybody worked with / know them?