Safe Passage Project

Safe Passage Project provides free lawyers to child refugees who are being deported. The company's mission is to ensure that every child in New York who is eligible for substantive immigration relief receives high-quality legal representation. The company believes that no child should face the immigration process alone. Under existing U.S. law, mos... t immigrant youth have a path to legal status but, unlike in criminal court, in Immigration Court, the government does not provide defendants with attorneys if they cannot afford to pay. As a result, more than half of young people go through immigration proceedings without a lawyer. On their own, they have little chance of successfully navigating the company's complex immigration laws and 85% are ordered deported, according to data from Syracuse University's TRAC. When they have a Safe Passage attorney by their side, the statistics are reversed: the company win the company's cases more than 90% of the time. Right now, thousands of refugee children are facing deportation in New York Immigration Court without a lawyer to represent them. The company has a plan to bring that number down to zero.Read More