Immigration,
State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 22, 2017
Bar programs help lawyers represent people in immigration court
A program coordinated by the Bar Association of San Francisco is helping to finance and coordinate attorneys for individuals in immigration court.
Tess Feldman of Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto advises immigrants facing deportation through the Bar Association of San Francisco’s volunteer Attorney of the Day program.
SAN FRANCISCO — At 11:00 a.m., a television screen turned on inside a downtown immigration courtroom. A man appeared on the screen dressed in a red jumpsuit, with close-cropped dark hair, wearing glasses over heavily lidded eyes.
His name is Brian Alexis Calderon Llanes, and he was being held by federal immigration authorities in Bakersfield, in danger of being deported.
Speaking to him by video te...
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