Immigration
Dec. 22, 2017
Akin Gump lawyers counsel refugees in Texas
A pair of Los Angeles-based Akin Gump associates recently returned from a pro bono assignment assisting refugees in southern Texas.
From left, Rachel A. Ramos and Nicholas H. Scott of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. The associates prepared refugee women for their credible fear interviews at a Texas detention facility last month.
Attorneys who’ve worked with refugees at the Karnes County Residential Center describe the southern Texas facility as a jail for women and children.
“From the front, it looks like it could be an extended care facility,” explained Rachel A. Ramos, an Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP associate who spent several days at the Karnes facility in November. “But when you drive behind the building, all the barbed wire and the guard ...
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