NY State Bar Association honors volunteers who assisted ICE detainees
The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) honored 50 volunteers from the Detention Outreach Project on Monday afternoon for their work screening U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees who were brought to Albany in July.
That group successfully screen 300 asylum-seekers from 38 countries who were uprooted from the southern border during the largest known transfer of refugees from the border into a single facility.
“You have blown me away by all that you’re doing,” Associate Judge Leslie E. Stein of the NYS Court of Appeals told the volunteers. “Access to justice is the touchstone of our judicial system and without it our system of laws would be meaningless. Without people like you, access to justice would be no more than an ideal.”