Mother Jones: First Trump Came for Immigrants. Then He Came for Their Lawyers.
Mother Jones reports on the growing pressures facing nonprofit immigration legal services organizations, including funding disruptions, staffing challenges, and increased demand for representation. AILA members Lindsay Toczylowski, Georgianna Pisano Goetz, Cooper Richardson, Roxana Avila-Cimpeanu, and Melissa Lopez are featured throughout the article, with Avila-Cimpeanu describing proposed changes to the Unaccompanied Children Program as “monumental” and Lopez emphasizing her organization’s commitment to its clients: “We have an ethical, legal, and moral obligation to continue representing these children, and with or without money from the federal government, we must do that.”