The American Bar Association has put out a call to U.S. lawyers urging them to advocate for families separated at the southern border under the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance policy.”
ABA president Hilarie Bass traveled to the Port Isabel Detention Center in south Texas last month, where she spoke with 10 women who had been separated from their children. In a video posted online last week, Bass described the visit and directed lawyers to several volunteer opportunities via the ABA.
“I told these women, as they were sobbing in my company, that the lawyers of America would not rest until ...
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