Immigration Law Society

In 2018, with immigration and asylum issues making headlines on a daily basis, about a dozen Chicago-Kent students from the Immigration Law Society spent their spring break providing pro bono legal services, supervised by alumna Samantha Lloyd ’13, at the South Texas Family Residential Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. The Dilley facility, located 80 miles from San Antonio, is the nation’s largest immigrant detention center and has the capacity to hold 2,600 migrant women and children seeking asylum in the United States.

Winter 2019 Trip

Given the success of the 2018 trip and the amount of work students did, before, during, and after their time in Dilley, Chicago-Kent is offering the experience again in January 2019, this time as a formal two-credit class that will count towards the law school’s Praxis Certificate.

Another group of students (about half of whom are making the trip for the first time) will travel to Dilley with Ms. Lloyd from January 12 to 19: