Esq.
Dec. 1, 2011
Good Works: Mental Disabilities
Pro bono work on behalf of immigrant detainees with mental disabilities.
Jose Antonio Franco-Gonzalez, a 29-year-old Mexican citizen with the cognitive level of a 2-year-old, spent nearly five years locked in California detention facilities after his immigration case was closed because he was unrepresented and mentally incompetent.
As many as 19,000 immigration detainees reportedly suffer from serious mental illnesses and combat-related disabilities. Many of them face the same Kafkaesque predicament: Indigent and incompetent, they are unable to hire coun...
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