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Adelante Pro Bono Project

The Adelante Pro Bono Project provides students an opportunity to engage in substantive humanitarian immigration law and policy work with some of the most vulnerable populations, including asylum seekers at—and on the other side of—our southern border. Adelante’s current focus includes the “Remain in Mexico” policy that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while pursuing their asylum claims in U.S. immigration courts, the Title 42 emergency health order that has effectively closed the border to asylum seekers, and Family Separation. .

On February 23, 2021, Adelante released a report, Locked in Limbo: The Urgent Need to Fully Dismantle “Remain in Mexico” and Rapidly Process Vulnerable People into the United States. The report, authored by Adelante students Isabel M. Skilton (LAW ’22), Cassandra E. Baker (LAW ’22), Michelle Browne (Law ’22) and Director Haiyun Damon-Feng, highlights the stories of vulnerable families—including those with children suffering from epilepsy, cardiac conditions, vision loss and severe trauma following sexual assault in Mexico—who remain trapped in the cruel and inhumane conditions of “Remain in Mexico” despite the recent announcement of policies intended to wind down the program. The report urges the government to use readily available means to rapidly process people into the United States.