Hayley Upshaw
Host: Legal Services for Children
Sponsor: The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Maria Alejandra Acevedo
- Hosted by Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
- Sponsored by AmeriCorps, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, U.S. Department of Justice
- Service location Westminister, Colorado
- Law school American University Washington College of Law
- Issue area Children/Youth, Immigrant Populations
- Fellowship class year 2016
- Program AmeriCorps Fellows Program, Design Your Own Fellowship
The Project
Represent unaccompanied children under the age of 18 years of age and younger in removal proceedings.
Children who journey by themselves to the U.S. are not provided public defenders when they are facing deportation back to the dangerous countries that they fled. The Justice AmeriCorps Program provides more of those children counsel in order to better their chances of staying.
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