Sara Van

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@ExpressLanes I am trying to call your number but it is not in service. Is there another way to receive assistance on my account?

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@UFWupdates Thank you for sharing the videos and to those who grow and harvest the food we eat.

[gene @gene_lasecki]

@chevrolet Dude😞 you need suicide door's on the back so you can store the chair behind the driver's seat

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@ronlieber My final loans were forgiven yesterday! Public Interest lawyer working with immigrant kids.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

This! I’ve practiced in front of some immigration judges who were so hostile that my goal was for the judge to yell at me instead of my client.

[White House 46 Intergovernmental Affairs Archived @WhiteHouseIGA46]

I am deeply proud to work alongside these Latino leaders, who are working to deliver for the American people and improve the lives of working families across the U.S. #HispanicHeritageMonth

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

Thank you @RepJimmyGomez for meeting w/us & @EndSIJSBacklog Coalition to discuss pathways to justice for immigrant youth. Will you lead w/us to #EndSIJSBacklog? @PublicCounsel @door_nyc @BetTzedek

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

heartbreaking

[Katie Rogers @katierogers]

“My dying words will always be, as it has been, ‘I am an innocent man.'" https://t.co/cIAglBdGoe

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@egonz15 So much of my job as an immigration attorney furthers really unjust and racist systems and I think I - and our whole practice -- really need to grapple with our complicity in racism and xenophobia even as we zealously represent our clients

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@egonz15 Think of the clients I've encouraged to report crimes to help their cases. Or declarations where I have clients discuss police corruption in their home country compared to the US. Or when I've said they have to show remorse for arrests when they were victims of racial profiling.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@JennieTetreault We need to keep children safe but that doesn’t mean we separate kids from non-parent family members (as is routinely done). Also, Carrizo is unlicensed. ORR had years to increase licensed facilities but hasn’t. If ORR must detain kids, at least send them to licensed shelters.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

Yes, this! There are so many steps the Biden administration could take to reduce the need for emergency facilities. Many of my child-clients have been unnecessarily separated from non-parent relatives. Let’s release family units together not create more UCs.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@CourtWatchLA @LASuperiorCourt If anyone knows of an effort to support his family, I’d love to contribute.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

I’ve worked with Policarpo as an interpreter many times. He was so kind and great with our child-clients. This is a huge loss.

[Court Watch Los Angeles @CourtWatchLA]

Policarpo Chaj, K’iche Court interpreter at @LASuperiorCourt has passed away due to COVID-19. There are no words to describe the tragedy of yet another loss of an LASC employee. 1/3

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@ReichlinMelnick Interesting. I'm not sure. Other than the client being a UC, it fits the bill of the case flow system, but maybe they've decided to just informally issue similar orders to UCs? I'm going to argue that the scheduling order shouldn't apply to my client because she's a UC.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@ReichlinMelnick I'm not sure I understand the difference or how to tell? The child has appeared in court before pro se and this would be her first appearance with counsel. And interestingly, it's out of the UC docket on the Van Nuys Immigration Court in Los Angeles.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@ReichlinMelnick And I just got my first scheduling order today - and for an unaccompanied child no less. So I guess I will get a chance to file that motion now. Sigh.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@ReichlinMelnick It's so ridiculous. I contest service of the NTA and removability in the majority of my cases. And I refuse to even discuss relief until the court has decided those issues.

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@MatthewHoppock This was very helpful (and infuriating!). Thank you!

[Sara Van @saralynnvan]

@silvananaguib It's just outrageous! My teenage client, her newborn and I were forced to go in person to immigration court after the judge denied our motion to let the client appear telephonic ally. Do you know who was not in the courtroom with us? The judge, who appeared via video.