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Maryland Legal Community Looks For Attorneys For Undocumented Immigrant Children
This summer, tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant children fled poverty and brutal gang violence in Central America to come to the U.S. Over three thousand are in Maryland, and the vast majority of those are [...]
Representing Unaccompanied Minors
It’s been a year since news reports started covering the large numbers of children crossing the U.S. border from Central American countries. It’s estimated that more than 55,000 unaccompanied minors have crossed the border since [...]
Villa Maria offers Exceptional Services for Exceptional Students
This story is published with the permission of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. Written by Deb Litman, with photography by Andrea Cipriani-Mecchi. To read this and other articles published by the Sisters of St. [...]
Williams Guevara Martinez, unaccompanied minor, reunited with his siblings in Baltimore
His two-year saga September 10, 2014 The story on ABC2’s In Focus (their 6:00 p.m. news program) features Williams Guevara Martinez, who crossed the U.S. border two years ago as an unaccompanied minor and eventually was reunited with [...]
A Pathway To Citizenship For One Unaccompanied Minor
Last September, Williams Guevara left behind his family’s cramped two-bedroom home near San Salvador to travel hundreds of miles by foot, by car, and in packed mini-busses to get to the US. He was 17. [...]
For immigrants, legal advice, English class and hope
Dan Rodericks, Baltimore Sun August 2, 2014 Jermin Laviera, an energetic woman with a bright and generous smile, works on the first floor of the Esperanza Center in Southeast Baltimore, which gives her a street-level perspective on [...]