Cat Kim, a recent graduate from Columbia Law School, had two missions this summer. One was studying for and taking the California bar exam. The other was preparing cases for immigrant women and children in Texas detention centers who, without the help of people like her, could be deported.
After taking the bar in July, Kim planned a trip -- not to celebrate taking the test, like some of her peers -- but to volunteer her time at a family immigrant detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
"I'm sure my Facebook feed will be full of people in Europe or in Hawaii or the Caribbean or whatever come August," Kim said last month. "Me and my roommate from law school, we're taking our money and we're going to Texas to work 12 hours a day in a detention center."
Not that Kim's complaining; this will be her third trip to Texas. She's part of a massive effort by the legal community, including students and young lawyers, to offer free help to some of the tens of thousands of Central Americans seeking asylum in the U.S. Many of them end up in family detention in Dilley and Karnes City, Texas.
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