| The Fate of Unaccompanied Minors Coming to the U.S. – Lindsay Toczylowski from Immigrant Defenders Law Center |
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Join Clark Hill’s Angeline Chen, a leading immigration attorney, in discussing the impacts of US immigration law and policy. On Immigration Today!, Angeline interviews leaders, experts, advocates, and volunteers in immigration and immigrant rights on the issues, their experiences, and their advice on how YOU can make a difference.
On this episode, Angeline interviews Lindsay Toczylowski, Executive Director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, an organization founded by a dedicated group of advocates and activists interested in creating an organization on the vanguard of the movement for a public defender system for immigrants facing deportation. They are fighting back every day against the immigration system's campaign of cruelty against migrants at the border with a focus on assisting children and families. Lindsay is a social entrepreneur whose work to increase access to justice for immigrants is at the forefront of the movement for universal representation. Lindsay also served as the Overseas Operations Director at Asylum Access, an international nonprofit that fights for the rights of refugees in the global South. She was recently named one of California’s Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers by the Daily Journal. Lindsay is the proud mother of two revolutionaries-in-training, and they are her inspiration to keep fighting for social justice every day.
Lindsay describes her experience defending kids in foster care and how that funneled her into providing legal representation for immigrant children. Her work is unique as she was one of the first attorneys in the Los Angeles area exclusively representing unaccompanied minors. This eventually paved the road in founding Immigrant Defenders Law Center. They are strong believers that no child should be forced to face an unjust immigration system alone. |
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| “I have literally sat in court and watched a crying infant who was the only defendant in their deportation case be held by a social worker that works for the government…A crying baby can be a defendant who is expected to represent themselves.” - Lindsay Toczylowski |
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| If you are interested in learning more about the Immigrant Defenders Law Center please check out their website and consider making a donation. Give them a follow on social media: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn! |
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