ABA South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project

09/01/2026

This time last year, we were stopping planes. So many court battles, so many difficult changes, so much hard work. The lead Plaintiff in LGML v. Noem, the lawsuit at the heart of this horrific incident, is now safe and sound with her family in the US. This is what ProBAR does. This is what we stand for. Donate today and stand with us: https://abaprobar.org/donate

08/25/2026

This same week, ProBAR witnessed a 7-year-old child receive an order of Voluntary Departure from a judge at the Harlingen Immigration Court. The child, who had no attorney or Friend of Court present, was given 30 days to leave the United States before the judge's order would become an Order of Removal.

Countless vulnerable, unaccompanied children are being forced through a confusing system with no legal information and no one by their side. ProBAR is working to change that. Donate today: https://abaprobar.org/donate

08/20/2026

08/19/2026

08/13/2026

Many unaccompanied children have experienced abuse, abandonment, persecution, or other trauma before arriving in the U.S. By providing children with meaningful access to legal information, ProBAR helps them understand the process, identify potential forms of relief, and participate more effectively in their own cases.

Donate today to support ProBAR in the fight for children's rights: https://abaprobar.org/donate

08/06/2026

"Some of the children in the plane last year were represented by the American Bar Association’s ProBar project. Lauren Fisher Flores, the legal director, said children that day were seen “crying, praying, vomiting” and some entered into a catatonic state. The effects were long-lasting."

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A U.S. senator is warning of a Trump administration plan to remove over 500 children from the country, bypassing legal protections, in a letter sent to U.S.

08/06/2026

"Due to the loss of funding for children's immigration work, ProBAR laid off more than 20% of its staff this week..."

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Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday.

08/06/2026

Last June, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s Alejandra Palacios visited ProBAR for the ‘Last Line of Defense’ pro bono program. Listen to her experiences supporting ProBAR’s efforts to provide legal services to the RGV immigrant community and the importance of exposing college students to the immigration system.

Send us a message today to join ProBAR’s Last Line of Defense!

08/06/2026

As of July 31st, thousands of children in detention no longer have access to legal services paid for by funding from the ‘Unaccompanied Children Program’ (UCP).

Without UCP funding, organizations like ProBAR can no longer visit children in shelters to provide legal services such as Know-Your-Rights presentations, Legal Intakes, or even offer to represent them in court.

To prevent a gap in services, the ProBAR team has launched ‘Detention Orientation & Resources for Youth’ (DORY), a telephone hotline designed to provide children in detention with access to the legal support they urgently need.

Donate today to help thousands of unaccompanied children retain access to critical legal services: https://abaprobar.org/donate

08/05/2026

For the past two decades, ProBAR has provided trauma-informed legal services to unaccompanied children navigating complex immigration proceedings. In the last year, we've delivered nearly 400 Know Your Rights presentations and more than 700 legal screenings for detained children in South Texas. These services help children understand the immigration process and ensure they have meaningful access to justice.

Now that funding for these services has lapsed, ProBAR is need of support to ensure these critical services for children continue without interruption.

Donate today: https://abaprobar.org