Please consider the request below, Jilil Weiss Dear friends, ICE is again taking immigrants into custody in Pittsburgh – detaining them and deporting them leaving their families to wonder what happened and where they are. As a result, Casa has had to bring back its Attorney Rapid Response Team. I’m asking those of you who have an active license to practice law to volunteer. I volunteered during Trump I and found it to be deeply gratifying. While at ICE, I was always treated professionally. I have retired so no longer have an active license. I am asking those of you who don’t practice law to circulate this message to others in the hope that there will be volunteers for this important work. The process is straightforward: - Casa will ask you to volunteer on whatever days you can be on call in the upcoming month; - When Casa is notified that someone has been detained by ICE, the on-call volunteer attorney for that day goes down to ICE to find out specific information. ICE is on the Southside close to the IBEW hall; - Someone from Casa who speaks Spanish will meet you there; and - You’ll get the information – mainly the Alien Number. A draft of the Attorney Checklist is attached. This is *not* high-powered immigration attorney stuff. Anyone could get the information about the detained person, but ICE will only deal with an attorney. There is a short training session planned for this Sunday, February 16 at noon in Brookline. Location specifics will be given to those who plan to attend. Contact Jarrod at: jarrod@casasanjose.org *This is a critical role*. So many thanks for doing what you can do, Jane (Louik) One attachment • Scanned by Gmail