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The campaign for attorneys to do more to provide representation for migrants has continued for several decades. In fact, when I took on my first
asylum case in the early 1990s, it was in response to a call from Human Rights First (then the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights). But the number of lawyers taking on pro bono immigration cases remained rather insignificant for years. Records obtained from EOIR by the Transactional
Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that
in 2000, just 55 court cases were recorded as completed with pro bono representation. Ten years later, in 2010, this had grown nationwide to just
149 cases. Amid the growing workload of the court during this period, the percent of noncitizens securing pro bono assistance remained a minuscule
fraction of just over 5 out of every 10,000 cases.....[Citing TRAC data and reports].
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