How an Army of Women Lawyers Formed to Protect Immigrants in the Trump Era

This weekend marks 12 months since the first Trump travel ban, an executive order that incited nationwide protests, spurred lawsuits, and drove hundreds of immigration attorneys to set up shop in airport terminals from New York to Los Angeles.

The crisis clinics were meant to help detainees in immediate distress. They offered legal services and translation assistance. The circumstances under which they were formed were so ad hoc, so frantic, so urgent. But with the volunteers—it was the opposite. They were calm. Sleepless, maybe, but prepared and thoughtful. So perhaps it's no surprise: most of them were women.

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