OpEd: Albany a compassionate leader for immigrants' rights

Two years ago, in the visitation room at the Albany County jail, I felt like an air traffic controller. I directed volunteer attorneys, interpreters, and jailed asylum seekers around the large, fluorescent-lit room, shoes squeaking across linoleum floors, teaming up those waiting for help. I've been an immigration attorney for 15 years, but this was a new experience for me.

We were in the midst of a crisis locally and nationally: the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy forced the detention of thousands of migrants seeking protection, many of whom had been brutally separated from their small children. To make room at facilities by the border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent nearly 400 migrants to the Albany County Correctional Facility.

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