Getting people released — on bond or parole — is a key part of the collaborative. Outside of detention, it’s far easier for asylum seekers to access legal services.
Mallory Falk / KERA News
At the EPIC office in El Paso, volunteers type up the information they gathered during legal screenings at an immigration detention center.
From KERA:
The Otero County Processing Center is a squat, beige facility surrounded by desert, about 30 minutes outside El Paso, in Chaparral, New Mexico. Last fall, a group of volunteers drove out to the site, to meet with some of the asylum seekers detained there.
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