A movement in the New York legal community to increase pro bono representation of indigent immigrants and weed out incompetent or unscrupulous lawyers who prey on them is gathering momentum. A group of some 40 to 50 lawyers has been meeting regularly to analyze what is widely regarded as a broken system, where many indigent immigrants lack the information and advice they need about asylum applications and other immigration procedures.

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Lawyers Target ‘Assembly Line’ Practice, Abuse of Poor Immigrants

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