Children Archives - Benach Collopy

Client of the Month- May 2022- Lady!

May 2, 2022

Lady and her two boys! For our client of the month for May we have a perfect Client for Mother's Day! Here we celebrate a woman who did what mothers do best- protect her children...

Clients of the Month, May 2018: Marcelle de Lima and Luciano da Silva

May 3, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3148" align="aligncenter" width="495"] The de Lima/ da Silva family[/caption] Our May 2018 clients of the month are Marcelle de Lima and Luciano da Silva. Marcelle and Luciano are from Brazil and they came to...

What is the Caravan and what should U.S. immigration authorities do with it?

April 30, 2018

We have heard a lot about the "Caravan" of immigrants making its way north through Mexico from the Northern Triangle- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala- of Central America. Once numbering over 1200 people, the remaining...

Client of the Month- March 2018- Yovanny Soto

March 2, 2018

For March 2018, we want to highlight our clients, Yovanny Soto and Heidi Andrade, and their really cute kids. On February 7, 2018, Yovanny was admitted to the U.S. as a permanent resident after...

DACA: Some Venting and Some Solutions

September 11, 2017

Of all the stupid, dirty, slimy, no-good, treasonous, villainous, putrid, double-crossing treachery, low life, vengeful, mean-spirited, spiteful, nasty, pin-headed, pathetic, weak, ugly, traitorous, short-sighted, weak-kneed, unbecoming, dumb, awful, smelly, vile, cruel, vicious, unjustifiable, illogical, unfriendly,...

Clients of the Month February 2017- Karla and Anthony Duran

February 7, 2017

During these difficult times for our country, when the Trump Administration has suspended the refugee resettlement program and attempted to paint all refugees as terrorists and security threats, Benach Collopy has continued the fight for...

Remember the St. Louis

January 27, 2017

Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am thinking about the M.S. St. Louis. In 1939, while war waged in Europe, the M.S. St. Louis, a transatlantic ship carrying Jewish refugees fleeing the Third Reich, reached...

Client of the Month: January 2017 Danieca Bugarin

January 4, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2843" align="aligncenter" width="444"] Danieca Bugarin[/caption] Our January 2017 Client of the Month is part of our ongoing series of: "Dreamers that Trump can't touch!" Danieca Bugarin landed in San Francisco, CA on December 30, 2016,...

Client of the Month November 2016- Mariana Laredo

November 15, 2016

We are happy to announce Mariana Laredo as our Client of the Month for November 2016. In a week full of dread over the results of the Presidential election, Mariana provided a ray of sunshine. ...

About Adam Crapser and his Deportation

October 28, 2016

[caption id="attachment_2814" align="aligncenter" width="634"] Korean adoptee Adam Crapser, left, poses with daughters, Christal, 1, Christina, 5, and his wife, Anh Nguyen, in the family's living room in Vancouver, Wash. on March 19, 2015. Crapser, whose...

Clients of the Month- October 2016: 5 Child Refugees!

October 20, 2016

[caption id="attachment_1735" align="alignright" width="324"] Liana Montecinos[/caption] This post was written by Liana Montecinos. Thirsty, hungry, at the brink of exhaustion, and with fear of violent deaths looming large back home is how many Central American...

Waiting for DAPA: Is Today the Day the Supreme Court Rules?

June 20, 2016

[caption id="attachment_1029" align="aligncenter" width="275"] The Supreme Court is ready to rule on DAPA and expanded DACA soon.[/caption] Our eyes will be on the Supreme Court today to see if the Supreme Court will issue its...

GUEST BLOG: “More Than a Grade: How our Salvadoran Asylum Client Taught us What it Takes to be an Attorney” by Abdulmajeed Alhogbani, with contributions by Barrett Bles, Recent Graduates of the CUA Columbus School of Law

June 6, 2016

"Ok, I'd be willing to stipulate to humanitarian asylum." We were approximately 30 minutes into the recess the Immigration Judge took, during which we were supposed to negotiate a favorable solution for our client, when...

Dree Collopy on Central American Refugees and Asylum Law

February 12, 2016

Writing in today's Leadership Blog from the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Dree Collopy explains the fundamentals of asylum law the critics, journalists, and politicians fail to understand: Any refusal to recognize gender-motivated violence such as...

Fight Daesh by Embracing the Refugee

November 16, 2015

At Benach Collopy, we share the outrage over the terrorist massacre in Paris. We weep for the families who lives where turned inside out by a murderous death cult. As residents of another Western capital,...