QUESTION
Are attorneys from for-profit organizations receiving payments for application assistance?
1:52:18
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33 sec
Interim Director Molly Schaeffer confirms that some for-profit attorneys are paid and discusses university engagements in asylum application assistance.
- Some attorneys are doing pro bono work, while others are receiving payments.
- A panel reviews applications for immigration attorneys, some of whom may own law firms.
- Council Member Avilés requests a breakdown of payments to understand the financial aspects better.
Alexa Avilés
1:52:18
And are any are many of these attorneys from 4 profit organizations are being paid?
1:52:27
Or is
Molly Schaeffer
1:52:28
so, obviously, their folks doing pro bono, but we are paying some of the immigration attorneys.
1:52:36
Some of them might have their own law firms.
1:52:40
But we have a panel of people who reviews each applications especially for the immigration attorney.
Alexa Avilés
1:52:46
Got it.
1:52:48
I guess if you could provide the breakdown for us, that would be helpful.
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