Advocates for Immigrant Rights, a nonprofit law firm based in Memphis, is working with religious leaders to set up an immigration court watch program. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
As federal prosecutors push harder for swift deportations and accounts of immigration officers arresting people at court hearings circulate, a Memphis-based legal nonprofit and clergy members are working together to ensure these events don’t go unwitnessed.
Advocates for Immigrant Rights (AIR) is in the early stages of building what the law firm hopes will become a robust immigration court watch program run with clergy volunteers, Executive Director Casey Bryant said…