Women dominate immigration law
Along with stories of immigrants and refugees being stranded at airports across the US following Donald Trump's executive order on immigration last Friday, came images of lawyers sitting on terminal floors poring over their laptops, trying to help those in the legal limbo. According to lawyers Quartz spoke to in Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Dallas, many, if not most, who rushed to volunteer were women.
Sarah Owings, an immigration attorney and the chapter chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) for Georgia and Alabama, says she was the first person from various legal and humanitarian organizations to arrive at the Atlanta airport on Saturday, when 11 permanent residents from the countries covered by the ban were being detained and questioned.
She put out a call on her organizationâs listserv saying âIâm going to the airport, who is coming with me?â and immediately got affirmative responses from a number of women. âWhen the hammer dropped on us all, women answered the call,â Owings said. More men appeared on the second day, but throughout the ordeal âI would say women dominated,â she said.
There could be several reasons for this. First, it appears that immigration law attracts more women than men. According to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), women accounted for fewer than 34% of all US lawyers in 2016, but data from AILA shows that women make up the majority of their members. Out of 8,052 AILA members who reported their gender, 57% were women and 42% were men...
Read full story at https://qz.com/900416/most-immigration-lawyers-are-women-and-they-are-helping-stranded-immigrants-and-refugees-at-us-airports/
The information provided on this site is for general information purposes only. Nothing on this or associated pages, documents, comments, answers, emails, or other communications should be taken as legal advice. Information provided does not constitute a lawyer referral service, and no attorney-client or confidential relationship is or should be formed by use of the site. The attorney listings on the site are paid and unsolicited attorney advertisements.