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representation and mentoring attorneys. The organization has helped additional children through screening clinics and know your rights presentations. Safe Passage Project has mentored over 400 attorneys working with law student volunteers.
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As of 2019, Safe Passage Project has provided more than 800 immigrant children with full free legal representation, and has won 90% of their cases.
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as a section 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization. In 2016, the board named Rich Leimsider as the first paid Executive Director.
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Safe Passage Project was founded by Professor Lenni Benson, in 2006. In May 2013, Safe Passage Project was incorporated in the
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and Long Island under age 21. The Safe Passage Project attorneys represent immigrant children in
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organization that provides free lawyers to refugee and immigrant children in the
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Safe Passage Project has assisted more than 1,500 children by securing
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