Professor Cooper tells Associated Press about 'inhumanity' at Texas detention facility

Professor Holly Cooper, co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic, spoke to the Associated Press for a story headlined “Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids.” Cooper had visited the border facility in question, near El Paso, with other attorneys, and said, “In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention, I have never heard of this level of inhumanity.” Read the story: https://bit.ly/2KBvZqf

A few days after the Associated Press published the story, Newsweek cited Cooper's comments in a story about First Lady Melania Trump's announcement of new "Be Best" ambassadors to help "improve the lives of children" as part of her larger program aimed at children. This announcement "came at the same time as the Trump administration continues to receive heavy criticism for the conditions that migrant children face in border detention facilities," the article pointed out. Read the Newsweek story: https://bit.ly/2X0IAF8

Holly S. Cooper ’98 has extensive litigation experience defending the rights of immigrants and is a nationally recognized expert on immigration detention issues and on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.