Detainee Rights Clinic Client Wins Asylum Case One of the Detainee Rights Clinic’s Very First Clients Has Been Granted Asylum

Students in the Detainee Rights Clinic (DRC) recently scored a major victory for a client formerly from El Salvador who has been seeking asylum for nearly a decade.

The clinic began representing the person in 2014, one of its first clients. Clinic leaders secured the person’s release from detention to stay deportation. Over the next few years, students worked with faculty to win an appeal at the Board of Immigration that opened a pathway for asylum.

Two years ago, law students Haley Wallace ’23, rising 3L Nicole Carter, and rising 3L Anna Schlendl took on the task of preparing for a final immigration hearing, held this past March.

Read the full story in the digital edition of Minnesota Law magazine