The story of immigration binds the South Asian experience in the United States of America. As members of the bar obligated to ensure access to justice, members of the South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA) with support from the South Asian Bar Association of North America Foundation (SABA Foundation), provided pro bono legal services in November 2019 with the Immigration Justice Campaign's Dilley Pro Bono Project (DPBP) in Dilley, TX.
The Dilley Pro Bono Project is a group of dedicated immigration lawyers, paralegals and other professionals who run a non-traditional pro bono project of legal services at the South Texas Family Residential Center that directly represents immigrant mothers and children. Volunteers sign up for one-week shifts to help carry the immense caseload and rising demand for legal services at Dilley. The South Texas Family Residential Center is in effect a jail, a prison to house up to 2,400 women and children who are in expedited removal proceedings with orders signed by Customs & Border Protection. It is the largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the United States run by CoreCivic, the second-largest private corrections company in the country.