{"id":1380794,"date":"2018-12-05T06:52:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/glenwood-springs-attorney-to-help-children-at-border-detention-facility\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T06:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:52:27","slug":"glenwood-springs-attorney-to-help-children-at-border-detention-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/glenwood-springs-attorney-to-help-children-at-border-detention-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood Springs attorney to help children at border detention facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Matthew Bennett<\/a><\/span> Attorney Claire Noone, who lives in Glenwood Springs, is headed to the Lone Star State Wednesday to provide legal assistance to children being held at a temporary detention facility in Tornillo, Texas.
\nNoone’s trip was made possible, largely, because of a GoFundMe page that the attorney set up. In two days, it had almost reached its fundraising goal of $1,500.
\n\u201cI went to law school in Denver, and I have always had a strong urge to help \u2026 the most vulnerable populations, and it just so happens that right now asylum seekers and people crossing the southern border of the United States are suffering extreme human rights violations on our watch,\u201d Noone said.
\n\u201cI truly believe that, as citizens of the United States, it is our responsibility to do everything in our power to protect people fleeing to us \u2014 fleeing violence, fleeing persecution, fleeing war \u2014 that it is our duty as citizens, not just the government, but as citizens to do everything we can.\u201d
\nIn August, Noone did similar work at a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, where mothers and children apprehended along the southern border were transported and housed.
\n\u201cAs noncitizens, they don’t have rights to attorney, and so a lot of them are in trauma, do not speak the language, are very scared and are up against a really complex asylum system, so a lot of them just get chewed up and spit right back out,\u201d Noone said of her previous experience. \u201cOn my own, in one week, I was able to get 100 mothers and their children out of detention.\u201d
\nEncouraged by the work she was able to accomplish in Dilley, when the 30-year-old, bilingual attorney was asked just a few days ago if she could travel to Tornillo to offer similar services, Noone immediately agreed.
\nHowever, while the detention center in Dilley held families, Tornillo’s \u201cTent City\u201d detains unaccompanied immigrant children apprehended at the border.
\n\u201cInitially, [Tornillo’s \u201cTent City\u201d] was only meant to be super temporary, a couple hundred children, and then when the policy ended, after much public criticism, instead of breaking down the tents \u2026 it has just grown and now, according to Health and Human Services, there is enough for 3,800 children to be housed there,\u201d Noone said of the facility.
\nLocated just southeast of El Paso, according to Noone, very little information about the \u201cTent City\u201d was known because of restrictive media access.
\nAccording to her GoFundMe page \u2014 Legal Aid to Unaccompanied Minor Tent City \u2014 Noone will work alongside other lawyers from all over the nation to complete client intake, deliver \u201cknow-your-rights\u201d presentations and provide preparation and accompaniment to immigration court.
\n\u201cThere, money directly goes to getting an educated, experienced legal person on the ground to provide legal services to about 20 children a day, and the more money I get the longer I will be able to remain,\u201d Noone said.
\n\u201cIt is not that I am trying to beat the system and get these kids to become U.S. citizens,\u201d she added. \u201cI am trying to just grease the …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attorney Claire Noone, who lives in Glenwood Springs, is headed to the Lone Star State Wednesday to provide legal assistance to children being held at a temporary detention facility in Tornillo, Texas.
\nNoone’s trip was made possible, largely, because of a GoFundMe page that the attorney set up. In two days, it had almost reached its fundraising goal of $1,500.
\n\u201cI went to law school in Denver, and I have always had a strong urge to help \u2026 the most vulnerable populations, and it just so happens that right now asylum seekers and people crossing the southern border of the United States are suffering extreme human rights violations on our watch,\u201d Noone said.
\n\u201cI truly believe that, as citizens of the United States, it is our responsibility to do everything in our power to protect people fleeing to us \u2014 fleeing violence, fleeing persecution, fleeing war \u2014 that it is our duty as citizens, not just the government, but as citizens to do everything we can.\u201d
\nIn August, Noone did similar work at a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, where mothers and children apprehended along the southern border were transported and housed.
\n\u201cAs noncitizens, they don’t have rights to attorney, and so a lot of them are in trauma, do not speak the language, are very scared and are up against a really complex asylum system, so a lot of them just get chewed up and spit right back out,\u201d Noone said of her previous experience. \u201cOn my own, in one week, I was able to get 100 mothers and their children out of detention.\u201d
\nEncouraged by the work she was able to accomplish in Dilley, when the 30-year-old, bilingual attorney was asked just a few days ago if she could travel to Tornillo to offer similar services, Noone immediately agreed.
\nHowever, while the detention center in Dilley held families, Tornillo’s \u201cTent City\u201d detains unaccompanied immigrant children apprehended at the border.
\n\u201cInitially, [Tornillo’s \u201cTent City\u201d] was only meant to be super temporary, a couple hundred children, and then when the policy ended, after much public criticism, instead of breaking down the tents \u2026 it has just grown and now, according to Health and Human Services, there is enough for 3,800 children to be housed there,\u201d Noone said of the facility.
\nLocated just southeast of El Paso, according to Noone, very little information about the \u201cTent City\u201d was known because of restrictive media access.
\nAccording to her GoFundMe page \u2014 Legal Aid to Unaccompanied Minor Tent City \u2014 Noone will work alongside other lawyers from all over the nation to complete client intake, deliver \u201cknow-your-rights\u201d presentations and provide preparation and accompaniment to immigration court.
\n\u201cThere, money directly goes to getting an educated, experienced legal person on the ground to provide legal services to about 20 children a day, and the more money I get the longer I will be able to remain,\u201d Noone said.
\n\u201cIt is not that I am trying to beat the system and get these kids to become U.S. citizens,\u201d she added. \u201cI am trying to just grease the …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1380794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 03:20:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}