In August and September 2019, Lei Jiang Law Firm accepted six immigration bail cases and defended these clients in the Cleveland Immigration Court. These six clients were all Chinese women. They were detained by the USCIS in July 2019 when the FBI, Ohio Bureau of Investigation, and local police raided multiple illegal massage parlors. Police have not charged them with any wrongdoing. The police did not charge them with any wrongdoing.
These six women came from New York and worked at a local massage parlor. They were all Asians with limited financial resources and did not speak English. Some of the women did not have any money, so our law firm provided our legal services for free. ‘Even though our legal services were free, we provided them with our consistent standard of high-quality service. We visited them in prison many times to better understand their specific situation, collected information, provided advice, and called other social workers to give them the necessary assistance. Some of them said they were tricked into coming to Ohio. Therefore, we also hired professionals in human trafficking to help them.
In court, attorney Lei Jiang successfully won the minimum bail for each lady. Thanks to our efforts, all six women were released and reunited with their families. But our work didn’t stop there. We continued to help them by providing them with useful information, connecting them with non-profit victim protection organizations in New York, and more. We were very grateful we could help them when they were in a desperate situation.
It’s not easy being an immigration court lawyer these days. US laws change quickly, the current climate is anti-immigration, and the courts are rarely sympathetic to immigration cases. Although such bail cases are not within the main business scope of our law firm, we maintain our original intention – to help those in need, to speak out for the disadvantaged, and to hold ourselves to the highest standards.
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