Law Students Rush to Meet Needs In Booming Field of Immigration

Ann Kim made monthly trips this year to a Richmond area immigrant detention center, trying to free a mentally ill Honduran man. He ended up being deported, but Kim got something out of it: more experience in the burgeoning field of immigration law.

“Immigration is becoming more and more complex, and it’s going against immigrants rather than for them,” said Kim, 27, a second-generation Korean American who took the Honduran’s case as part of her immigration law clinic at American University’s Washington College of Law. “There’s a great need for lawyers.”"*

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