The Successes of the South Texas College of Law's Human Trafficking/Immigration Clinic
By: Steve Grumm
Here’s a nice piece in the Houston Chronicle about the clinic’s work with local immigrants and refugees who may feel trapped between extraordinary hardship both in the US and in their country of origin.
By 2011, the South Texas College of Law’s Human Trafficking Clinic had scored some major victories.
[Clinic director Naomi] Bang’s students had helped secure visas allowing 15 Vietnamese human trafficking victims to remain in the country. Second- and third-year law students were clamoring to get into the class, and a long waiting list developed for the 10 coveted spots.
That fall, three of those places went to Sheridan Green, a clean-cut father and husband from St. George, Utah; Jamie Lauren Morrison, a former eighth-grade teacher from suburban Cy-Fair; and Sharon Sulami, the Houston-raised daughter of Israeli immigrants.