June 17 update: Legal aid and social work

Over the weekend, our legal team was on site at a detention center four hours from Omaha, meeting one-on-one with the workers who were arrested in last week’s immigration raid — the largest our city has seen in years. Of the 107 who were apprehended, 63 were transferred to a detention center in North Platte. For many, their first chance to speak with an attorney was nearly 96 hours after they were arrested last Tuesday, June 10. Most have still not been charged yet.