Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court

Journalist Gabriel Thompson interviewed SJC's founders Emily Abraham and Gautam Jagannath for a feature in Longreads about the reality of immigration court proceedings in the United States.

The article provides an in-depth look at the challenges facing immigration attorneys and their clients, from massive case backlogs to the emotional toll of representing families facing deportation. Abraham and Jagannath shared their experiences from nearly a decade of practicing immigration law in the Bay Area.

"Every day in immigration court, you see the human cost of a broken system," said Gautam Jagannath. "Families who have been in the country for years, children who have never known another home, they're all fighting for the right to stay."

The article highlighted the San Francisco Immigration Court's massive backlog of cases and the critical shortage of affordable legal representation for immigrants in removal proceedings.