WCPO.com /May 14, 2018
CINCINNATI — A new initiative based out of a K-8 school is providing free legal help to some of Cincinnati Public Schools’ most vulnerable families: Immigrants and refugees..
The Roberts Padeia community comprises migrant families from Africa, Europe and the Spanish-speaking world in addition to those who are native United States citizens. Diversity makes the school a “unique and special place,” Fernandez said, but it also provides an acute look at the hardship non-native students and their families can face in the United States.
Much of that hardship is legal, Immigrant and Refugee Law Center executive director Julie Lemaster said.
“I think for any of us, the legal system is one of the most difficult things to deal with and the scariest to deal with,” she said.