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Albany Law School has announced that it will launch a new immigration law clinic to provide free legal help for immigrants in cases of domestic violence, protection of minors, deportation, detention and U-Visa applications.

“Although we are a nation of immigrants, today’s immigration system is in an unprecedented state of disarray,” Sarah Rogerson, an Albany law professor who will direct the clinic, said in a news release. “This new clinic will give our students the opportunity to provide compassionate legal service to people who really need it.”

The clinic will begin taking cases in the fall.

Also this month, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center announced that its immigration law clinic has received a grant to take on additional cases involving unaccompanied minors.

Touro, which has operated its immigration law clinic since last fall, announced on April 1 that it received $100,000 from the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, a church congregation that provides funding to outside agencies that address the “root of social problems.”

William Brooks, a Touro law professor who directs the school’s program, said the grant would allow the clinic to hire a staff attorney to assist with its growing caseload.

Other New York law schools offering immigration clinics include Brooklyn Law School, University at Buffalo Law School, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the City University of New York School of Law, Columbia Law School, Fordham University School of Law, Hofstra University School of Law, New York Law School, New York University School of Law, Pace Law School and St. John’s University School of Law.

Cornell Law School’s immigration law clinic focuses exclusively on appellate immigration cases.