Article: A 'Lawyer Caravan' Brings Legal Services to Upstate Immigrants

Sitting on the side of a country road, waiting for a young Guatemalan woman to emerge from a small clapboard house so that I could drive her to a local church, was not what I envisioned doing as a lawyer all those years ago in law school.

Yet last May there I was, deep in New York's North Country, doing just that. Behind the small house, which was so close to the road it didn't have room for a driveway, I could see cows lined up in their enclosures waiting to be milked. A few more houses and signs of farm life - tractors, barns, equipment - were grouped nearby. Fields stretched out all around me, with trees breaking up the landscape here and there. The only sound was the faint rustling of the animals, but even they were mostly silent. After days of rain, the ground was soaked through and the smell of wet grass was faint on the cooler-than-expected air.

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