TU Legal Clinic raising money to help family flee Afghanistan

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TULSA, Okla. — As thousands effort to fly Afghanistan, 1 Afghan native, who is present a U.S. citizen, is asking for assistance getting his household retired of the country.

The University of Tulsa Legal Clinic is stepping successful to connection its services.

“It’s beauteous captious that they find a mode to get retired of the country," said Mimi Marton, manager of the Legal Clinic astatine the TU College of Law.

Marton said a erstwhile lawsuit from Afghanistan reached retired for help. He wants to get 19 of his household members retired of Afghanistan.

“Including the grandparents and the big children and spouses and respective small children," she said.

Because of information reasons, we couldn’t talk with the household subordinate stateside. Marton said immoderate recognition of him oregon his household poses a hazard to their safety.
Her client’s biggest interest is getting his household distant from the Taliban.

“It is not uncommon if they’re aft you they volition besides spell aft your family," Marton said. "And so, we person a batch of concerns astir the household members being a people astatine this point.”

Marton said the exertion to bring them implicit is $575 per person. So for this family, it volition outgo much than $10,000. The Legal Clinic started a fundraiser to assistance screen those costs. It’s besides moving with lawyers successful Tulsa and astir the country.

“This is simply a caller task for the session to bash thing connected this gangly of an order," Marton said. "But we consciousness assured due to the fact that we are linked successful with different attorneys who are besides doing this.”

If the household is capable to get retired and travel to the U.S., Marton isn’t definite yet wherever they would go. Wherever it is, it volition beryllium a hard transition.

“People don’t privation to permission their homes, their businesses, their lives, their different household members," Marton said. "This isn’t like, 'Yay I get to leave.' This is truly traumatic and tragic and truly hard for radical to springiness up their location and the beingness they cognize and the civilization that they cognize and travel to a unusual place.”

There isn’t a batch of clip to get the household retired of Afghanistan. If you'd similar to donate, you tin bash truthful here. When designating wherever your donation goes, prime "other" and benignant successful "TU Legal Clinic: The Afghanistan Evacuation Project."

You tin besides message a check. If you do, enactment that your publication is for “TU Legal Clinic: The Afghanistan Evacuation Project” and message the cheque to:

University of Tulsa
Attn: College of Law Development Office/ Westby Hall
Director of Development,
TU College of Law
800 South Tucker Drive
Tulsa, OK 74104

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