Phones are ringing off the hook at law offices serving immigrants with shaky status.
By Patrick Clark | Bloomberg
Maggie Dunsmuir, an immigration lawyer in Newark, N.J., started getting emails from clients on Tuesday night, around the time the West Coast polls were closing. These aren’t the much-hyped liberals vowing to decamp for Canada. She walked into her office on Wednesday to a steady stream of phone calls from people anxious about the status of their cases after the election of Donald Trump—and the suddenly pressing possibility of deportation.
Marilyn Orbach-Rosenberg, who runs a single-attorney firm in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, was planning to take the day off but woke up to about 50 client emails and a note from her assistant suggesting she come to the office to field walk-in and telephone queries.
