Our legal aid team keeps getting overwhelmed by asylum cases and we can't keep up with the paperwork deadlines, but when I suggest we need to triage more aggressively, my colleagues act like I'm abandoning our mission. We're burning out trying to save everyone and I don't know how to have this conversation without sounding heartless.
More people experience this than they realize.
A team is struggling to balance their idealistic mission with practical limitations while maintaining their shared commitment to justice.
“Where Are You with Refugee and immigration justice?”
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