Immigrants working with lawyers are ten times more likely to win their removal case. Black immigrants are at disproportionate risk and face particularly egregious conditions in ICE detention. The IRC is calling for all noncitizens to have access to a lawyer in immigration court, no matter their ability to pay. The emails started on October 8—a frantic chain among lawyers detailing how Cameroonian and Congolese immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) custody had been transferred to Prairieland Detention Center in Texas for imminent deportation. One of those deported was my client, a Congolese national named Philip. Philip was stuck in a nightmare. He had just spent eleven months detained by ICE. Afraid of catching COVID-19, his pleas to ICE were always the same: set me free or send me home.