In a press release from the DOJ in February 2002 titled “Pro Bono Assistance Needed for Detained Individuals in South Florida,” Steven Lang, in his position as Coordinator of the Pro Bono Program at the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR)," requested that attorneys in South Florida step up and offer their legal expertise free of charge to migrants detained in immigration proceedings. This press release serves as an example of Lang’s job at DOJ – to connect migrants facing hearings before immigration judges with free legal representation:

“In a letter to legal organizations and immigration advocacy groups, Steven Lang, Coordinator of the Pro Bono Program at EOIR, stated that an unusually large number of individuals detained at Krome SPC and TGK Correctional Center are without legal representation at their immigration hearings. During the past 60 days, the Immigration Judges have continued the hearings of those aliens who have requested additional time to seek legal representation in addition to providing them with a list of free legal service providers. However, many detainees remain without legal representation.

EOIR is asking that attorneys in South Florida consider representing one or more of these detained individuals. EOIR is committed to facilitating these efforts. Those interested in assisting are asked to contact Steven Lang at 703-605-1722 for further information.”

When illegal aliens are armed with a cadre of free lawyers, they are able to clog the system with meritless claims, keeping illegal aliens in the country longer and making it more difficult to deport criminal illegal aliens. (source)

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In an article titled “Law Students Needed to Represent Asylum Seekers,” in Student Lawyer in January 2001, Steven Lang, then the pro bono coordinator for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, was quoted as encouraging law students to provide free legal services to migrants seeking asylum:

"Law students are a very important and valuable source of pro bono representation," says Steven Lang, pro bono coordinator for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) which hears asylum cases. "Their service not only benefits immigrants in removal proceedings, but it gives them hands-on, real litigation experience like no other they will find in law school. EOIR welcomes law student involvement through experienced, supervising attorneys, and immigration courts are often flexible in accommodating their schedules."

By arming illegal immigrants and asylum seekers with free legal representation, the process to deport them will be slowed considerably. (source)

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Lang served as Attorney Coordinator for ProBAR (the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project) in Harlingen, Texas, from June 1997 to February 2000. During his tenure, he spearheaded the ProBAR Legal Rights Project, which provided group presentations on legal rights to detainees at the Port Isabel Service Processing Center.

“Before accepting this position at EOIR, Lang served as Attorney Coordinator for ProBAR (the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project) in Harlingen, Texas, from June 1997 to February 2000. During this time, he initiated and supervised the ProBAR Legal Rights Project which makes live group rights presentations to all detainees at the Port Isabel Service Processing Center. From May 1994 to June 1997, Lang was in private immigration practice in Houston, Texas.” (source)

ProBAR is run by the left-wing American Bar Association. ProBAR’s website states that they worked to provide legal assistance to migrants sent back to Mexico under President Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, formally known as “Migrant Protection Protocols.” Additionally, ProBAR states that they formed a social work program to help migrants “safely relocate in their destination cities and access the social services they need”:

…As the landscape of immigration law and policy have shifted, our services have adapted to meet new needs – adding a children’s program in 2001, responding to the “surge” of unaccompanied children in 2014, and adapting services to the needs of families separated under zero tolerance in 2018 and asylum-seekers placed in the Migrant Protection Protocols program in 2019-2020 and 2022. Our programs have also expanded to better serve our clients and community. In 2019, ProBAR formalized the addition of a social work program to help clients safely relocate in their destination cities and access the social services they need in their new communities…  

Stay in Mexico was one of the most successful immigration programs of the last decade and Lang used to work for an organization that fights every day to undermine it and other policies like it. (source)