This photograph shows the two main supports of effective immigration advocacy power and compassion, uncompromising and heartfelt. The lawyer does not take a position of shielding the client, but he takes the position of solidarity, or unity, facing up against a mighty apparatus of bureaucracy in the wall of papers. The hand on the shoulder is supportive, gives out empathy and assurance, recognising the emotional burden of the path. However, the collective look ahead and the determination in the face of the lawyer reflect the critical power and the legal power needed to manoeuvre the system. It portrays that advocacy is no longer about making a choice between being tough and tender, but about combining the two. The love is what creates the motivation to struggle and the power makes the struggle effective and wise. They both enable the client to build strength and change fear, confusion to the common purpose.