Education Law,
Law Practice,
Immigration
Dec. 31, 2018
UC Irvine law students help caravan members
Law students and professors have gone to Tijuana to advise asylum seekers on their options.
UC Irvine School of Law students who participated in the Tijuana Border Rights Project, from left: Emily Johanson (second year), Sumouni Basu,(first year), Emily Satifka (third year), Charlene Sun (third year), Coral Lopez (Alston & Bird LLP associate and class of 2015), Erika Bertelsen (third year), and Sue Chang (third year).
When a migrant caravan arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border, including thousands of potential asylum seekers, a patchwork of legal services providers have been working together to assist them with everything from food to advice. The UC Irvine School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic is one of those organizations, and it has been sending students and professors to Tijuana to advise asylum seekers there on their options since another caravan began arriving in the fall of las...
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