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Podcast: The Border Chronicle
Episode: I Was an Asylum Seeker. Now I Help Others: A Podcast with Dora Rodriguez
Description: Dora Rodriguez was once an asylum seeker. She escaped the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s during the U.S.-backed civil war.  On her journey to the United States, her group was abandoned in the  Sonoran Desert south of Tucson, Arizona. Thirteen people traveling with  her died, and Rodriguez barely survived.
Since then,  she’s devoted her life to social work and to helping migrants in the  Sonoran Desert where she nearly perished. In this podcast, Rodriguez  talks about the migrant resource center called Casa de la Esperanza which  she helped open last year in the Me...