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Podcast: Immigration Today!
Episode: 5. Does U.S. Asylum Law Really Exist? The Reality of Those Living on the Margins of the U.S.-Mexican Border – with Nicole Ramos from Al Otro Lado
Description: On today’s episode we are pleased to have Nicole Ramos, Director of Al Otro Lado . Al Otro Lado is a binational non-profit organization providing holistic legal and humanitarian support to indigent refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the U.S. and Tijuana through a multidisciplinary, client-centered, harm reduction-based practice. Nicole Ramos fiercely advocates for immigrants at the border by helping asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico who wish to present themselves to immigration authorities. She is incredibly brave and fearless – not only is she constantly in front of the U.S. government challenging the practice of turning away asylum seek...