A Q&A with Carlos Spector, El Paso Immigration Attorney and Human Rights Defender

Spector, who specializes in Mexican asylum cases, said he expects more human rights defenders will request asylum after border opens this month to people with travel visas.

Carlos Spector in the film El Guardián de la Memoria by Marcela Arteaga

For more than 30 years, Carlos Spector has worked as a human rights defender and immigration attorney in El Paso, Texas, where he specializes in Mexican asylum cases. For years, Mexicans fleeing persecution and political violence have viewed Spector’s law office, which he runs with h…