“Whoever Saves a Life, Saves a World”: On the Death of Carlos Spector, El Paso Immigration Attorney
He saved numerous lives by winning Mexican asylum cases that many said would be impossible to win.
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Sasabe Notebook: Big Contracts, New Border Walls, and a Humanitarian Crisis
In this exceptionally beautiful swath of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, there is a collision of expensive border infrastructure construction and increasing numbers of people seeking asylum.
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