Join Clark Hill’s Angeline Chen, a leading immigration attorney, in discussing the impacts of US immigration law and policy. On Immigration Today, Angeline interviews leaders, experts, advocates, and volunteers in immigration and immigrant rights on the issues, their experiences, and their advice on how YOU can make a difference.
On this episode, meet Erika Pinheiro, the litigation and policy director for Al Otro Lado, a binational non-profit organization providing legal and humanitarian support to indigent refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the US and Tijuana. Erika leads her organization's efforts in filing class action lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's attacks on the US asylum system, on unfair labor practices, and severe medical neglect in immigration detention facilities.
"They haven’t funded any of it in the past. I think that a lot of people believe that the government has tried to reunify the families they have located. And the only reason why there are still families separated is because they have not been found. That cannot be further from the truth."
Her team has reunified many separated families, including parents who were deported without their children, and has freed dozens of asylum seekers detained at the border. Her work has been frequently featured in national and international media outlets. Her Ted Talk about the border situation has over 2 million views.
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Erika through Rise to Reunite, a volunteer group I co-founded to help reunite families separated at the border.
Erika is my personal hero. She is my hero because she and her team are literally saving lives, by serving and assisting the most vulnerable population. They not only provide legal services but humanitarian aid to the migrant shelters in Tijuana by providing direct support in the form of emergency food and housing assistance, urgent medical care, hygiene supplies and PPE, and other critical needs during the pandemic.
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