“How can I live so well when a lot of people are suffering? I knew I had to do something to help my people.”On this episode of Immigration Today! with Angeline Chen, meet Leticia Herrera, the owner of a migrant shelter in Tijuana Mexico called Pro Amore DEI that houses asylum seekers. This shelter hosts around 185 people including 60 children.  One of the unique qualities of this shelter is that they work with the Yes We Can World Foundation and turned a school bus into a classroom for kids.  You can review the LA Times article here.  In the podcast, Leticia details why she does this work, what is provided in the shelter, and how you can help. I had the pleasure of meeting Letitia as the cofounder of Rise to Reunite, a volunteer group that helps reunite families separated at the border. We volunteer with Al Otro Lado, which is a bipartisan legal services organization assisting migrants in Tijuana and Los Angeles.  We have brought volunteers to Pro Amore DEI consistently from the middle of 2018 to 2020 providing humanitarian aid and legal services.  Leticia is one of the strongest and most committed people I know, doing this work out of the kindness of her heart.  You can follow Pro Amore Dei on Facebook.If you are interested in donating money to help with food, water, diapers, medical supplies, utility bills, etc., you can donate directly to this shelter by using pay pal at this link Pro Amore Dei  You can also donate food, clothes, and supplies directly to the shelter by contacting Leticia through Whatsapp at +52 664 232 3116 or through www.borderangels.org.DISCLAIMER – No information contained in this Podcast or on this Website shall constitute financial, investment, legal and/or other professional advice and that no professional relationship of any kind is created between you and podcast host, the guests or Clark Hill PLC. You are urged to speak with your financial, investment, or legal advisors before making any investment or legal decisions.

On this episode of the Immigration Today! podcast with Angeline Chen, meet Angelica Salas, the Executive Director of the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights also known as CHIRLA.  From 1999 to now, she has transformed CHIRLA into one of the nation’s largest and most effective immigrant rights organizations.  CHIRLA is a mass membership immigrant-led organization that empowers immigrants and their families to win local, state, and national policies that advance their human, civil, and labor rights.  Among her achievements include: winning in-state, financial aid, and grant programs for California’s undocumented students, winning drivers’ licenses for undocumented drivers, decoupling local police departments from immigration enforcement, and winning Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).Angelica is an immigrant from Durango, Mexico, and came to the United States as a child to reunite with her parents.  She comes to her understanding of immigrants and immigration first hand.  She and her entire family lived in the country undocumented, experienced deportation, and were able to legalize their status.  In 2008, she became a U.S. citizen. “When you really think about family separation, just think about your kids and ask, ‘How long could I be away from my children? What would I be willing to risk for them?’  And all of a sudden, the answer is…anything.” I have had the pleasure of knowing Angelica through the YWCA Pasadena, where she was a recipient of the Women for Racial Justice Award at the annual breakfast and has been a valuable supporter of the YWCA.  I am truly inspired by her leadership, voice, and unstoppable drive to help immigrants.  Learn more about CHIRLA and how you can help at www.CHIRLA.org and on IG @chirla_org.  DISCLAIMER – No information contained in this Podcast or on this Website shall constitute financial, investment, legal and/or other professional advice and that no professional relationship of any kind is created between you and podcast host, the guests or Clark Hill PLC. You are urged to speak with your financial, investment, or legal advisors before making any investment or legal decisions. 

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.DISCLAIMER – No information contained in this Podcast or on this Website shall constitute financial, investment, legal and/or other professional advice and that no professional relationship of any kind is created between you and podcast host, the guests or Clark Hill PLC. You are urged to speak with your financial, investment, or legal advisors before making any investment or legal decisions.

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.