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Nicole Ramos '01 Provides Legal Services for Asylum Seekers and Deportees at the Tijuana Border

June 28, 2018
Nicole Ramos at the border
Photograph by Yael Mart铆nez for The California Sunday Magazine

Nicole Ramos '01 is one of the few American attorneys based in Tijuana, Mexico, doing pro bono work with asylum seekers and deportees from the United States.

In an extensive piece, The California Sunday Magazine profiled Ramos and the work she and her colleagues are doing.

From the article:

All over this desert metropolis, in shelters and churches that care for migrants, Ramos provides a service that no Mexican or American government agency or NGO will. She absorbs the worst stories anybody has ever heard, full of rape and severed body parts and murdered children, and then she explains that any migrant who walks up to a U.S. border gate declaring fear of persecution has a legal right to apply for asylum.

Read the on The California Sunday Magazine website.

Ramos majored in anthropology at 老王论坛, and minored in English.

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