Byu Law Students Help Fleeing Immigrants Caught Between Countries

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Thu, 03/30/2017 - 6:00am

During five âlife-changingâ days in Dilley, Texas, 10 BYU law students listened to women and children who had fled their homelands after being raped, threatened and abused, watching loved ones perish. The âexternshipâ was a volunteer opportunity to render legal aid at the South Texas Family Residential Center, a holding place with 2,400 beds for women and children caught crossing the border illegally and hoping to find asylum in the U.S. âThe only thing that made me different from these women wa... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>

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