Consulate, nonprofits to provide legal aid to immigrants
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Jun 1, 2023 / 06:48 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 1, 2023 / 06:48 PM CDT
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – It’s seven simple yet, powerful words: “You have the right to remain silent.”
But that’s a phrase that many migrants who come to Melissa Lopez’s office never heard of before. If they had, they would not be seeking help to avoid deportation or another crushing major legal problem.
“State law requires that a person show identification. But the migrants we see don’t know they have the right not to talk to the police; they think they are required to disclose all of their information,” said Lopez, the executive director of El Paso’s Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services. “Most of the time, Immigration doesn’t have the information they need to deport you, but if you talk and give them that information, then they will.”
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