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BYU law students help fleeing immigrants caught between countries

Legal aid • Future lawyers volunteer at a Texas facility where women and children, hoping to get asylum, await the U.S. authorities’ decision.

| courtesy of Carolina Nuñez A group of BYU law students participated in a "life-changing" five-day externship in Dilley, Texas, at the South Texas Family Detention Center in February. Photos were not permitted at the facility, where they worked with immigrant mothers and children who came to the U.S. illegally but hope to be granted asylum due to threats and violence in their countries of origin.