Nicole Ramos, Refugee Program Director at Al Otro Lado, addresses attorneys and legal advisors working with Al Otro Lado who gathered in their Tijuana office to discuss the escalating situation.
Lawyers and law students meet in the Al Otro Lado offices in Tijuana to discuss the day's plan. Lawyers had come to aid asylum seekers who had fled Central America and traveled to Tijuana, Mexico. The migrants planned to ask for asylum while presenting themselves to authorities at the US Port of Entry at San Ysidro, CA.