Immigration lawyer Careen Shannon moderates a conversation with Tijuana-based human rights attorney Meritxell Calderon Vargas and immigration lawyer Rebecca Eichler who will report on their impressions of US immigration policy as well as Mexican policy
Rebecca N. Eichler has over 20 years of experience as an immigration attorney working with clients from around the world seeking protection under U.S. and international law. She currently lives and works in Mexico as a human rights advocate. She is a Board member of the Latin American Relief Fund and on the Legal Committee of Caminamos Juntos. Through her work with deportees from the U.S. and migrants at the U.S. border, she has gained a unique perspective on the systemic human rights abuses perpetrated by the Trump administration and its violations of U.S. immigration law and international asylum obligations. Now she updates the picture in the Biden Administration and reports from her recent visit to Mexico’s southern border.
Careen Shannon is an attorney, writer and former law professor who has focused on U.S. immigration law and policy for nearly 30 years. She is the co-author of several books, and the author of hundreds of articles, about immigration law and global migration. She has made numerous trips to the U.S.-Mexico border to provide pro bono legal services to immigrant families held by the U.S. government in detention camps in New Mexico and Texas. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Safe Passage Project, a New York-based nonprofit that provides free lawyers to immigrant youth.