She has represented asylum seekers before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Previously, she worked at ProBAR, a project of the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and the State Bar of Texas, where she helped detained asylum seekers at the Port Isabel Detention Center on the Texas-Mexico border. She has won over 30 asylum cases in U.S. courts and has published in the Oxford Monitor on Forced Migration, the Human Rights Brief, the International Lawyer, and Peace Review, among others. The views in this article are those of the author alone and do not necessarily represent the views of RAICES.