Imagine a world in which you would flee your homeland, risking life and limb, possible deportation and/or prison to build a better life for you and your family. Against all odds, the perils of the journey, scant possessions carried across your back, knowing anything would be better than the sheer poverty, persecution and/or violence and abuse you face at home.

Roxana Cortés-Mills can. She’s heard their stories. But she’s also lived them. An immigrant herself, she is all too familiar with their plight, which is why she chose from a young age to serve as their advocate. At 11, she moved from Mexico to reconnect with her father, an immigrant, who had found work at a frozen-food packing plant.

Today, the married mother of one is legal director of the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancem

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