For more than 30 years, Modesto toiled in the central San Joaquin Valley fields, saving every spare penny to bring his family north from Mexico. Last year, he wrote a $30,000 check to an immigration consultant in Fresno County.
The day had finally arrived when Modesto — a legal U.S. resident since 1980 — could afford to bring his wife and five children to live with him in the U.S.
Or so he thought.
The immigration consultant filed sloppy and incomplete paperwork, took the money and ran. Modesto’s family didn’t get the visas, and he lost his life’s savings.
It’s stories like Modesto’s that inspired professors and students at the San Joaquin College of Law to open a free law clinic at the Consulate of Mexico to help legal immigrants in the Valley.
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