She mentioned “programs that would actually provide immediate solutions, such as the H-2A visa program that would allow temporary workers to meet our seasonal needs.” She said that Biden “could also champion more bills to create a pathway to legalization.” But, Reyes added, “our divided Congress is unwilling to do anything. “It was a horrific time.” When President Biden entered office, he reversed some of Trump’s directives, but Reyes has been disappointed that the Biden Administration hasn’t done more. “They were arresting immigrants at work, outside of school, in parking lots, outside of stores, gas stations,” Reyes recalled. Jacksonville is thirty miles from the Georgia border, and Customs and Border Patrol officers were all over the place. Under Trump, Reyes said, “everyone was deportable, everyone was a priority, everyone was a target.” Trump also undid Obama’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement directives, which established that only violent criminals and those who posed national security threats were priorities for deportation.
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“I had to find creative ways to keep cases going in court, find alternative relief, or prepare the client to go to trial and then pray for an appeals process,” she said. Trump reversed the decision to protect victims of domestic violence, and he attacked the asylum system in general. Reyes remained busy during Donald Trump’s Presidency, but it was harder for her to win. “It was an exciting time to be an immigration attorney,” she said. Reyes started winning more and more cases, and her business grew through referrals and community outreach. Reyes watched his speech with a group of colleagues who, like her, were “super excited about it.” They knew that DACA, an executive order, could be overturned at some point, but also that it would help their clients. A few months after she started her practice, the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals granted asylum protection to victims of domestic violence, which Reyes called “a huge triumph for the immigration world.” Soon after that, President Barack Obama announced an expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
She helped her clients with their applications and petitions to remain in the United States, and prepared them for their interviews and trials. In June, 2014, Andrea Reyes, an immigration lawyer born in Colombia and raised in the U.S., opened her own firm in Jacksonville, Florida.
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