The woman nodded nervously as the judge told her, through a Spanish interpreter, that this was her last chance to apply for asylum. She’d already been given two opportunities. Now she had until July.
“Thank you,” the woman said.
Outside the immigration courtroom in Concord, Sergio Jaime Lopez greeted her with a smile. Sharply dressed and warm, the 39-year-old explained he was there to help.
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The woman, Rosaura, was from Mexico. Small, middle-aged and visibly flustered, she stumbled through an explanation in Spanish. “It’s just that sometimes — I mean, how would I know?” she said. “I told my daughters, but — well, no. So where do I go to apply for that, then? Or — I don’t know.”
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