We try not to make this show about politics or the legal side of immigration to focus on the human stories. But, at the end of the day, the process of immigrating is shaped by the law. And that creates this relationship where immigration law, on one hand, can get people in trouble. On the other hand, immigration law can also provide a way out of abusive domestic situations. That gets messy. In comes Gloria Greenfield.
Gloria is the Senior Director of Programs at Sojourner House, which is a nonprofit that offers services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Gloria runs their immigration program, the only one of its kind in a domestic violence center in Rhode Island. Our conversation gets into tough intersections of immigration and domestic violence and helps me understand immigration law in a totally new way.
