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Volunteer Staff Attorney Octavio Villegas VLOG from Puerto Rico

Octavio Villegas, University at Buffalo School of Law Class of 2015, has participated in every service-learning trip of the Puerto

There is a crisis at the border but not the one you have heard about. We just spent a week

As I am looking through the window, it’s snowing here in Buffalo, and I cannot but think how all the

Although the long week in Dilley Texas has ended, I can still hear echoes of children’s voices in my head.

My trip to Puerto Rico as a student attorney in the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Puerto Rico Recovery

In November 2018, President Trump warned the nation about a migrant caravan from Central America approaching the U.S.-Mexico border. Particularly,

Here we are, on the eve of our last day in Dilley. We left the detention center at 8pm and

Cancer survivor, abuse survivor, murder victim, and amputee victim. Now imagine these phrases: Cancer victim, abuse victim, murder survivor, amputee

Day 3 at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. After working with a great Spanish interpreter during

For the third iteration of the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic, I was