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Meet Malvena Driscoll

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I had worked in immigration actually for
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many years before becoming a lawyer and
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I think I really wanted to become an
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immigration lawyer because I thought
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that it would be a way to help those who
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are coming from other countries
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understand the process better and get
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through it better I think I was most
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inspired by the story of my grandparents
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all four of my grandparents came to this
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country early in the 1900s
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and they were very young when they came
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very young my mother’s mother in fact
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was only 18 years old when she came to
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the US by herself she didn’t know the
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language I’m not really sure if she knew
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anyone and I saw the risks that they
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took and the sacrifices that they made
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and I wondered sometimes who helped them
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through the process how how did they
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fill out the forms how did they know
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what to do now all these years later I
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see a lot of other people coming from
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other countries taking those same risks
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taking those same chances making those
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same sacrifices and I felt that by me
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being a lawyer I could actually be that
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person there to help them it’s much more
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complicated now though the process is
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much more complex there were more laws
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there were more restrictions there were
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more forms and if I can be that person
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to help someone else through the process
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it’s really helping them to change their
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lives and their families just like my
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grandparents everything that they went
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through made my life better for me I can
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be that person now to help those same
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people you know make their way through
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the US and and change their family’s
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lives forever
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Cambridge, MA immigration lawyer Malvena Driscoll shares why she became a lawyer.

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