2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in Texas and Puerto Rico have meant that families have lost their homes…

“As incompetent and bumbling as the Trump Administration has been in so many areas, they have been brutally ruthless on immigration.” — Jose Chito Vela, Immigration Attorney and Candidate for Texas State Legislature It’s been…

Nearly two years ago on January 26, 2016, Life of the Law presented Un-DACA-mented, a report on the Obama Administration’s DACA Program, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program, begun in 2012, offered undocumented…

Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless you stop to hear their story, you may miss it. Each…

As a child, Surge Turnier fell in love with the sounds of the carnival bands that would pass near his house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Now one of the top music producers in the country, Turnier is faced with the reality that Haitian law offers little protection for music copyrights, and he must decide whether to quit the music business altogether, in order to provide financial security for his family.