Dream 9 Attorney Says
Government Policy Amounts To "A War on The Poor"
The attorney representing the Dream 9 is a longtime activist for immigrants' rights and is a staff attorney at the Pima County Public Defender's office, where her biography is posted:
" Margo Cowan -- Graduate of the Antioch School of Law, Washington,
D.C., 1985; admitted to the State Bar of Pennsylvania in 1986; admitted to the
State Bar of Arizona in 1995; substantial experience as an attorney in general
immigration practice since 1986; General Counsel, Tohono O'Odham Nation
1993-2003; Of Counsel, Congressman Raul Grijalva, 2004; extensive pro bono
work, mainly in the areas of border/immigration policy development and
representation of undocumented persons and refugees; Defense Attorney in the
Law Offices of the Pima County Public Defender since 2004.
In March 2007, the
National Association for Social Workers- AZ Branch II awarded Margo with the
Cesar Chavez Humanitarian Award for her dedication in advancing human rights
for over thirty-five years. An example of this dedication is her co-founding of
the group No More Deaths. This group provides assistance to migrants returning
from the U.S. to the border towns of Mexico, and their sole purpose is to
reduce the amount of deaths in the Arizona Desert.
In a book published in 2010 by Beacon Press, "The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands," author Margaret Regan refers to Cowan as
"the indefatigable pro bono attorney for No More Deaths."
Regan quotes Cowan as describing U.S. immigration policy as "a war on the
poor."
About her own work, Cowan said: "Everything we do is
transparent. We're just a group of
people who think migrants shouldn't die in the desert on their way to clean
toilets."
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