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How to build a future when past survival choices haunt your legal status

I have been clean for three years but my drug conviction from when I was desperate and young means I can never become a citizen.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Immigration law often punishes survival behaviors without accounting for the desperation that drives them.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Refugee and immigration justice?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.