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How to keep fighting when the system repeatedly breaks your hope

The judge denied my asylum case and my lawyer says we can appeal but I am so tired of hoping and having it crushed that I just want to disappear.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated legal defeats can destroy the capacity to envision a future, leaving people in existential despair.

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