Lizbeth Mateo, an immigration attorney in Los Angeles who is undocumented, will speak at a New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) seminar titled “The Undocumented Lawyer: An Insider’s Perspective to Immigration, Asylum and Civil Rights” on Jan. 27.
Mateo is the subject of a forthcoming HBO documentary, “The Undocumented Lawyer,” which will be shown at the seminar. At 14, she crossed the border into the United States with her parents and two brothers. In the documentary, the filmmakers follow Mateo as she represents undocumented immigrants in California courts, including Edith Espinal, a woman who takes sanctuary in a church to avoid ...