“All of these powers that normally allow me to defend a client are no longer there. And, now it’s just like, it’s almost like I’m a paper pusher," Ersan said. "I just go to court, say what the judge needs me to say, and if I deviate from what they need me to say it’s deny, deny, deny.”

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"We used to be able to reopen deportation orders very easily we would just submit to the court that there’s a relief and explain why he did not appear and the judges would be very open. What’s changed in the Trump administration is my opposing counsel. The Department of Homeland Security. The attorney I would normally bargain with, or at least try and find some middle ground, is no longer picking up my phone calls, responding to my emails. I have absolutely no access to my opposing councils,” she added.

“There is no avenue of coming here legally anymore to speak of,” Ersan said. “The way to come here used to be by working, by having a sponsor. These are practically gone. It’s a joke to even try to apply for them.”

“The only people that can actually get any legal status in America right now is through family your husband or wife is an American citizen or your parents some kind of family,” she added.