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USU Graduate And Immigration Law Expert Busts Myths About Asylum Seekers

Utah State University graduate uses law degree to assist immigrants and educate about myths.
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Before Angela Morrison started teaching immigration law at Texas A&M she provided direct legal representation to noncitizen victims of trafficking and crime as legal director of the Nevada Immigrant Resource Project at UNLV. A graduate of Utah State University, she was on the Logan campus recently as the keynote speaker during Inclusive Excellence Symposium where she discussed Five Myths about immigration, including the belief that noncitizens are illegal aliens.  

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Texas A&M Association Law Professor Angela Morrison specializes in immigration law.

Angela Morrison is an immigration law professor at Texas A&M. She spoke with UPR’s Kerry Bringhurst about five immigration myths she says are directing public opinion and public policy. A USU graduate, Morrison was the keynote speaker during a recent Inclusive Excellence Symposium in Logan.

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.