Bloomberg Law
June 19, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

Immigration Lawyer Uses Music to Appeal for Immigrants

Elizabeth Olson
Elizabeth Olson
Special Correspondent

Susan Cohen—who has been practicing immigration law for more than three decades—is using music to raise awareness of the plight of refugees in a video she created called “Beyond the Borders.”

Cohen, head of Mintz Levin’s national immigration practice, wrote the song from the points of view of a fictionalized Syrian refugee family and the American aid worker who befriends them.

Music students sing the parts of each family member who contrast their past lives with their current existence as wanderers who “are cast beyond the borders” and “lost across the sea.”

Cohen was inspired to write the ...

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