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The soft chatter in the waiting room at the Yarra Law Group offices in Fresno are muffled by a Food Network show playing on TV. Receptionist tap their keyboards and answer phone calls. A 23-year-old woman from El Salvador, who we’ll call Ana, is among the dozen people in the room. A receptionist calls her name and she goes in to see her immigration attorney, Jeremy Clason. He’s preparing documents he’ll eventually file with the immigration court in San Francisco. She speaks to him softly as she begins to tell her story. “When I first got together with my son’s father everything was normal,” Ana says in Spanish. “Time passed and he became aggressive, violent and there were moments when he would hit me.” Valley Public Radio is granting Ana anonymity because her ex-boyfriend, who’s also her son’s father, doesn’t know where they are now. She says she fears if he discovers where they are, he’ll find them and hurt them. Ana is among the hundreds in the San Joaquin Valley and thousands in the
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