Abogado carlos spector biography

Carlos Spector enlisted in the U.S. Air Force after high school and served most of his time in Germany.
Lawyer, Carlos Spector discusses his work representing families in Mexico who are seeking political asylum.
They were joined by eminent El Paso Immigration lawyer Carlos Spector who has taken on their case pro bono, and Dr. Giovanni B'atz', Maya.

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Lawyer Helping Wrong-Way Ammo Driver Detained In Mexico

Lawyer Helping Wrong-Way Ammo Driver

An attorney in El Paso is assisting the family of an American truck driver detained in Mexico.

Carlos Spector has made a name for himself representing Mexicans fleeing the country's brutal drug war to seek asylum in the United States. Now he is helping the family of Jabin Akeem Bogan, who is charged with smuggling ammunition into Mexico.

Spector says Bogan ended up in Mexico by mistake. Bogan is a driver for a trucking company based in Arlington, Texas. On April 17 he was making deliveries in El Paso when he claims to have made a wrong turn off the highway and eventually found himself at the international bridge.

In phone calls with his boss and later with Spector, Bogan says a "cop in a blue uniform" directed him to cross into Mexico and turn around. It's still unclear who he spoke to.

Once at the Mexican inspection station, Bogan was arrested after customs agents found more than 200,

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On election night in 2016, Carlos Spector turned off the TV as soon as the networks called it. He shifted on the couch toward his wife, Sandra, and said, “We’re fucked, honey.” The next morning he awoke at 4:30 like always and drove across El Paso to the two-story law office with his name out front. The mahogany desk upstairs was littered with case files. As he sat in front of the large windows that overlooked the border, he asked himself, What are we going to do? Soon attorneys all along the US-Mexico line called him asking that same question, because he was Carlos Spector, and surely he had a plan.

His plan, he said, was to wait.

Spector specializes in arguing asylum cases with the worst odds, and after working for nearly 30 years in one of the country’s strictest immigration courts, he’d learned the value of patience. Sometimes it was only a matter of finding the right client, like in the early 1990s, when he represented a border-town mayor who, threatened by machin

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07 Apr Immigration Lawyer Carlos Spector Declares Asylum Case of Maya-Ixil Human Rights Defenders “The Most Significant I’ve Ever Had”

Posted at 14:05h in Journal by Pamela Yates

On March 19th Carlos Spector Law Offices held a virtual international press conference featuring human rights and environmental defenders Gaspar Cobo and Francisco Chávez telling the story of their harrowing flight from Guatemala amidst death threats, and the pursuit of their asylum case in the United States. They were joined by eminent El Paso Immigration lawyer Carlos Spector who has taken on their case pro bono, and Dr. Giovanni B’atz’, Maya scholar who has traveled in and written extensively about the Maya-Ixil region. Media outlets in Guatemala, Mexico and the US covered the story, providing a platform to protest continuing attacks against defenders in Guatemala, as well as a way to address immigration rights in the United States. Gaspar and Francisco had recently been released after two months in ICE detention amidst the COVID pandemic. We have been following their journey from Guatemala to the US