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Today’s introduction is from Jennifer Medina, a national correspondent based in Los Angeles.

The lawyer advertising his services on a Spanish radio station claimed he could fix even the most complicated immigration problems. So Luis Angel Reyes Savalza’s parents called him, their frustration evident in their voices as they asked him: Why can’t you do that?

“Nothing is that simple with immigration,” he told them. Mr. Reyes Savalza became an immigration lawyer in San Francisco largely because of his own family’s entanglement with the system: As a child, he crossed the Mexican border illegally with his parents.

Today, he represents clients who are at risk of deportation.

One of them, Lizbeth Mateo, just became a lawyer herself. Ms. Mateo and Mr. Reyes Savalza are the beneficiaries of a California law that allows undocumented immigrants to be admitted to the state bar.