Mrs. Cabrera joined Hurwitz Holt, APLC in 2016. She has expertise in removal defense, asylum, humanitarian protections (including U and T visas and special immigrant juvenile petitions), family petitions, DACA, naturalization, and appeals. Mrs. Cabrera enjoys tackling complex immigration issues and helping clients in urgent situations.
Mrs. Cabrera has presented nationally and locally at multiple conferences on complex marriage-based cases, bond/parole from ICE custody, stays of removal, FOIA’s, and the Immigration Court.
Mrs. Cabrera has always been passionate about working with marginalized communities, specifically the immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities. In her free time, Mrs. Cabrera volunteers with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to fight for equality on all levels for all people. As a current member of and former co-chair of the HRC San Diego Steering Committee she has led an annual virtual food drive for unhoused and at-risk youth in San Diego since 2015, as well as various fundraisers to help dreamers pay the filing fees for their DACA applications.
She enjoys spending time with her wife, their two daughters, and two dogs, Franklin and Pocket. She also enjoys hiking, traveling, camping, concerts, trying new food and cooking.
Memberships/Admissions:
- State Bar of California, admitted 2015, Bar No. 304233
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Education:
- J.D., Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 2014
- B.A., San Diego State University, 2008
Associations/Affiliations:
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA)
- Human Rights Campaign (HRC):
In the Media:
- Parole in Place program ‘Keeping Families Together,’ cancelled, CBS 8 San Diego (November 16, 2024)
- SDPD lags behind other local departments in granting visas to immigrant crime victims, KPBS, Radio San Diego (August 8, 2022)
- ICE subpoenas San Diego Sheriff’s Department, The Los Angeles Times (February 14, 2020)
- ‘I’m Scared for My Life”: ICE Deports US Army Officer’s Mom, NBC 7 San Diego (January 2, 2020)
- Army Officer returns home to San Diego to say goodbye to mother before deportation, The San Diego Union Tribune (December 22, 2019)
- Deportation averted for now for crime victim, childhood arrival, The San Diego Union Tribune (May 24, 2017)
Languages:
- English
- Spanish