Kathleen Campbell ’16 and Benjamin Haldeman ’16 conducted a trial in the Hartford Immigration Court that ended with an asylum grant for L—, a 19-year old from Ecuador. While employed as a poll worker during legislative elections, L— saw political operatives burning legitimately-cast ballots and replacing them with votes for the ruling party’s candidates. When L— reported this corruption to an electoral official and the police, he began to receive threatening phone calls. He tried moving to another city, but there was threatened by a man who pointed a gun at him and warned that he would be hurt for “speaking out.” The testimony, evidence, and legal arguments Ben and Kathy presented at the hearing convinced the immigration judge that L—’s whistle-blowing conduct amounted to an expression of political opinion, and that L—would face a high risk of being killed anywhere in Ecuador.