Exhibit A
Immigration Lawyers work in McAllen
McAllen sits in Hidalgo County, and the demand for immigration help here runs through the Rio Grande Valley rather than through one downtown strip. Searches come from people in McAllen itself and from the towns strung along the expressway toward Mission, Pharr, Edinburg and Weslaco. The firms competing for those searches are mostly small practices and solo attorneys, with a handful of larger offices that advertise across the valley. Paid search in this trade is worth real money to the firms that bid on it, because a single retained case carries a high value, so the sponsored results at the top of the page are contested. The searches themselves are often in Spanish as well as English, and they are often made on a phone by someone who needs an answer this week. That is the demand available in McAllen: steady, local, and split between two languages.
