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More than half of children in ICE immigration courts are representing themselves, DOJ data shows
CubitOomMore than half of the children with deportation orders are representing themselves in immigration courts, according to data from the Department of Justice.
President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown has made headlines for what many view as Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive tactics and alleged inhumane conditions at detention centers.
But what is less talked about are the hundreds of thousands of children navigating the immigration court system as they face deportation.
Of the 751,861 children with pending removal cases, 57 percent, or 425,093 of them, do not have lawyers, Drop Site News reported Friday.
The independent investigative news site’s figures were sourced from an analysis of data from the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice.
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MaeveThis is why Obama denounced his pastor, and later abandoned his church membership, on the campaign trail.
US politicians can’t be seen to be associating with the truth.
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The number should be 0.
Disgusting
And people wonder why I don’t feel like celebrating July 4th.
The way I see it, it’s a celebration of what could be, not just what is. It’s celebrating a people who saw the injustices their nation was committing and they led a revolution against them, despite the odds being against them. The American Right tries to have ownership of it as a nationalist day, but it is explicitly a celebration of revolution.
What, to the Immigrant, Is Your Fourth of July?
Don’t get how that’s legal, but America never fails to disappoint when it comes to child abuse
The administration decided that “people” means “citizens” only.
I wish I was being sarcastic but I am not.
Its legal because the system suborns it
It’s legal because that’s why.
nor the GOP when it comes to the lawless abuse of the the power they wield over vulnerable minorities
I need people to understand that “immigration courts” are not judicial mechanisms. They are administrative courts. In such courts, respondents are not entitled to the same constitutional protections afforded everyone by the judicial system.
This is fucking bullshit. Administrative courts should only exist to adjudicate administrative matters, like rules promulgated by the EPA or FTC. They are not sufficient in their oversight or transparency to address matters concerning individuals and matters addressing specific individuals.
“representing themselves” = “caught helpless and unaided in the cogs of a heartless system”