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According to reports, about 40 to 60 percent of these children could qualify for protection from deportation under American law. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for instance, conducted a statistically significant study of recently arrived children and found that 60 percent were forcibly displaced from their home countries due to violence that could implicate the need for international protection. Yet, without a lawyer, the odds of winning are low. A second recent report found that nine of 10 unrepresented children are deported, while almost half of represented children are allowed to stay in the United States.
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