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December 21, 2018 |
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Legal representation for detained migrants hindered by access issues
By Maria Benevento
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The government doesn't provide attorneys in immigration court because deportation is considered a civil rather than criminal penalty, even though for some migrants it can mean being returned to a country where they are at risk of persecution.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which analyses government data, found in late 2017 that representation can make a five-fold difference in positive outcomes for asylum cases and reported that overall representation rates for detained immigrants were around 30 percent compared to around 70 percent for those never detained.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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