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Policy and Public Interest Groups |
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American Civil Liberties Union |
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March 18, 2015 |
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Big Government v. Traumatized Defenseless Children = Justice?
By Joanne Lin
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Government-paid counsel is an indispensable component to a fair and efficient immigration court system. The presence of immigration counsel greatly increases children's chances of winning their immigration case. Using a decade's worth of immigration court records, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University found that whether an unaccompanied child had an immigration attorney was the single most important factor influencing the case's outcome. In nearly three-quarters of cases in which a child was represented, the immigration court allowed the child to remain in the U.S. In the cases where the child had no immigration counsel, only 15 percent of the children were allowed to remain in the U.S. The remaining 85 percent were ordered to be deported.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2015
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