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Asylum seekers in Nogales, Sonora, must contend with a complex problem: They don’t have lawyers to guide them through the labyrinth of U.S. immigration laws.
None of the several dozen asylum seekers interviewed there by the Arizona Daily Star in the last two weeks has consulted a lawyer or knew of other asylum seekers who had consulted a lawyer, a common scenario along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Only about 4% of the roughly 56,000 asylum seekers who entered Migrant Protection Protocols proceedings from January to November 2019 had legal representation, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which compiles data obtained from federal agencies.
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