Posted on 08/04/2014 11:35:45 AM PDT by dennisw
A class-action lawsuit filed this week on behalf of eight undocumented minors demands that children be provided legal guidance in immigration court.
Finally, someone at ORR managed to get in touch with one of Henry’s relatives in Guatemala who found a cousin in Los Angeles willing to sponsor Henry. His cousin, a U.S. citizen, insisted on finding Henry an attorney. It was actually in the parking lot of L.A.’s Immigrants’ Rights Project that Henry’s cousin met directing attorney Judy London and persuaded her to take on his case.
London says it took two months of working with the traumatized teen through a Mam interpreter before she was able to plead his case. But in the end, London helped Henry get a green card through Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, a program for foreign children who’ve been abused, neglected, or abandoned. Henry’s story is harrowing, but the most unusual part of it is the fact that he was able to find a lawyer to help him navigate the immigration court system. Most kids in the same situation aren’t so lucky. In fact, more than half of all minors who go through immigration court proceedings in the U.S. do so without the guidance of an attorney. That’s why the American Immigration Council, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Public Counsel, and K&L Gates LLP, have filed a class-action lawsuit against the United States, arguing that the government should be required to provide legal representation to children during immigration court proceedings.
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How could they have standing? They commit a crime and then complain about the consequences. Is it any different for a car thief or a murderer?
Liberals having it both ways again.
No one talks about the absurdity of the Liberals on this one.
America is a ‘racist’ s&^% hole unlike any other on earth.... yet ‘look at all these poor kids who risk their lives to come here for a better chance in life.’
Well, Liberal idiots ... which IS IT?????
You watch.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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