Protection, Without a Lawyer
The government says it protects unaccompanied children—then leaves them alone in court.
Source article: Federal contract ends, leaving 26,000 migrant children without lawyers.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- human migration, social condition, law, civil rights, health
- Primary entities
- Office of Refugee Resettlement, Acacia Center for Justice, ProBAR, Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, U.S. immigration courts
- Themes
- immigration, legal aid, children's rights, government contracts, asylum
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness