With the increase in number of unaccompanied children arriving at the United States border, some lawmakers strongly feel around 90 percent of the children attend their immigration court hearings, they quite often disappear into the woodwork and as an alternative they are put into detention.
The recent report published by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) indicates that a majority of children do attend the immigration proceedings – especially 90 percent or more when represented by lawyers. The report also indicates that children are rarely designated absentia during such cases.
As per human rights, the United Nation has stated that detention is never in a child’s best interest, for immigration violations, although several bills proposed this week contain mandatory detention provisions for children—such as Senator Jon Cornyn’s (R-TX) and Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-TX) Humane Act; Rep. Good latte’s and Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s (R-UT)Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act; and Sen. David Vitter’s (R-LA) and Rep. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) bill.
However, the data calls into question, the lawmakers’ claims that children overwhelmingly fail to show up for immigration proceedings. Substantiations of those claims have been fuzzy. Given TRAC’s data, if Congress wants to ensure that children attend proceedings, then Congress should consider appointing lawyers to children.
The Council and others recently filed a national lawsuit to provide lawyers to children in immigration proceedings.
easyIME likes to share information of US immigration, USCIS and Immigration News and it is first of its kind to cater for Immigration community to US. easyIME has stretched its hands in field Immigration Medical Exam by making easy for the Immigrant
