• Court crisis – Injustice to sweep the wave of unaccompanied children in Louisiana due to shortage of lawyer & case backlogs
  • 19-Aug

    A large number of Honduran immigrant’s residents has become a crowd-puller for kids fleeing from the troubled country-Central America. New Orleans has more number of unaccompanied kids than any other; still only about half a dozen of nonprofit immigration lawyers are dedicatedly serving these kids. As they are arriving in record numbers, the New Orleans Immigration court is crumpling under severe stress.

    According to a report by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), in the first six months of 2014, the court has taken only 450 juvenile immigration cases; there are nearly 1071 unaccompanied minors in Louisiana who have crossed the southwest border this year and there are 1,216 pending juvenile immigration cases, where the children are running the courtroom up and down to find their future path in the US.

    Legal representation may be the single largest factor in determining whether an undocumented immigrant wins the right to remain in the U.S. and as these kids face major hurdle in speaking English, some of them go without a lawyer which ultimately results in deportation.

    The lack of a permanent judge is a warning sign of a national problem, the immigration court system is broken,” the issue should be addressed by hiring full-time judges and by lifting the freeze on hiring of new lawyers.

    The New Orleans’ struggle is part of a prototype. Nationwide, immigration court has become a throttle point in the border crisis. This has created problems on both sides, unaccompanied children on the one side and immigration lawyers on the other- the state is crumbling under the weight of new arrivals, with enormous case backlogs and a lack of attorneys.

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