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- Title
These Kids Need Lawyers: Why and How the United States Must Provide the Right to Appointed Counsel for Detained Unaccompanied Children.
- Authors
FERRER, ADRIELLI
- Abstract
The article identifies atrocities faced by detained unaccompanied children in mass detention centers in the U.S. and proposes granting of greater due process rights of appointed counsel for detained unaccompanied children. Topics discussed are provisions in the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and Immigration Nationality Act, due process statues that influence detention of unaccompanied children, and gaps in U.S. law addressed in the United Nations (UN) Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
- Subjects
UNACCOMPANIED immigrant children; APPOINTED counsel; RIGHT to counsel; DUE process of law; DETENTION of persons; CONVENTION Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951); UNITED States. Constitution. 6th Amendment; UNITED States. Immigration &; Nationality Act
- Publication
San Diego International Law Journal, 2021, Vol 23, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
1539-7904
- Publication type
Article