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- Title
ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES: A STUDY OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF DETAINED IMMIGRANTS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
- Authors
Srikantiah, Jayashri; Hausman, David; Weissman-Ward, Lisa
- Abstract
The recent influx of refugee families migrating to the United States has cast a spotlight on the broken immigration system. Under current U.S. immigration laws and policies, immigrants in Northern California and across the country are not entitled to a lawyer unless they can pay for one or find someone to represent them for free. This Article focuses on the Northern California immigrants who often face the most difficult challenges: those who are locked up while their deportation cases are decided by the courts. An overwhelming majority of these immigrants are forced to face deportation proceedings without a lawyer even though they are behind bars. This is true even for immigrants who have lived in Northern California with their families for most of their lives. When these immigrants lose their cases, after fighting removal from behind bars and without counsel, they face lengthy or permanent separation from their Northern California families or a return to violence in foreign countries.
- Subjects
NORTHERN California; UNITED States; IMMIGRANT families; LEGAL assistance to immigrants; IMMIGRANTS; DEPORTATION; VIOLENCE
- Publication
Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
1553-7226
- Publication type
Article