More than half of the children with deportation orders are representing themselves in immigration courts, according to data from the Department of Justice.

President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown has made headlines for what many view as Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive tactics and alleged inhumane conditions at detention centers.

But what is less talked about are the hundreds of thousands of children navigating the immigration court system as they face deportation.

Of the 751,861 children with pending removal cases, 57 percent, or 425,093 of them, do not have lawyers, Drop Site News reported Friday.

The independent investigative news site’s figures were sourced from an analysis of data from the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice.

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/Vy6lFFaX0nQ

This is why Obama denounced his pastor, and later abandoned his church membership, on the campaign trail.

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    [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    That's fucked

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    If they didn't have the money to hire lawyers they shouldn't have broken the law. /s

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  • Wow, kids standing up for themselves. Against the state, even! There's just no making you people happy, is there?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Officially passed the "then" part of This Manic Street Preachers classic a while ago 😮‍💨

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Your neighbor is to blame for all of this, for voting Red. And you are the same for doing nothing.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Blue no matter who! Biden will fix it!

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    [–] 29 points 4 months ago

    The number should be 0.

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    [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    And people wonder why I don't feel like celebrating July 4th.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    The way I see it, it's a celebration of what could be, not just what is. It's celebrating a people who saw the injustices their nation was committing and they led a revolution against them, despite the odds being against them. The American Right tries to have ownership of it as a nationalist day, but it is explicitly a celebration of revolution.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Don't get how that's legal, but America never fails to disappoint when it comes to child abuse

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    "representing themselves" = "caught helpless and unaided in the cogs of a heartless system"

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