Tag: access to justice

Fox News Nails The Border-Child Attorney Issue

The headline nails the story for a Fox News report: “Will illegal immigrant kids stay or be sent home? Depends if they have a lawyer.” The report cites a recent report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse… Read More

US House Drops Border-Crisis Bill

BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. House of representatives has dropped a bill that would have provided some $659 million in funding to address the 60,000 unaccompanied children that have arrived on the southwest border. The Huffington Post noted that… Read More

D.C. Media Notes Children Representation Crisis

The Washington D.C. ABC News affiliate is picking up the crisis at the border, with some fairly in-depth information on the legal representation aspect of the ongoing border crisis of unaccompanied children seeking refuge in the U.S. Says… Read More

WaPo: Obama Admin. Was Warned Of Border-Children Crisis

Top officials at the White House and the State Department had been warned repeatedly of the potential for a further explosion in the number of migrant children since the crisis began escalating two years ago, according to former… Read More

Syracuse University Shedding Light On Lawyers For Unaccompanied Refugee Children

A Syracuse University study is offering timely information on how many of those unaccompanied border-crossing children are getting representation: about 48 percent. The International Business Times is citing the study in saying that “… data further estimates that… Read More