3,470 Central American children and families are being deported

How many Central American children and families are being deported?

Bob Ortega, The Republic | azcentral.com 4:57 p.m. MST November 12, 2014

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has not released data for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. From July 18 through the end of September, immigration judges ordered the removal (that is, the deportation) of at least 1,035 unaccompanied minors, with most of those children coming from Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador. Immigration judges also ordered the removal of at least 2,435 "family units," or parents with children, during that same time period.

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Very few of those children and families were represented by attorneys. Children as young as three years old have appeared in immigration court without an attorney, in effect representing themselves.

Statistically, nine out of ten children without an attorney are ordered removed. About half of children with representation are granted asylum.

After ICE opened an immigration-detention center in Artesia, N.M., in June, 135 family members held at the center were deported in the first two weeks, versus 12 who were released pending hearings.

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That would be about .11% of just the number that came in late Summer.

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Originally Posted by Newmexican

That would be about .11% of just the number that came in late Summer.

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Court hearings are just getting underway. There is a backlog for months and months of hearings. Stay tuned for more happy deportation articles.

Everytime I read one of these deportation stories I want to vomit! These numbers aren't even a drop in the bucket compared to those who entered illegally during those dates! We've been losing ground ...... well, since 1986.

It used to be that any article about any illegal aliens getting deported got comments about "Good work Border Patrol" or "Good work I.C.E." but every deportation article now brings nothing but negative comments like no one here wants to see any illegal aliens deported anymore.

(Yes. we all know more could and should be done but why try to see how unhappy we can be all of the time because we can't be happy about any illegal alien being deported.)

I think that it's something else. For one thing, the numbers are essentially meaningless. There are "illegals motels" on the other side of the border. Illegals lay up there, until they can sneak back in.

For another, 'Bama is preparing to create another wave of illegals who will flood into this country and undercut Americans for jobs. If the Repubs don't man up, the poorest Americans will be pushed aside and condemned to another generation of confusion and anger.

It would be great if we could celebrate deportations, but we can't, IMO.
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It used to be that any article about any illegal aliens getting deported got comments about "Good work Border Patrol" or "Good work I.C.E." but every deportation article now brings nothing but negative comments like no one here wants to see any illegal aliens deported anymore.

(Yes. we all know more could and should be done but why try to see how unhappy we can be all of the time because we can't be happy about any illegal alien being deported.)

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I appreciate your efforts of finding and posting this information. However, I just see the information as meaningless because the numbers are extremely insignificant. For example, let's assume I had a dog with 2000 fleas and I removed 100 (5%) of them. I'll bet the dog won't even noticed the difference and I'm darn sure he won't be any happier. Oh, and I'm not blaming ICE or BP because it's not their fault. ICE and BP agents are federal employees that fall under the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security. Of course we all know the head of DHS is a political appointee of Obama's.

My comments are nothing personal, JohnDoe, it's just that seeing such insignificant deportation numbers agitate me to no end! I'm guessing that is a boat I'm not sailing in alone.

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You can make yourself as miserable as you want to be over something that you have no control over or you can be happy about the little things that happen that you like.

I'm going to be happy every time anyone deports any illegal alien.

You go ahead and make yourself miserable, just don't try to take me down with you.

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You can make yourself as miserable as you want to be over something that you have no control over or you can be happy about the little things that happen that you like.

I'm going to be happy every time anyone deports any illegal alien.

You go ahead and make yourself miserable, just don't try to take me down with you.

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I'm not attempting to drag anyone down, however, I think I'll choose to continue in my misery over these insignificant deportation numbers. The numbers are only a reminder to me of how very little our government is doing in dealing with this issue. Sorry, I just can't find any happiness in that. Well, maybe I'm just a little harder to please than some. ;-)

Ninety-four percent of child migrants deported from US lack attorneys

By Jake Dean and Kevin Martinez
12 November 2014

Ninety-four percent of child migrants who were deported from the United States between July and October were not represented by attorneys at deportation hearings, Politico reported last week.

These children, as the newspaper noted, “many under 14 and with no grasp of English,” are being deported in rubber-stamp court hearings with no ability to effectively defend themselves.

According to data from the Executive Office of Immigration Review provided exclusively to Politico, between July 18 and October 21, 11,392 master calendar hearings took place, or more than 800 per week. Of the 1,804 cases listed as completed, 85 percent ruled for deportation.

“By pushing cases too quickly through the courts, it is just form over substance—simply a veneer of due process,” Dana Leigh Marks, an immigration judge in San Francisco and president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, told Politico. “Giving a kid a hearing before they have adequate time to find an attorney or to be in a position to articulate fear of return is not justice.”

According to the Stanford law clinic, immigrants who have lawyers are three times more likely to win deportation hearings. Of the 1,542 deportation orders handed down, 1,449 were issued in absentia, meaning the child did appear in court.

“This data confirms that hundreds of children are being ordered deported because they have failed to appear in court and they have failed to appear in court because they do not have lawyers,” Ahilan Arulanantham, an immigration attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in California, told Politico.

He added, “It shouldn’t surprise you that a 15 year-old, who is facing deportation to a violence-filled country that they fled, is not going to show up in court if they don’t have a lawyer to defend them there.”

A backlog of cases has led judges to approve more than 10,000 requests for the court case to be rescheduled, known as continuances. Out of this number, 5,740 were to allow children more time to find legal representation.

However, 37 percent of these extensions were only granted for 60 days or less, significantly less than the national standard of four months proposed by immigrant rights attorneys.

US officials have refused to set a minimum amount of time allowed by immigration courts for defendants to find proper counsel. This is part of the overall drive by the White House and Congress to accelerate deportation proceedings.

The Obama administration was responsible for the deportation of 438,421 people last year, the highest number of annual deportations in US history. In Obama’s six years in office, he has deported more people than Bush in his entire eight-year tenure.

The denial of attorneys to child migrants corresponds with an anti-democratic 2009 ruling by then attorney general Michael Mukasey that immigrants have no constitutional right to a defense attorney in deportation proceedings.

According to the ruling, “There is no Fifth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel in removal proceedings” because “there is no valid basis for finding a constitutional right to counsel in removal proceedings.” Deportation hearings are not protected by the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee to legal counsel since immigration courts are considered civil, not criminal cases.

The ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle filed a lawsuit on July 9 in federal court arguing that minors are not given the right to due process if they are denied representation by an attorney.

In a related development, immigrant rights groups in New Mexico sued the Obama administration to provide information on the “expedited removal process” against families with children interned at a remote Department of Homeland Security detention center in Artesia. Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the groups hope to expose the federal government’s attempt to expedite the deportation process and ignore asylum requests from families fleeing violence in Central America.

Another massive family detention facility has opened in Karnes, Texas, where allegations of sexual abuse are rampant, and a 2,400-bed facility is scheduled to be opened in Dilley, Texas.

“Over the past several months, the Obama administration has overseen a dramatic increase in its practice of locking up mothers and children,” said Melissa Keaney, staff attorney for the National Immigration Law Center.
The lawsuit claims the Artesia camp was built to fast-track deportation hearings, especially cases involving asylum, denying migrants communication with attorneys and giving no notice to migrants about important interviews used to determine asylum requests. According to the groups, mothers have no time to prepare for rushed asylum interviews, and are forced to recount their horrific personal stories, including instances of rape, in front of their children.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/11/12/immi-n12.html