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Migrant children are no-shows at Dallas immigration hearings
Eighteen of 20 missed their initial deportation hearings, prompting the judge to reset their court date for August.
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Migrant children are no-shows at Dallas immigration hearings

By DIANNE SOLÍS
DIANNE SOLÍS The Dallas Morning News Staff Writer
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Published: 22 July 2014 11:01 PM
Updated: 22 July 2014 11:19 PM

Marcos and Crisly, Ana and Blanca, Fabiola and Maria Antonia.
The youths were among 20 from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala who were set to appear in federal immigration court Tuesday for initial deportation hearings. But they weren’t there — 18 of the children whose cases were set to be heard didn’t show up Tuesday for court.
It was an absentee rate that federal Immigration Judge Michael Baird said was “highly unusual,” so high that he reset the hearings for Aug. 11 rather than possibly issuing a deportation order.
Baird said he was concerned that the children may not have received proper notice of the hearings from the government. Attorney Lynn Javier, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, agreed that it was “prudent” to reset the hearings.
The children are among about 100,000 juveniles who have entered the U.S. without a parent in the last two fiscal years, according to Homeland Security. None of the children set to appear on Tuesday had an attorney, a swelling reality that inspired Dallas Catholic Bishop Kevin Farrell on Monday to appeal to attorneys to step up to provide free services.
The judge’s decision drew praise from local immigration lawyers. Paul Zoltan, an immigration attorney in Dallas, called the decision “classy,” saying the children would have time to get attorneys and any mailing errors could be corrected.
“It gives the kids another chance,” he said.
In general, 46 percent of juveniles don’t show up for their immigration court hearings, according to Capitol Hill testimony recently from Juan Osuna, who directs the Justice Department’s immigration courts. The Executive Office of Immigration Review faces a backlog of 375,000 cases and was ordered a few weeks ago to make unaccompanied juveniles the top priority.
The high number of no-shows Tuesday raised questions about whether the children had enough time to prepare for the hearings or whether they and their families made calculated risks not to appear in court.
Nine out of 10 unaccompanied juveniles who do not have attorneys will be deported, according to a new study by the Syracuse, N.Y.-based research center Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Many interviewed have said they faced gang recruitment and gang violence in their home countries. But under the U.S. laws for granting asylum and restrictive definitions of persecution, those cases are difficult to win.
“I would imagine things are moving too quickly,” said Renato de los Santos, who has a long history of working with youth programs in the League of United Latin American Citizens. “I wouldn’t be prepared in just few weeks, let alone a few days.”
The Dallas Hispanic Bar Association has recently signed up 160 attorneys to represent the children and has begun training sessions for them.
Monica Lira Bravo, an immigration attorney and co-organizer of the pro bono effort, said so many unrepresented minors underscores the need for lawyers. Once a juvenile is represented, the attorney will receive notices of court hearings, she said.
“This shows why it’s important for the children to be represented, to have counsel in proceedings,” Lira Bravo said.

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Report: 90% of illegals skip immigration court appearances; 135,000 will go missing

By Paul Bedard | June 26, 2014 | 11:35 am

New Study Shows Teens Are Starting To Illegally Enter US

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Border patrol agents believe at least 40,000 more young illegal immigrants will cross the border this year. Gigi Barnett reports.



New Study Shows Teens Are Starting To Illegally Enter US

Border patrol agents believe at least 40,000 more young illegal immigrants will cross the border this year. Gigi Barnett reports.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Michael Bonfigli/The Christian

Ninety percent of the mostly-teen illegal immigrants flooding over the Mexico-U.S. border won't show up for their immigration court hearing, meaning at least 135,000 of the youths will simply vanish into the country this year alone, according to a key House committee chairman.
House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who on Wednesday held a hearing to raise national security concerns about the new wave of illegals, revealed Thursday that many of the teens are placed with relatives, including parents who are in the U.S. illegally, and then ignore court orders to appear for immigration hearings.
Once they are picked up by immigration officials, “they are given a court date, expected to return, a year or more later,” said the Virginia lawmaker. “The overwhelming majority of them, more than 90 percent, do not return for their hearings and as a result we have a problem,” he added.
Goodlatte estimated that 150,000 of the youths will cross the border this year, 10 times last year’s number, and virtually all are claiming to be crime victims in their home countries. He spoke with reporters at a media breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
The congressman will join several others next week in a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to size up the situation. But he said that the president must begin enforcing the border and institute a zero tolerance on illegal immigration. “They should be required to leave,” he said.
Several Republicans have charged that President Obama is ignoring laws on the books that require tighter control of the border. As a result, said Goodlatte, illegals think they have the green light to enter the United States.
“It’s causing even more illegal immigration to occur,” he said.
“Many of them show right up at the border stations and say, ‘Here I am, let me into the country,’ ” said Goodlatte. “Others who are apprehended crossing the border imediately pull out of their pocket what to say,” he added.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.

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