Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and others call for a pause on immigration hearings for children — but the alternative poses serious problems, too.
“Anything less jeopardizes the health and safety of those children as well as of your employees, other government staff, attorneys, interpreters and the public at large,” they wrote, in a letter to Attorney General William Barr and James McHenry, director of The Executive Office of Immigration Review. That agency “should not force government personnel to choose between preserving their jobs by going to court”.
The Texas program launched the same week the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a, but it wasn’t intended to address health concerns. Video hearings “still require that children pack on the buses with shelter staff, travel to immigration court, huddle together in waiting rooms, and in courtrooms,” Jason Boyd, director of policy for the nonprofit Kids in Need of Defense. Instead, the new program was an attempt to clear cases on a shorter 60-day timeframe.
Even if a child is lucky enough to get a lawyer, video hearings “may leave an attorney with an impossible choice,” said Boyd. They can “appear in the Houston courtroom where they're better positioned to confer confidentially with their client and provide guidance and support to this vulnerable child during what can be a very stressful experience,” he said, “but in doing so the attorney loses the ability to directly interact with the judge in Atlanta.
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