Post Story about Deportation Hearings

The Washington Post has a story today that looks at the difficulties facing the many immigrants in removal proceedings who lack an attorney.  This has long been an issue but one worth remembering.  As the story observes,

In immigration courts, there are judges and prosecutors, evidence and witnesses. The consequences can be great: banishment, separation from family, perhaps persecution at home. But unlike in criminal courts, the government does not provide free lawyers for the poor. And in what court officials deem a great concern, a growing number of people in immigration court have no legal counsel: Of more than 314,000 people whose cases ran their course in fiscal 2005, two-thirds went through on their own, or pro se.

Click here for the full story.

KJ