Your media-of-choice hyperventilating over this ??!!-----Damning UCLA New Report Reveals the Biden Administration’s Unlawful Treatment of Children in Immigration Courts

Data show that tens of thousands of children have been ordered deported, most without legal representation or a fair day in court - Hayley Burgess, UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, burgess@law.ucla.edu

Los Angeles, CA – A damning new report released today by the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law finds that the Biden administration has failed children in immigration court under its watch. 
The report’s key findings include:

• In a five-month period in FY 2022 alone, almost one third of immigration court cases initiated by the Biden administration–more than 80,000 in all–were against children, over 30,000 of whom were under the age of 5, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
• Studies show that unrepresented unaccompanied children are at least five times more likely to be ordered removed than children with access to counsel...
• The vast majority of removal orders entered against children are for failure to appear: Approximately 72% of removal orders against families on the Los Angeles and Boston Dedicated Dockets were issued in absentia, with over 48% against children, many under the age of six. Worse yet, 86% of removal orders issued against unaccompanied children were for failure to appear...