Report of in absentia removal orders of unaccompanied children ring true in a system not functioning fairly.

Sunday, March 8th, 2015

The Los Angeles Times reported on March 6 in an article, “7,000 immigrant children ordered deported without going to court,” that, well, 7,000 immigrant children were ordered deported without going to court. The article attributes this this to “notices sometimes arrived late, at the wrong address or not at all. In some cases, children were ordered to appear in a court near where they were initially detained, rather than where they were living.” My experiences with the handling of asylum…