Children Seeking Asylum
Children seeking asylum have a special need for volunteer legal representation. A new program providing it is the Juvenile Immigrant Representation Project:
According to the ABA, some 5,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were detained in the United States in 2001 alone. Some come to this country seeking asylum for the same reasons that adults do, but many are abandoned, orphaned by war, or brought here by smugglers. And unfortunately, despite facing deportation, they don't have the right to counsel -- which is where volunteer legal help comes in.
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