Immigration Court Cases: A Case Study

Since the Mexican Drug War began in 2006 between the Mexican Government and the Drug Cartels, there has been a minimum of 47,000 people killed from December 2006 to September 2011 (CNN Library, 2014). Because of the drug-related violence, there’s been an increase number of women and children entering the United States undocumented. However, due to the effects of the United States’ immigration laws to deport large numbers of undocumented immigrants without a proper hearing, children are now suffering these effects of immigration enforcement by losing their parents, losing their education, and losing their security. These findings shows that the immigration court system needs to take a good look and review laws and the procedures on what is and is not working for the children’s immigration court hearings. …show more content…
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Not only is there an overwhelming number of immigration cases, but there are that many immigrants who need to wait months or years for a hearing, more than 57,000 children are put into deportation proceeding and given a hearing before an immigration judge (APLA, 2014). Due to a law signed by George W. Bush in 2008, children cannot be legally deported without going through the court first because of the way it was designed in order to prevent child-trafficking (Tuckman, 2014). However, according to the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, the courts are permitting children to have the chance of an “initial court hearing within three weeks” (Taxin,