UIM Immigration System: A Case Study

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As most advocates and scholars protest, the immigration system is known to be difficult to understand and affects unaccompanied immigrant minors tremendously. Since 1999, congress considered providing free legal counsel to UIM (King,2013). There has been support for free legal counsel since the human rights standards have been developed while providing procedural rights for children and refugee alike in certain circumstances (King,2013). However, for UIM it is difficult to participate in immigration proceedings and this often leads to removal or

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