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"In City of Lawyers, Many Immigrants Fighting Deportation Go It Alone"

"In City of Lawyers, Many Immigrants Fighting Deportation Go It Alone": Yesterday's edition of The New York Times contained an article that begins, "In the heart of Manhattan, amid one of the greatest concentrations of legal muscle in the world, hundreds of New York's immigrant poor are locked up with no access to a lawyer as they fight deportation. Robert A. Katzmann, a federal judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, believes that fact alone should summon the city's legal profession to do more volunteer work in the immigration court system, where no defendant has the right to a court-appointed lawyer, and some of the most vulnerable end up in the hands of fly-by-night operators who bungle cases wholesale."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).