Immigration
Jun. 24, 2014
As underage migrants pour into the country, lawyers hope for assistance
A 14-year-old girl's encounter with the immigration system illustrates the legal quagmire awaiting solo underage migrants who may be unrepresented in court despite meritorious asylum or other claims.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
As unaccompanied children arrive illegally by the thousands from Central America, drawing headlines and overwhelming makeshift holding facilities across the Southwest, their plight led an East Palo Alto legal aid lawyer to recall a 14-year-old girl from El Salvador called Josefina. The girl's encounter with the immigration system illustrates the legal quagmire awaiting solo underage migrants who may be unrep...
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