Deportation order for 11-year-old girl blamed on a clerical error in US immigration courts.
"The fact the case has been reopened so quickly shows the willingness of the court to rectify the clerical mistake that happened.," Mintz told NBC News Tuesday evening.
Laura's mother, Dora Alvarado, learned her daughter was ordered to be deported because of another mistake. On March 12, she was scheduled to appear three days earlier — March 9. Laura's mother mistakenly thought the court wanted her to show up April 9, since March 9 had already passed. She waited at court all day and was never called. She returned the next day and that's when she found out her daughter had been ordered deported, Mintz said.
“This case fell through the cracks somewhere after the government shutdown,” Mintz told NBC News Tuesday. Aside from mistakes, the rescheduling of hearings during the shutdown has upended lives. Gracia said a client was about to get her final hearing for her marriage-based green card and was looking forward to being able to see her family after 10 years apart. But because of the shutdown, her hearing was rescheduled for a date three years from now.
The same issues that the bar identified in its report nearly a decade ago — inadequate staffing, training and hiring; growing backlogs; inconsistent decision patterns among judges particularly in asylum cases and adoption of video-conference technology that impedes fair hearings — continue to plague the courts, the bar said.
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