Nonprofits and volunteers cannot keep up with the crush of immigration cases.
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The legal organizations that do exist cannot meet the need of our local communities. For example, as one of more than twenty legal services programs in the San Francisco Bay Area funded to represent noncitizens facing deportation, the University of San Francisco immigration clinic that I help operate has about 350 open and active cases, with a waiting list of more than 200. Some of the other area agencies have even larger waitlists.
Does having an attorney make a difference? Of course. Those in removal proceedings with representation areto win their case than those without attorneys. Broken down further, for those in detention without an attorney only one out of seven avoid removal, while detained people who are represented prevail almost half the time.
It’s not surprising that U.S. immigration laws are often referred to by federal judges as “byzantine.” The Supreme Court recognized those complexities and the importance of knowing the immigration laws ina 2010 case that imposes a duty on criminal defense attorneys to inform clients of the risk of deportation.
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