04/05/2018 Tungol Law America Now, Deportation, Documents, Entertainment, Headline News, Immigration, lawsuit, Politics, Reform, Research "John Oliver Talks Immigration Courts on Last Week Tonight"

The immigration courts in the US have a lot of problems. In the video below for Last Week Tonight, John Oliver breaks them down one by one — everything from the massive discrepancy in the deportation rate between cities to the fact that people who can’t afford a lawyer are often forced to represent themselves.

“The truth here is we are going to need big changes,” says Oliver. “Ideally the biggest change would be to make the courts fully independent from the DOJ, which is something that can’t happen overnight or, under this particular congress, probably at all.

“But at the very least we should absolutely fix the stupidest problem of all, which is that nobody, particularly children, should have to represent themselves in these courts — because children do not understand the law.”

April 1, 2018 – The Immigration Courts

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