Fordham Law School Professor Joseph Landau spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the difficulty child immigrants encounter in the American criminal justice system.
A central problem for the children and the families is that they have no right to an attorney at the government’s expense under U.S. law, said Joseph Landau, an associate professor of law at Fordham University who specializes in immigration cases.
Deportation “can be a harsh penalty because in many cases removal from the United States has a more dramatic and a more detrimental affect on a foreign national than going to jail,” Mr. Landau said.
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