7,000 immigrant children ordered deported without going to court

*This lack of due process is happening in the U.S., the beacon of democrcy, the shinning city on a hill. “What was a border crisis is now a due process crisis.” The President ordered these child cases to be expedited within 21 days of a deportation order. The process overwhelmed the courts, thousands of children didn’t make their rushed court date becasue the address was wrong, becasue they had moved or becasue they were ordered to appear where they were detained, not where they now live.  VL

By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times

More than 7,000 immigrant children have been ordered deported without appearing in court since large numbers of minors from Central America began illegally crossing the U.S. border in 2013, federal statistics show.

The high number of deportation orders has raised alarm among immigrant advocates, who say many of those children were never notified of their hearing date because of problems with the immigration court system.

In interviews and court documents, attorneys said notices sometimes arrived late, at the wrong address or not at all. In some cases, children were ordered to appear in a court near where they were initially detained, rather than where they were living, attorneys said.

“What was a border crisis has now become a due process crisis,” said Wendy Young, president of Kids in Need of Defense, an advocacy group.

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