Immigration
Aug. 21, 2014
Stanford Law School lecturer on the front line of immigration 'surge' cases
Rocket dockets are moving immigration cases in San Francisco and Los Angeles dealing with unaccompanied migrant children. Lawyers pitch in to help, but many say they're too swamped to handle the workload.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Small kids cry, babies nurse and families huddle in an overflow room as immigration rocket dockets take off here and in Los Angeles. The controlled chaos in immigration court mirrors uncertainty in the immigration bench and bar over the Obama administration's move to put new unaccompanied migrant children and families with kids at the front of the line for master calendar hearings.
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