Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”To ensure this isn’t a sham process, asylum officers and judges must be trained in child-sensitive interviewing techniques to help elicit information from fearful, traumatized youngsters. All children must also be represented by a volunteer or government-funded lawyer. Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit that recruits pro bono lawyers to represent immigrant children and whose board I serve on, estimates that 40 percent to 60 percent of these chi
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It emphasizes that it is easy for children to get immigration status.
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It reminds readers that young, innocent lives are being harmed by failed policies.
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It helps to convince readers that immigration laws for children should be changed.
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It helps to convince readers that more lawyers are needed to defend children.