The United Kingdom appears to be the only country where legal counsel is provided by the government’s legal aid agency free of charge to all migrants in detention.
Also remember that (like most of these countries) the US does have legal aid services available for this purpose in various cases.
> They just separated them from their parents, and expect a toddler in a detention center to somehow shit out an attorney.
How does anyone find an attorney? For young people their parent or guardian would typically do it.
In the cases where they were separated from their parents (a stupid, short-lived policy that has been discontinued) the attorneys were often finding them.
> Meanwhile the government is represented by an attorney.
What would you propose they be represented by?
> Can you even sue a toddler? Like, you can sue the parents sure, but can you think of another situation civil or criminal that has a toddler representing themselves?
Why not? Typically there is no reason to because they typically have no assets and are not legally responsible for many of their actions. But suppose you have a toddler who is the legal owner of some inherited property where someone is injured.
In practice they would have a parent or guardian deal with it (or hire an attorney), but that's also normally what happens with immigration.
And the people who can't afford an attorney get shafted. But that's par for the course. Even in criminal cases the time and resources available to the public defender are totally inadequate.
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/right-to-counsel/detained-migra...
The United Kingdom appears to be the only country where legal counsel is provided by the government’s legal aid agency free of charge to all migrants in detention.
Also remember that (like most of these countries) the US does have legal aid services available for this purpose in various cases.
> They just separated them from their parents, and expect a toddler in a detention center to somehow shit out an attorney.
How does anyone find an attorney? For young people their parent or guardian would typically do it.
In the cases where they were separated from their parents (a stupid, short-lived policy that has been discontinued) the attorneys were often finding them.
> Meanwhile the government is represented by an attorney.
What would you propose they be represented by?
> Can you even sue a toddler? Like, you can sue the parents sure, but can you think of another situation civil or criminal that has a toddler representing themselves?
Why not? Typically there is no reason to because they typically have no assets and are not legally responsible for many of their actions. But suppose you have a toddler who is the legal owner of some inherited property where someone is injured.
In practice they would have a parent or guardian deal with it (or hire an attorney), but that's also normally what happens with immigration.
And the people who can't afford an attorney get shafted. But that's par for the course. Even in criminal cases the time and resources available to the public defender are totally inadequate.