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The Deportation Racket
Con artists are preying on undocumented immigrants in detention

Hauser, Micah
http://harpers.org/archive/2018/09/the-deportation-racket/

Publisher:  Harper's Magazine
Date Written:  18/09/2018
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

Undocumented immigrants have long been targeted by swindlers who promise shortcuts through the labyrinthine corridors of immigration law. What happened to Duran is most commonly called notario fraud, a catchall term that refers to a scam in which an individual misrepresents his or her qualifications to handle immigration work.


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Since deportation is a civil procedure and not a matter of criminal law, immigrants facing removal from the country have no right to legal counsel. Duran knew she needed help. According to the American Immigration Council, having an attorney makes it ten times more likely that a detained immigrant will win her case, but the representation rate hovers at just 14 percent. Duran's prospects were worse still. Between 2007 and 2012, judges at the Oakdale Immigration Court, where she would appear, heard 42,521 cases -- the majority of Louisiana’s immigration docket -- and ordered nine out of ten people deported. A mere 6 percent of detained immigrants had a lawyer by their side.

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