Wednesday, August 4, 2010
ACLU/SC & Partners File First Class-Action Lawsuit On Behalf of Immigrants with Mental Disabilities
The six immigrants represented are from California and Washington, and all have been diagnosed with severe mental disabilities, such as schizophrenia and mental retardation. Several have been found incompetent to stand trial in other court proceedings.
The widespread failure of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to implement such a system and provide court-appointed attorneys to those with serious disabilities was recently documented in a report jointly published by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch.
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Debate over 14th Amendment
Critics say the 14th Amendment rewards undocumented immigrants by letting their kids become citizens once born in the U.S.
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