It is common sense that in our immigration courts, where children fleeing devastating violence abroad often find themselves, kids need lawyers to advocate on their behalf. After all, lawyers go to school for years to understand the nuances of our legal system.
Interpretation
Children facing violence abroad require legal representation in immigration courts.
This quote highlights the importance of having qualified legal advocates for children who are seeking refuge from violence in immigration courts. It underscores the idea that navigating the complexities of the legal system is challenging, particularly for vulnerable populations like children, and that the expertise of lawyers is crucial in ensuring that their rights and needs are adequately represented.
In practice
During a seminar on children’s rights, this quote could emphasize the need for legal support.
Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.
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