{"id":2412,"date":"2014-03-06T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:23:40","slug":"response-to-a-february-2-2014-washington-post-article-on-immigration-court-in-my-reading-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2014\/03\/06\/response-to-a-february-2-2014-washington-post-article-on-immigration-court-in-my-reading-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to a February 2, 2014 Washington Post Article on Immigration Court in my reading journal\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/in-a-crowded-immigration-court-seven-minutes-to-decide-a-familys-future\/2014\/02\/02\/518c3e3e-8798-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/in-a-crowded-immigration-court-seven-minutes-to-decide-a-familys-future\/2014\/02\/02\/518c3e3e-8798-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judge Lawrence Burman \u2013 average of 7 minutes per case, 57 immigration courts in country, deportation system backlogged with 350,000 cases, 40 % appear in court without representation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike doing death-penalty cases in a traffic court setting,\u201d one immigration judge said in testimony before Congress about the job.<\/p>\n<p>This is hard to read and I felt like\u00a0I might cry, especially after meeting families that have been in these situations.\u00a0 There are so many stories like this one I\u2019m sure.\u00a0 So many families broken apart.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even imagine but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019ll stop trying.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to [return home and] act like I don\u2019t know what I do know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-Savanna Lester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/in-a-crowded-immigration-court-seven-minutes-to-decide-a-familys-future\/2014\/02\/02\/518c3e3e-8798-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html Judge Lawrence Burman \u2013 average of 7 minutes per case, 57 immigration courts in country, deportation system backlogged with 350,000 cases, 40 % appear in court without representation. \u201cLike doing death-penalty cases in a traffic court setting,\u201d one immigration judge said in testimony before Congress about the job. This is hard to read and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2014\/03\/06\/response-to-a-february-2-2014-washington-post-article-on-immigration-court-in-my-reading-journal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Response to a February 2, 2014 Washington Post Article on Immigration Court in my reading journal\u2026<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemalamexico-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}