I recently ran across this article discussing the issue of undocumented children and if they deserve lawyers when facing deportation. ( http://www.newsmax.com/US/immigration-children-deportation-lawyers/2013/09/23/id/527209 ) Julie Woods the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that these children should be provided with lawyers when going before an immigration judge. Illegal immigrants must pay for their own lawyers, public defenders are not provided to them. Wood writes into the Wall Street Journal arguing "For a nation founded on the principles of due process and access to justice, we are grievously violating both when it comes to deporting undocumented immigrant children."
My question is are illegal immigrants protected by the rights guaranteed to American citizens? Not children whom were born in the United States to illegal immigrants... Are our rights extended to those who have come to the country illegally, and have been here for an extended period of time?
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