Commentaries by Geoffrey Hoffman

The Immigration Court is a Legal Paradox

The Immigration Court is a Legal Paradox

Geoffrey Hoffman

September 5, 2014 01:56:23 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey Hoffman, of the University of Houston Law Center, discusses the problems that the immigration court creates for unaccompanied alien children...The law is no stranger to paradoxes, contradictions and strange coincidences. Immigration courts however present a special...

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