Why didn’t you hear about Shiloh and other unaccompanied children shelters sooner? As @PatrickMichels reports, the attorneys that represent children are paid by the government with an implicit understanding of staying silent about their circumstances.https://www.revealnews.org/article/the-government-pays-for-migrant-childrens-lawyers-challenge-the-government-and-they-can-lose-their-funding/ …
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Court documents and attorneys say that
@verainstitute discourages its grantees from taking legal action to protect children from ORR’s actions. Do so and Vera may never refer another case to you ever again.Show this thread -
Imagine you’re an attorney representing a 10-year-old who pees on themselves and thus gets sent to Shiloh. The government, through
@verainstitute, pays you and discourages you from taking legal action to challenge the decision to send the child to Shiloh. Do you:Show this thread -
This is an open secret in the unaccompanied child advocate community. And several immigration reporters have known about it, too. I’m so happy that
@PatrickMichels is the first to report this out. I have the feeling this will open up many more horror stories we should know about.Show this thread
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Every single lawyer that continues to take money and and remain silent should be disbarred. They are violating their oath to act in the clients’ best interest. We need a list of names for the
@abaesq to look at, and to be spread far and wide.#disgustingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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