Book chapter
Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System
01 Jul 2010
Abstract
This report says that immigrants to the US with mental disabilities are often unjustifiably detained for years on end, sometimes with no legal limits. People with mental disabilities were prevented from making claims against deportation -- including claims of US citizenship -- because they were unable to represent themselves. Some of the people interviewed did not know their own names, were delusional, could not tell time, or did not know that deportation meant removal from the US. Tables, Figures, Appendixes.
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- Title
- Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System
- Creators
- Sarah MehtaAlison ParkerBill FrelickMeghan RhoadShantha BarrigaJoseph AmonClive BaldwinDanielle HaasJoe Saunders
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Identifiers
- 991021895794604721