3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in court
All those parents who brag about what their kids can do at 3-years-old drive me nuts.
If this catches on, how long before law schools switch from the Socratic method to the Suzuki Method?
But we're still working on the "cooperating with other children" thing.
Looks like we've found a Supreme Court nominee that the Republican-controlled Senate would actually approve!
I have a pamphlet, if anybody is interested. "How to avoid the horrors of the modern world by seizing on peripheral points."
I saw that pamphlet. What on earth were they thinking when they chose that typeface? And the color combinations? Terrible!
"Seize the horror firmly by the horns and vault over its back while it passes harmlessly beneath you."
These assertions are so, so, bizarre that I can only assume (hope?) they have been taken completely out of context or otherwise totally mischaracterized.
8: I know it seems crazy, but Texas really does have detention centers for nonviolent undocumented workers, often full of refugees fleeing violence. It's almost unwelcoming.
How Many 5-Year-Olds Could You Defeat In An Immigration Tribunal?
Can we get the detainment camps recategorized as abortion clinics? Bring 'em up to code or shut 'em down.
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Yeah, law schools have never been very good at teaching that one.
8 -- it's more like the guy got forced into a reductio ad absurdum of the government's position on this issue (children don't need appointed counsel in immigration proceedings to comport with due process), and was way too dumb to figure that out but dug in harder. Incidentally,not figuring out that kind if trap means that you are definitionally a shitty lawyer.
In fairness, many immigration lawyers (on all sides most definitely including government lawyers) and judges are stunningly incompetent. Some seem to be barely literate.
In fairness, many immigration lawyers (on all sides most definitely including government lawyers) and judges are stunningly incompetent. Some seem to be barely literate.
So, you are saying that a 3-year-old could probably take 'em.
I would think a weeping 3-year old would be more effective than the most finely hewn legal argument -- or at least more likely to keep the immigration judge awake.
I would think certain 3-year olds are liable to get the whole family deported.
For a more cheering take on immigrant children, here is a review of a book about kcom lairt high here in SF: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/03/24/solving-the-mystery-of-the-schools/
Also much deserved scorn thrown on Cory brooker and zuckerberg.
The Calabat would probably do very well in court by baffling opposing counsel with non-sequiturs. Or announcing that the judge called a recess so that "he wouldn't pee in his undies."
Ha! Go calabat! I think I owe you a video link, dancing kid for dancing kid??? Everything has been so deranged for the last few months, I am completely lost here.
How many three-year-olds do you think it would take to overwhelm the average immigration lawyer?
17. A lot younger than that, apparently.
When we had our first set of CPS investigations last summer (because yay, ask children in school to report any abuse or neglect they've experienced after the child abuse prevention puppet show but don't bother asking them WHICH mom was involved with that and if it's perhaps the one whose rights were terminated for just that behavior and then you were adopted, but wevs) they decided Selah was too young to interview, but she insisted on talking to the investigators at great length about Batman. I hope they took good notes.
I can't keep track of the different reboots and series myself.
23 so wonderful. V good friends' child now about 6 mos old, can't wait for the nonsensical long convo stage. Small children you are close to but who are not your own are so delicious. Much pleasure so very much less work!
These detention centers are atrocities.