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When children don’t have enough battle wounds to show, they may not have any way to successfully defend their cases and will most likely be “removed” back to their home country, often without a trial.
In other words, that fourth sentence in the well-known Miranda rights—“If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you”—does not apply to them. Therefore, volunteer organizations have stepped in to do the job. Either pro bono or at very low cost, nonprofit organizations find attorneys to represent “alien” children.
His aunt paid the coyote $4,000. They left at dawn. Manu explains that boys cost $4,000 and girls $3,000. Why? Because boys are the worst, he says, smiling wide.
