Mandating Parents Provide Lawyers for their Children.

Migrant Children Deserve a Voice in Court By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Children who fled to the United States from Central America must have fair hearings before deportation. -------------------- The NYT editorial board is at it again... Just last summer, children whose parents found it difficult to provide for them in Central America came streaming North, in search of food, shelter and the American way of life.  They found it.  President Obama finally stepped in to say, America will not admit these children.  Stop sending them on the dangerous journey North. Now, the board, in all their wisdom, wants to mandate that before these children can be sent home, as we eventually did years ago with Cuban citizen Emilio Gonzalez, that the parents must pay for an attorney to represent their children.  A few months ago, the parents had no money to feed their children.  Now, they've worked here long enough to pay for an attorney before their children can be properly processed and sent home?   Where are they going to come up with that money? That's why people go pro se, and represent themselves in court.  The editorial board should think twice before mandating people provide for their children what they have very little chance of affording.  Think personal choice:  Lawyers don't work for free, and the family should first purchase food and necessities, not a lawyer. If an American-born anchor baby must be left behind in social services while the family returns home, there should be private incentives provided for transportation, so the child can remain with the family and not stay alone with the United States social welfare system serving as parent and guardian. Of course, I live in the real world.   What do I know?