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The mass deportation

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policy has the

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immigration system

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scrambling to keep up.

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What kind of scramble

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is this for people

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in your line of work?

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Yeah, I can't tell you

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times are difficult enough

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like where I work

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at the Community Immigration

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Law Center.

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There are lawyers

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who are fighting every day

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and it's a really tough job

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just normally between

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the volume and the stories

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and the humanitarian side

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kids and families.

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But now the government is

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just changing everything they do

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and it is a

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very difficult situation

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to try and represent somebody.

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If you don't have a lawyer

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right now, I can tell you have

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100% chance of being deported

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because the rules

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have changed so much.

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The ground

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on which we are standing

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in immigration court

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is changing every day

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or every week.

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So, without a lawyer

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without the legal system

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that we have

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and I know lots of people

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will say

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'Well, the government isn't

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paying attention

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to court orders.'

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They are, for the most part

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in immigration court

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where we work.

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But as those all change

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you don't even know

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what the rules are going

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to be the next day

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for example.