King Hall Immigration Law Clinic Featured in KQED's California Report

The UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic figures prominently in a report on minors in immigration custody produced by National Public Radio station KQED for the program California Report. The report details the cases of two Immigration Law Clinic clients. (A longer version of the report may be heard here.)

Many undocumented minors are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement on an indefinite basis and lack any means of challenging their incarceration, explains Holly S. Cooper, Associate Director of the Immigration Law Clinic.

"Without any judicial or third-party oversight, ORR is both the jailer and the person who decides whether the kid is getting out," said Cooper. "That's a really dangerous power dynamic that is developing."