90% of migrant children are no-shows at Dallas immigration hearings
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Date: July 23, 2014 10:00PM
Migrant children are no-shows at Dallas immigration hearings
By DIANNE SOLÍS Staff Writer dsolís@dallasnews.com
Published: 22 July 2014 11:01 PM
Updated: 22 July 2014 11:19 PM
The youths were among 20 from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala who were set to appear in federal immigration court Tuesday for initial deportation hearings. But they weren’t there — 18 of the children whose cases were set to be heard didn’t show up Tuesday for court.
It was an absentee rate that federal Immigration Judge Michael Baird said was “highly unusual,” so high that he reset the hearings for Aug. 11 rather than possibly issuing a deportation order.