When a Denver immigration judge asked a little boy no more than 5 years old if he had an attorney, the boy’s brother, just a couple of years older, stepped forward and held his hand, volunteering for the task.
That scene is burned into Emily Brock’s brain, she said.
Brock, the children’s program deputy managing attorney with the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, remembered sitting in Denver Immigration Court years ago, witnessing the unaccompanied children without legal representation gripping each other as a judge asked them, through a translator, to recount their traumatic journeys to the United States…